Hell, if he was on McCain’s ticket there’d be freepers coming out of the woodwork to praise his great heritage and lauding his family who were great Americans fighting for their freedom against the evil Lincoln during the War of Northern Aggression, blah, blah, blah.
ACK.
Leaving aside, for the moment, that Webb isn't a Republican and that he's a jerk: If he were a Republican, you would not consider him qualified for the Vice-Presidency simply because of his ancestry?
Is that what you're saying?
“Hell, if he was on McCain’s ticket there’d be freepers coming out of the woodwork to praise his great heritage and lauding his family who were great Americans fighting for their freedom against the evil Lincoln during the War of Northern Aggression, blah, blah, blah.”
LOL! Hyperbole much? I get your point, though. Prejudice tends to run deep but I’m going to try to explain what it is you don’t understand anyway.
Confederate Memorial Day is the day we have our little family reunion. We meet at this little church cemetery where most of my family’s burial plots are, going back to just before the Civil War. There are two graves of Confederate soldiers who were my ancestors that I visit.
Imagine for a moment what it’s like to look at graves of your dead relatives, probably good men who simply answered a call, then tell me what I should feel. Am I not to honor their duty and courage simply because of they died on the wrong side of history? Because they made their home in a state that seceded from the Union?
I asked myself those questions and many more as a younger man while visiting those graves. To get the answers, I had to find out more about my family history. It is, in short, a history of a very poor, rural people who worked the log-woods and at times right along-side slaves and freemen. The closest neighbors for miles were black. That remained true until the 60’s. Most of our passed down Southern recipes originated in a black house-hold.
Now why then would by ancestors feel compelled to fight in the war? Perhaps they were conscripted or perhaps they joined out of a sense of duty. I don’t know. Either way, I bear no grievances towards them. They have my respect. I take a sense of duty in adopting their spirit, if you will. Their nature. Their willingness to give the powers that be the finger. The rebel in them.
Given all that, blacks and whites live, work and play in closer quarters here than pretty much anywhere else in the country. My mayor is black. I’m not sure what the problem is with folks who share your opinion.
I certainly wouldn't be one of them. Here in Virginia we get close up view of this slime. He takes the creep factor off the scale!