Posted on 12/14/2005 11:59:21 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Jeez.... What are these people's problems. When Chavez died I did a 421 person poll of the folks that worked in the hospital where I was employed. 356= Prize Fighter, 47= Don't know, 11= Political/Race/Human Rights, 7= Actor/Entertainer/Musician.
Well, he's still lying about the "slave owner" part, and he's just stupid about the Chipultipec battle. Jackson was a young officer (not a commander at that time) in a war with Mexico. In wars with Mexico, Mexicans are the ones who get killed. If the war were with Canada, Canadians would have been killed. It's not like Santa Anna hadn't killed teenagers at the Alamo.
He felt that education had nothing to do with his farm worker/migrant way of life.
So let's name a school after him....NOT!
The League of United Latin-American Citizens is better known as LULAC. He doesn't seem to be concerned with the company he keeps.
I suppose in 50 years we can expect Ground Zero in NYC to be named "Mohammed Atta State Park" /sarcasm
In the nineteenth century, prior to the War of Federal Aggression, Virginia law prohibited whites from teaching blacks to read and write. Though Stonewall Jackson was known as an upstanding and law-abiding citizen in Lexington, he routinely broke this law every Sunday.
Though the law was not strictly enforced, Jackson quietly practiced civil disobedience by having an organized Sunday school class every Sunday afternoon, teaching black children to read, and teaching them the way of salvation. There are still churches active today that were founded by blacks reached with the Gospel through Jackson's efforts. Jackson taught the Sunday school class for blacks while he served as a deacon in Lexington’s Presbyterian Church. "In Jackson’s mind, slaves were children of God placed in subordinate situations for reasons only the Creator could explain. Helping them was a missionary effort for Jackson. Their souls had to be saved. Although Jackson could not alter the social status of slaves, he could and did display Christian decency to those whose lot it was to be in bondage…he was emphatically the black man’s friend." – Dr. James I. Robertson
..it won't take that long....you see what's happening to the Memorial now
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What an idiot - and note who's DISAGREEING with him - all Spanish surnames, and even THEY don't want "Cesar Chavez" elementary school! Typical lib, sure that he's only protecting the poor, ignorant minorities by protecting their heritage. Argh.
LULUAC League of United Latin Un-American Citizens
Could it be after Ricardo Sanchez?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Sanchez
Yup, you said it right!
You are right,liberals are so sure that "minorities" all think the same, THEIR way.
Yeah, and some RAT will claim it for Sheila "Don't you know who I am" Jackson-Lee.
Nope they would never have that much class.....it is named after a school board member that died from cancer.
That being said, Stonewall Jackson was from what is now West Virginia, while Cesar Chavez was from Delano, California. Why not name it after a great Tejano, like Juan Seguin?
Or, Jose Antonio Navarro, another Texas patriot.
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