City of Little Rock removes "Confederate Boulevard" signs for Clinton Library Dedication

KATV website ^ | 29 Nov 2004

[Rebeleye]

The city of Little Rock has erased "Confederate Boulevard'' from interstate highway signs...The...signs had been the first landmarks many saw after landing at the city's airport. They were changed as Little Rock welcomed presidents, dignitaries and celebrities for the opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library.

[stainlessbanner]

In 1987, Gov. Bill Clinton signed into law Act 116, restating the statutory language that included the reference to the stars on the Arakansas flag that are a commemoration of the Confederacy.

[stainlessbanner]

One more for Clinton:

As noted two years ago by Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin, "In April 1985, Governor Bill Clinton signed Act 985 into law, making the birthdates of Martin Luther King Jr. (the preeminent leader of the civil-rights movement) and Robert E. Lee (the general who led the Confederate army) state holidays on the same day."

Writing in National Review Online, Levin described Arkansas Code Section 1-5-107, which stipulates: "The Saturday immediately preceding Easter Sunday of each year is designated as 'Confederate Flag Day' in this state."

The law continues: "No person, firm, or corporation shall display a Confederate flag or replica thereof in connection with any advertisement of any commercial enterprise, or in any manner for any purpose except to honor the Confederate States of America."

Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/1/17/150009.shtml

[NJ Neocon]

I realize that. I agree. Maybe I did not make myself clear. I was referring to the right of the people of Ark (or anywhere else) to decide they wanted a street named "Confederate Blvd." regardless of my opinions regarding their...well, lets just say regardless of my opinions.

My point on the hypocrisy was that state/local officials who sanction "Confederate Blvd." when the rubes are around but then run for PC cover when Bubba and others come around, are being (no surprise) pathetic and hypocritical.

[NJ Neocon]

Yes. My bad. I apologize for my horrible spelling and subsequent failure to pay attention to the spell checkers attempts to aid me.

Moo moo...

[Constitution Day]

Just teasing. It happens to the most careful spellers among us.

[Pompah]

Spineless yankee jellyfish. Just when you think you can't
possibly loath the "Bubba" crowd more than you do.

"Bothersome." What a Demo-Dork.

[sweetliberty]

You have no idea how much this infuriates me! I am sick to death of the RATs trying to erase even the memory of the Confederacy, and even sicker of so-called conservatives allowing it.

[NJ Neocon]

I always thought Arkansas State Officials would be more of the "brain-dead redneck inbred" types than the "spinless-yankee jellyfish" types.

[stand watie]

NOPE. it's the STUPIDS that march on.

free dixie,sw

[stainlessbanner]

Hey stand watie - thanks for stopping by!

[stand watie]

GM!

free dixie,duckie/sw

[lentulusgracchus]

I own a genuine Clinton-Gore Confederate Flag campaign button.

You need to scan that sucker into a .BMP file and run over to DU and post it every time those droolers get going on the "hateful" Confederate flag.

You won't have to post a word of commentary. They'll go nuts.

[lentulusgracchus]

Mayor Jim Dailey says the Confederate Boulevard signs were "bothersome'' and that the city is continuing to try to, "dispel those things that divide us.''

I wholeheartedly agree, and I herewith insist that every public monument, place-naming, and other reference to the Civil Rights Movement be removed immediately.

America needs more healing, not more "division" and "contention" or reminders of "the things that divide us".

[Colt .45]

You loathe?! You must be a PC neophyte!

[NJ Neocon]

No...I loathe Neoconfederates who worship a "Lost Cause" Mythos that would have, if they could snap there fingers, MY COUNTRY, the USA, destroyed. I loathe the worship of a flag and a rebel "nation" of an army bent on the destructionn on my country.

Its pretty simple.

There is nothing PC about me sir.

[Colt .45]

Sir, you are mistaken. Go back and study your history, especially the Constitutional debates. The South seceeded only after years of Northern interference in their domestic affairs. Also study the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, and why they were written. Figure out where our American Ideology comes from, then you will see that your attitude about "loathing" is strictly pandering to PC.

[NJ Neocon]

I have sir. I have spent the greater part of my adulthood studying not only the Civil war period itself, but the time frame and issues leading up to it. I named my son after after Tecumseh Sherman.

Your claims are superficial at best and represents classic Jubal Early lost cause rhetoric.

Even if there was some merit to your claims, none of this changes that fact that to worship the Confederacy of the Battle Flag is to be "for" the enemy of my country. The Stars and Stripes of the United States of America is my flag, and was the flag that flew at the head of the armies that vanquished the Confederacy. My "loathing" is predicated on this fact. The armies that marched under the banners of the Confederacy sought the destruction of my country. I find the romantic attachment to Confederate trappings tawdry, silly, full of cognitive dissonance, and almost oratorio's.

Almost.

In the end, I support a person's right (or popular local Government in this case) to make its own decisions on this issue.

[NJ Neocon]

I find the romantic attachment to Confederate trappings tawdry, silly, full of cognitive dissonance, and almost oratorio's.

I have no idea where that came from...my apologies. I typed "...almost Traitorous. Almost." I apologize.

Oratorio's? Good grief!