Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:49:56 -0500
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: E F-G


>From a recent issue of a rag called Confederate Underground:

"The Robert E. Lee Birthday celebration at the Georgia capitol building in
Atlanta provoked a furor among genuine Confederates due to the choice of a
yankee feminist as featured speaker.
   Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and her husband, Eugene, are notorious Marxist
historians who claim conversion to Christianity.
   Supposedly, the two veteran radicals also have a new appreciation for
the Southern Cause.
   If Comrade Liz is truly contrite, her lecture gave no hint of repentence
[sic].
   Fox-Genovese declared that 'an ocean of blood should have been spilled
to end slaver,' and, in Gen. Lee's case, 'one hates the sin and not the
sinner.'
   No one in the crowd of SCV members and guests seemed to grasp that
Genovese referred to Southern blood as the fountain of sanguinary
redemption. She received warm applause from the deluded audience....
   A textbook Communist ruse for neutralising [sic] an enemy operation is
to infiltrate the membership, sabotage its function, pervert its purpose,
then convert the group into a Communist front.
   (Madame Fox Hyphen later announced her intention to join the Southern
League!)
  ...[T]he Genovese family stinks of duplicity and intrigue.
   Once a Red, always a Red.
   The only ocean of blood that should have flooded the war was yankee
blood. The entire slave population of the South was not worth one drop of
sweat off Robert E. Lee's brow.
   The shame of the whole sordid affair is that no one had th gumption to
pitch Ms. Marxy-Foxy off Stone Mountain."

The Southern Leauge is a gang of apologists for the Confederacy;
apparently, E F-G's apology is not deep enough for the editorialist.

Doug

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