One of the respondents to my new flag e-mail address had this contribution to offer:
I suggest the following as more accurate names for your new organization:
- "South Carolinians for the Revision of South Carolina History for the Mollification of Some South Carolinians"
- "South Carolinians Who Hate All Things Having to do with Confederate History"
- "South Carolinans for the Obliteration of All Things Having to do with Confederate History."
Thank you for considering one of these names which more clearly state the purpose of your new organization.
When people are so thoughtful, but their suggestions lack something, how do you let them down easy? Here’s the way I did it:
Well, they’re all a bit long.
And they’re all grossly inaccurate.
And they lack a certain pizzazz.
Other than that, I love ’em.
I don’t want to discourage people who are trying their best, you know. But if it’s all the same, I’ll stick with SCAASC, for now.
Some people might take your name as an insult to the NAACP.I would suggest tweaking it to South Carolinians for the Advancement of South Carolina.
Well, but that still sounds like an NAACP knockoff. I did come up with it, after all, to stress that a NATIONAL organization that only concerns itself with people of one subset of the population is going to have trouble getting traction in a racially sensitive conversation among South Carolinians, especially when it comes on all coercive.
Practically speaking, some much simpler name would probably be better in the long run.
You’re right,you need something that could easily fit on a bumpersticker in bold letters.
Bumperstickers can be pretty effective at pushing a cause.Remember “Save the Fox”?
How about “Give Us All Your Money And Do What We Say”?
How about, “You and your heritage of slavery LOST. Get over it.”
This slogan has the advantage that Republicans, the modern day political inheritors of the “Lost Cause,” have already used a variation to try and bury their political opposition.
If you give me all your money, you don’t HAVE to do what I say. I’m a reasonable kind of guy.