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#179926 01/26/11 08:20 AM
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I was reading earlier this evening about the Reconstruction era (time after the civil war), and I came across the term red shirts. The red shirts were groups of people who used force to to scare white and blacks. Their purpose was to scare people from voting republican and to weaken the progression of the Black (African American) vote and civil rights. The red shirts worked inconjunction w/ the white-league and Kl-Klux-Klan.

I don't know the intent of the label "Red shirt" in college athletics, but I know that red shirt stood for segregation in the past. Now it's a play on words, knowledge (semantics). Should I be offended? Yes, I am. Red shirt - segregation of available active athletes from the inactive athletes.

How do you feel? It's a shame.

What's even worse is that some Black (African American) people were part of the red shirt movement in exchange for a high profile position......These people are called Clearence Thomas, Sell-Outs ect..... This goes to show, there are self promoting people in every race. We ALL love and hate. Besides envy and jealousy the biggest starter of hate is IGNORANCE.


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From the "Ministry of Truth" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirts_(Southern_United_States)

looks like there were people who wore redshirts in reconstruction era.

Does that have anything to do with the college sports practice of getting another year of participation in span of 5 years?

I doubt it.

It could as likely be connected to the fact that most "redshirt" actors on star trek were killed!

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Redshirt


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How about the fact that the Nebraska football team uses the term “Black Shirts” for their defensive unit. Whats up with that???


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