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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Neither one did actually. But now that you have mentioned him I suppose that the NAACP will have to pickett Jackson County, Florida next.
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The very act of BEING white will someday be a hate crime.
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).
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.
You racist! /s
They keep this crap up and they’ll turn the entire state in to the old Vidor.
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
Sheila Jackson Lee will mail her protect from the flag station on Mars.
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.
Dey be graspin fo relevancy.
They should have been more concerned with Robert E. Byrd (Deceased - WV).
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.
the black tail is trying to wag the white dog
That’s interesting. Care you name one?
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