Posted on 12/23/2005 10:21:33 PM PST by HAL9000
LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Attorney General Mike Beebe says a proposed constitutional amendment to ban the sale of slave paraphernalia can be resubmitted for his review.Beebe rejected the proposal Thursday, saying it did not include a copy of the full measure for his review. He also noted several problems with the proposal including that it does not clearly define slave paraphernalia or slave items.
But Beebe told Marquitta J. Corbin of Conway that she can submit the proposal again.
Corbin wants to get the measure on the November ballot but the attorney general must first review the proposal then Corbin will have to get a certain number of voter signatures.
Corbin said she submitted the proposal after seeing a doll in an antique store that she said unfairly depicted black people for sale.
"Why are they going to sell slave paraphernalia for profit?" Corbin said in an interview Thursday. "That's a total disgrace."
Corbin said slave paraphernalia would include anything sold for profit related to the slavery era, and would include photographs and Confederate flags.
In a letter to Corbin, Beebe told her he could not certify the proposal without a copy of the proposed amendment itself.
On Wednesday, Beebe rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to declare the Lost Cherokee of Arkansas a state-recognized tribe. The attorney general's office is still reviewing a proposed ballot title to raise the state's minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $6.15 an hour.
Drew Pritt of Warren, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, said he has submitted two ballot proposals. One would create an elected position for state superintendent of education and another would establish a statewide lottery to help support the schools.
A spokesman for Beebe said Thursday the attorney general had not yet received either proposal.
Corbin is a fascist.
This is just stupid. This is the real violation of civil liberties, here! If something is part of history, so what? And what exactly is slave paraphernalia? If I were the AG I would keep finding fault after fault with this proposal. Then I'd lose it a few times, accidentally throw it away a couple of times. They are trying to criminalize something that is not criminal. I'm going to submit a ballot measure to my AG that says that people who submit ballot measures must first prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they aren't a stupid liberal.
Guess which demographic collects the vast majority of slave paraphernalia and other Black Americana?
..."including photographs and Confederate flags"
I sense a hidden agenda here.
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Beat me to the punch. (An antiques dealer on FR? If you're straight, than that's the end of the world... LOL)
You think?!? Would that ban the sale of union flags and other northern items as well?
"Would that ban the sale of union flags and other northern items as well?"
Of course not, those things represent "freedom"!!
I wanna' sue the guy who invented the "No Fat Chicks" bumper sticker. It offends me.
;-)
Years ago, my mom invited her friend Sharon, a black woman, over for dinner. When Sharon arrived, Mom realized that an old Golliwog doll was slumped on one corner, and hastened to apologize. Sharon cut her off, noting that it was a particularly good example, and asked where she'd gotten it. It had been in the family for three generations or so.
Most collectors of Sambo/minstrel-style racist memorabilia are black Americans who are repossessing their history. The stereotypes once owned them, and now they own the stereotypes. They win. More power to 'em.
I am a married woman (20 years to a MAN)!
More PC crap.
LOL... well, that's the end of the world then! ;-) Merry Christmas to you and your family.
DREW PRITT ?!?!?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA !!!
I've know that psychotic little fudgepacker personally for 6 years, he's been jumping from state to state trying to find a place that will elect his sicko a$$. It's all his "connected" West Virginia family can do to keep him out of prison or a nervous hospital.
Total crap.
Whistling Dixie should be a hanging crime, of course.
Um, no. A civil liberty is a granted right, such as the right to vote. The proposed Constitutional Ammendment is a violation of the right to Liberty--which is the right to do whatever does not violate the rights of others.
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