The blacks have been trying to get rid of the Southern flag and anything to do with the civil war south for years saying it was racist…….But now they want us to remember???????????
It just proves a point that WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!
A good question, and one that needs to be addressed in a sober, thoughtful manner, for a change.
In my view, both Confederate History Month and Union Victory Month should be abandoned in favor of Civil War History Month. It is unfortunate that this defining event in US history is still a partisan, regional, and racial battleground. The sad fact is that even though there is no longer anyone left alive who fought in the conflict, there are some who want to keep the wound open.
Why are there some who continue to fight the Civil War? The main reason has to be racism, unfortunately. Virginia’s wing-nut governor is playing to the folks who are scared of America’s changing demographic, and appealing to their racist fears; a particularly easy target in poor economic times. His recent ‘apology’ is disingenuous at best, because the fearful voters he is pandering to know in their tea-bagged hearts where his sentiment lies.
His apology is similar to the strategy an unscrupulous lawyer engages in when he makes a statement in Court that he knows will be stricken from the record. While the inadmissible remark is erased from the trial transcript, the Jury still retains the memory of a statement made to appeal to some prejudice or bias that the Court rightfully realizes is unfair to the case. This is politics-as-usual and should be condemned universally.
However, the answer to one-dimensional, partisan history is NOT to engage in counter one-dimensional partisan history. The answer is to examine the Civil War from an objective, learned way, utilizing all relevant sources to gain an understanding that transcends narrow regional and ethnic bounds and draws us all together into one strong national community.
The politics of divide-and-get-elected by splitting the electorate into easily managed segments driven by ignorance and fear should not be a winning strategy, and all those who engage in such tactics should be voted immediately out of office.
Virginia needs a new governor.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 1:52 pm
A good question, and one that needs to be addressed in a sober, thoughtful manner, for a change.
In my view, both Confederate History Month and Union Victory Month should be abandoned in favor of Civil War History Month. It is unfortunate that this defining event in US history is still a partisan, regional, and racial battleground. The sad fact is that even though there is no longer anyone left alive who fought in the conflict, there are some who want to keep the wound open.
Why are there some who continue to fight the Civil War? The main reason has to be racism, unfortunately. Virginia’s wing-nut governor is playing to the folks who are scared of America’s changing demographic, and appealing to their racist fears; a particularly easy target in poor economic times. His recent ‘apology’ is disingenuous at best, because the fearful voters he is pandering to know in their tea-bagged hearts where his sentiment lies.
His apology is similar to the strategy an unscrupulous lawyer engages in when he makes a statement in Court that he knows will be stricken from the record. While the inadmissible remark is erased from the trial transcript, the Jury still retains the memory of a statement made to appeal to some prejudice or bias that the Court rightfully realizes is unfair to the case. This is politics-as-usual and should be condemned universally.
However, the answer to one-dimensional, partisan history is NOT to engage in counter one-dimensional partisan history. The answer is to examine the Civil War from an objective, learned way, utilizing all relevant sources to gain an understanding that transcends narrow regional and ethnic bounds and draws us all together into one strong national community.
The politics of divide-and-get-elected by splitting the electorate into easily managed segments driven by ignorance and fear should not be a winning strategy, and all those who engage in such tactics should be voted immediately out of office.
Virginia needs a new governor.
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http://propagander.tripod.com/index.html
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Hmmm? Correct me if I am wrong and I don’t believe that I am, but were’nt the Democrats, the party of slavery to begin with? And were they also not the same Democrats who initiated the Jim Crow Laws during the early 20th Century? Oh and were they also the ones who elected a president for 4 terms, but told the Republicans that they could not do the same? And didn’t the Democratic president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt also imprisoned every Japanese-American during World War II? And wasn’t President Roosevelt (D), the one who started the New Deal, where upon African-Americans were forced to give up their jobs to whites? Plus wasn’t it the Democrats who voted down the Civil Rights Act in the house and senate against the wishes of President Eisenhower (R), President Kennedy (D), and President Johnson (D), only to have the Republicans help vote the Civil Rights Act in as law? Was it also not the Democrats and Liberals who used defiling words like Uncle Tom against U.S. Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas? And wasn’t it also those same Democrats who when President Bush, appointed General Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, called Secretary Powell, the White House N- – - – -? What about when President Bush appointed Dr. Condoleeza Rice to lead the National Security Agency, didn’t those same Libs and Dems, call her President Bush’s Aunt Jemima? Well if you said yes, to all of these questions, then you know history, and current events, better than those Libs and dems in the media do.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 2:50 pm
You either gotta accept the whole story or none of it. If you want to remember Slavery lets start with the founding of America this was not a North South deal. It was raised as an issue by Republican Abraham Lincon and was a critical issue to him. But if you want Washington, Jefferson , the Revolutionary War and everything else about the Constitution out of all the books do away with the Slavery Issue. Also their people were selling them, and one of the biggest slave owners was Black. This is called Non-forgivness. Pinchback was Governor of Louisiana during the Reconstruction Period he is Black.
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