I attended my first 2 years of college at East Central College in Union, Missouri, a community college. Back then our mascot name was the Rebels, East Central College Rebels. It was okay back then, but my how times have changed.
In February of 2008, the Board of Trustees changed the mascot name to Falcons. Will that should be safe, until the Bird becomes extinct. Will we forget about the history of this bird then? There apparently were too many gender problems with using Rebels, which I can kind of see. I wouldn’t have a problem with it, had they left it at that, but no, they included other reasons for the change. They couldn’t use the symbol of the school without displaying the Confederate Flag!! Rebels were the soldiers of the Confederate War, not the Civil War but the Confederate War. “That’s not who we are!” some said back then. I wonder if they removed the Civil War and the rebels who fought from the history books at this teaching institution? You can change history today by just wiping it out of the books, records, so it never enters the minds of our children.
If those that fought for the South, from rebels to Generals were so bad, were so wrong, then why did we bring them back into our United States? They had too much to offer a united nation, too many resources, talent to separate from a United States, for strength. But now let’s forget the Civil War ever happened.
This might explain a nation’s attitude with accepting the corruption and crimes of Hillary and William Jefferson Clinton. We just forget about their history!
ARLIN REPORT...................walking this path together 