My 365, Day 173 - Welcome to Alabama, Part II
When you stop at the Alabama welcome center on I-65 (the one with the Saturn rocket that I mentioned in the previous post,) you'll notice this concrete marker near the entrance to the building. "We Dare Defend Our Rights" is the state motto of Alabama. It was chosen to "interpret the spirit of our peoples in a terse and energetic sentence." Were we New Jersey, perhaps it would have ended up: "We got rights. You got a problem with that?"
The cynic in me says the rights we dare defend would be the rights to own other human beings and oppress people because of their heritage and skin color. However, the history buff in me knows the truth is more complex, that we dare defend our constitutional rights to sovereignty and secession at such times as the union is no longer beneficial to our mutual purposes. Unfortunately, we've historically muddled those rights with an unenlightened view on human rights. But that's a discussion for another day. So let's recap. As you enter Alabama from, appropriately enough, the North, you are told in short order that we are willing to fight for our rights and that you should think twice before testing us on it, because we'll launch your butt to the moon if you cross us. Edited in Lo-Mob using Photocard 3 filter.
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