Posted on 04/07/2010 4:22:15 AM PDT by Zakeet
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, reviving a controversy that had been dormant for eight years, has declared that April will be Confederate History Month in Virginia, a move that angered civil rights leaders Tuesday but that political observers said would strengthen his position with his conservative base.
The two previous Democratic governors had refused to issue the mostly symbolic proclamation honoring the soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War. McDonnell (R) revived a practice started by Republican governor George Allen in 1997. McDonnell left out anti-slavery language that Allen's successor, James S. Gilmore III (R), had included in his proclamation.
McDonnell said Tuesday that the move was designed to promote tourism in the state, which next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the war. McDonnell said he did not include a reference to slavery because "there were any number of aspects to that conflict between the states. Obviously, it involved slavery. It involved other issues. But I focused on the ones I thought were most significant for Virginia."
The proclamation was condemned by the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus and the NAACP. Former governor L. Douglas Wilder called it "mind-boggling to say the least" that McDonnell did not reference slavery or Virginia's struggle with civil rights in his proclamation. Though a Democrat, Wilder has been supportive of McDonnell and boosted his election efforts when he declined to endorse the Republican's opponent, R. Creigh Deeds.
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Would have to agree. Conservatives need to pick their battles carefully. This is just dumb.
Folks, the Civil War has been over for 150 years . .let’s move on.
Good for Gov. McDonnell! It’s good to see Republicans who aren’t worried about making liberals mad. They already don’t like conservatives, what difference does it make if they don’t like what we do?
The racist NAACP et al, including the women in hats and those with lice cut hair are racist of the first order.
“Folks, the Civil War has been over for 150 years . .let’s move on.”
Folks, Jesus Christ has been dead for over 1,975 years...let’s move on. See how asinine your comment was?
I see nothing dumb about people defending their heritage.
Boo Hoo
Ditto what you said so well.
I would like to ask any American of slave ancestry if they would rather have been born in their “home” country.
Free choice: say — born in 1961, (or 1931 for that matter), — here or The Ivory Coast?
How many would actually answer “Ivory Coast”?
When are we Irish-American gonna get March named for our contributions?
*****
March is actually an official Irish History Month, (I just learned this recently) but it has been overtaken by Women’s History Month.
Is Jefferson Davis the new Jesus Christ? Who knew?
Slavery ended over 150 years ago as well...
“Folks, the Civil War has been over for 150 years . .let’s move on.”
AlanD
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana
good.
any day the race pimps are irked is a good day.
Lalalala......I’m so sick and tired of these idiot blacks that continually bytch and moan about slavery (which I hate) and not having sense enough to know it’s their own DEMONRAT party that has been their slave masters for generations! Wise up you boobs and just think that about 50 short years ago, you’d still be using separate toilets and ridin’ in the back of the bus and had almost no chance of voting and look where you are now. Just be grateful that you’ve come this far with the help of the Republicans by the way, and STFU! This crap is gettin’ old.
There you go again.
Embrace history...don’t run or hide from it. Maybe it will help your outlook on things.
Let’s see where this goes. Hopefully we have found a politician with real balls who won’t kowtow to the nation destroying PC borg. We will see. Most in this situation ultimately get on their knees and beg forgiveness.
I actually had a group of blacks that worked for me once tell me they were Democrats because Lincoln freed the slaves. I asked who said so, and the answer was "our pastor." So I ordered a pizza, we sat down and had a little "training" session using Wikipedia (Republican Party history) as a proof. After the pizza and the training, the comment was ... "Well, ya know ya can't trust that Internet!"
It was good training for ME ... I know what we are up against, first hand. REVEREND Sharpton?
Most of the WWII vets are dead. Lets forget VE & VJ Day. Lets forget about Memorial Day. Come to think about it...lets forget MLK Day also.
I totally agree. We need to stop caring about "offending" Democrats. They never care about offending us.
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