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Display of Robert E. Lee Portrait Called Racist by Local NAACP
Breitbart ^ | 8/15/134

Posted on 08/16/2013 10:19:12 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

The NAACP in Lee County, Florida wants to picket the county over a portrait of General Robert E. Lee that hangs in the commission chambers because they deem displaying Lee's image to be racist. "It's a symbol of racism and division," Lee County NAACP President James Muwakkil said. According to Fox 4, "Muwakkil sent a letter to Lee County commissioners in early July, asking them to take down the portrait, but they voted to keep it up." On Sunday, Muwakkil fired off an email saying, "General Lee did not believe blacks should hold any positions in government." Muwakkil is reportedly "brainstorming with the state NAACP President ways to move forward, which could include a sit-in at the chambers, picketing and protesting." The state NAACP is supporting Muwakkil's efforts.

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KEYWORDS: blackhistrionics; blackpolitics; dixie; histrionics; leecountyfl; naacpcrybabies; racebaiting; racecard; robtelee
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To: reg45; kidd
IIRC, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson did also.

Neither one did actually. But now that you have mentioned him I suppose that the NAACP will have to pickett Jackson County, Florida next.

61 posted on 08/16/2013 11:21:16 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Impala64ssa

N oxious
A gitators
A ttacking
C aucasian
P eople


62 posted on 08/16/2013 11:24:31 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The very act of BEING white will someday be a hate crime.


63 posted on 08/16/2013 11:24:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: 0.E.O

Was Jackson even a slaveowner? I know he held a position as a teacher at a military school in Virginia (I believe that school was a predecssor to VMI). I was not aware that he even owned any land or a plantation.

Obviously, another historical fact that escapes race baiters: most of the people who fought on the Confederate side of the war were NOT slave owners, mainly because slaveowners were in the minority, and slaveowners were largely exempted from Confederate conscription laws passed as the war went on (mostly because leaders feared large numbers of increasingly rebellious slaves being held on planatations where there was no male presence to keep order).


64 posted on 08/16/2013 11:27:21 AM PDT by stremba
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To: Impala64ssa

Lee didn’t believe blacks should hold positions of power? Neither does the democrat party. If fact the democrat party didn’t even want their votes until the republicans passed the Civil Rights Bill.


65 posted on 08/16/2013 11:27:28 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

66 posted on 08/16/2013 11:29:07 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Impala64ssa
NAACP, shove it up your


67 posted on 08/16/2013 11:29:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: max americana

You racist! /s


68 posted on 08/16/2013 11:30:00 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

They keep this crap up and they’ll turn the entire state in to the old Vidor.


69 posted on 08/16/2013 11:30:39 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Anyone that is a member of the NAACP
70 posted on 08/16/2013 11:31:36 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Delta Dawn

Born in K-e-n-y-a

He was born in K-e-n-y-a

repeat ad nauseum..to the tune of Born In The U.S.A


71 posted on 08/16/2013 11:32:11 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: MeganC

Sheila Jackson Lee will mail her protect from the flag station on Mars.


72 posted on 08/16/2013 11:33:16 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: M Kehoe
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73 posted on 08/16/2013 11:34:03 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: stremba
Was Jackson even a slaveowner?

Yes. He was a slave owner the day he died.

I know he held a position as a teacher at a military school in Virginia (I believe that school was a predecssor to VMI). I was not aware that he even owned any land or a plantation.

Most slave owners didn't own plantations. Slavery was very much a middle-class institution and most slaves didn't work in the fields. They worked in the houses as maids, cooks, gardeners, grooms, what have you. The number of slaves that Jackson owned at any one time varied, but it was as many as seven or eight.

74 posted on 08/16/2013 11:36:37 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: ScottinVA
ahem...../s



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75 posted on 08/16/2013 11:42:53 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Dey be graspin fo relevancy.


76 posted on 08/16/2013 11:59:03 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: Impala64ssa

They should have been more concerned with Robert E. Byrd (Deceased - WV).


77 posted on 08/16/2013 12:00:47 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I once fired a guy for sleeping in the janitor’s closet instead of working. His mama was head of the NAACP so he was reinstated and I was called on the carpet.


78 posted on 08/16/2013 12:34:30 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Impala64ssa

the black tail is trying to wag the white dog


79 posted on 08/16/2013 1:14:13 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: NKP_Vet

That’s interesting. Care you name one?


80 posted on 08/16/2013 2:33:11 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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