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Posted on 04.23.09 by Danny Glover @ 7:58 pm
Thanks to the power of Google news alerts, a press release about a grassroots group called Save the Redneck found its way to my e-mail box. Like me, the group is irked at elitist actress Janeane Garofalo for her bigoted rant about rednecks at last week’s anti-tax “tea parties.” Save the Redneck wants an apology from her. “We are proud of our redneck culture and do not want to see it stereotyped or attacked. We are striving to bring awareness to, and change, this unacceptable behavior,” group co-founder Crit Callebs said. “Our aim is to set the record straight and celebrate everything positive about being a redneck.” I won’t hold my breath for Garofalo to apologize, but I’m glad to see others are fighting the good redneck fight. I’m part of a movement and didn’t even know it! I especially enjoyed Calleb’s musings about what it means to be a redneck:
We’re definitely on the same wavelength. I went one step further several years ago in an essay I titled “Rednecks Rule,” arguing that “redneckedness is a state of mind to be cherished, not a consequence of culture to be ridiculed.” Anyone can be a redneck if he wants to be. As Callebs says, it’s all about “talking the talk and walking the walk” — whether you have an accent or not. Filed under: Culture and Entertainment and Fishing and Hatin' On Rednecks and History and Human Interest and Hunting & Guns and News & Politics and People and Rednecks and Spotlight Comments:
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“I’m part of a movement and didn’t even know it!”
Same with us Tea Partiers out here.
Google news alerts are helping us find our voice!
Comment by Sissy Willis — April 24, 2009 @ 8:35 am
official nonofficial Redneck anthem.. “Won’t back down” by Tom Petty
Comment by maynardgk — April 24, 2009 @ 8:49 am
http://manholemusic.blogspot.com/ And then there’s Redneck Asceticism…
What’s next? :)
Comment by RiverC — April 24, 2009 @ 9:23 am
Check out the definition of redneck in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture published at Ole Miss. Hits the mark.
Comment by harold montgomery — April 24, 2009 @ 9:27 am
You know, to really ‘Win’ the argument with Non-rednecks, we need to:
First, come up with a PC term for ourselves, like Scarlet-Head-Supporting-Americans.
Second, make sure we use the name Redneck with pride only amoungst ourselves. Do not let non-rednecks use the term.
Third, make all sorts of offended actions against Janeane Garofalo and others for not calling up a SHS-American.
Because ‘Redneck’ is an insult. Unless you are one.
Worked for everybody else…
Josh
Comment by Josh — April 24, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
I lost my accent in college and have a doctorate in psychology but I am still proud to be a Tennessee Redneck. It is a state of mind.
Trey
Comment by Trey — April 24, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
Read about the suprising origin of the term ‘redneck’ in David Hackett Fischer’s great book, “Albion’s Seed” (1989)- it’s not what you might think!
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