memories of the deep , dark south

I am just a quiet unassuming dog with the ability to type.....these tales or tails were overheard by the fire pit in the third person vernacular......in February of 1989 the USS Luce went into dry dock in Pascagoula Mississippi for 6 months.....there is a daily ritual onboard ships that are in port or dry dock that is called sweepers........"sweepers, Sweepers Man your brooms" is the command over the IC....and everyone that is "on duty" that day has to sweep the various compartments they are responsible for and to basically take out the garbage from every trash can and haul everything to the pier dumpsters or the fantail......well the Captain of the LUCE in 1989 was Cdr Lance A. Waters.....LA LAW as he liked to call himself.....well he thought it was be funny and perfectly fitting to play DIXIE over the loudspeakers during SWEEPERS every day.....since we were in the deep south of course.....and one sailor from Brooklyn....a guy who didn't particularly like LA Law, sent an anonymous letter to the Captain posing as an African American sailor and proclaiming to be deeply offended by the playing of DIXIE on many levels...it reminded him of slavery, and was also the rallying cry for the rebels that tried to secede and defeat the US Government....the sailor went on to say that he was next going to contact the NAACP and the Department of Defense........interestingly enough....DIXIE was never played during sweepers again.....this story came back to me while watching the riots in Charlottesville Virginia over the weekend and then again listening to Presidents Trumps remarks......I am NO Nazi.....I don't like the KKK and the KKK hates me and my religion....they also took Joey Ramones baby away.....but I saw fist fights in the street in Virginia.....there were definitely two sides fighting....and yes America...they are both guilty.....neither side had God on their side as Bob Dylan would say.......more on the deep south as I sought out these other stories I have "overheard".........Martians of the future....I am concerned the NSA may be eavesdropping.....we'll talk offline.