by Ray Rahman | 11:49 am, September 27th, 2010
After making April Confederate History Month Virginia’s Republican governor Bob McDonnell has decided to cancel the event for next April.
McDonnell made his announcement at a conference titled “Race, Slavery, and the Civil War,” which was being held at Norfolk State University.
Slavery was an evil and inhumane practice that reduced people to property,” the first-term governor informed his audience at the historically black college. “It left a stain on the soul of this nation.
These comments echo similar ones McDonnell made in April during the thick of the Confederate History Month controversy. He later issued a written statement in which he apologized to “any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed.”
Now, the the Republican governor faces another offended and disappointed group: The Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization that promotes Confederate History Month in the few states in which it’s recognized, claim that “the vast majority of citizens of Virginians support Confederate History Month.”
“Our organization is terribly disappointed by this action,” said Brag Bowling, the “commander” of the SCV’s Virginian division.
He added:
Nobody’s ever been able to reason with me and tell me why we’re honoring Yankees in Virginia. The only northerners in Virginia were the ones that came to Virginia and killed thousands of Virginia citizens when they invaded.
Rightardia thinks that conservatives who live in the South need to get over the Civil War. The South started the civil war and paid a heavy price for the insurrection.
More people died in the Civil War than all other US wars combined. It was a terrible and shameful period of US history.
The war would have been over by 1863 if Lincoln had hired a more able general than George B. McClellan. Most historians indicate the South had little chance of winning the war because the North-East was the economic powerhouse of the country.
While the South was making hand-made canteens out of wood and using muzzle loading rifles, the North had a railroad infrastructure, the telegraph, and repeating rifles that fired rounds. Union canteens were made of galvanized metal and mass produced.
The Civil War was a fools-errand for the confederacy. We congratulate Governor McDonnell for coming to his senses and canceling Confederate History Month.
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McDonnell made his announcement at a conference titled “Race, Slavery, and the Civil War,” which was being held at Norfolk State University.
Slavery was an evil and inhumane practice that reduced people to property,” the first-term governor informed his audience at the historically black college. “It left a stain on the soul of this nation.
These comments echo similar ones McDonnell made in April during the thick of the Confederate History Month controversy. He later issued a written statement in which he apologized to “any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed.”
Now, the the Republican governor faces another offended and disappointed group: The Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization that promotes Confederate History Month in the few states in which it’s recognized, claim that “the vast majority of citizens of Virginians support Confederate History Month.”
“Our organization is terribly disappointed by this action,” said Brag Bowling, the “commander” of the SCV’s Virginian division.
He added:
Nobody’s ever been able to reason with me and tell me why we’re honoring Yankees in Virginia. The only northerners in Virginia were the ones that came to Virginia and killed thousands of Virginia citizens when they invaded.
Rightardia thinks that conservatives who live in the South need to get over the Civil War. The South started the civil war and paid a heavy price for the insurrection.
More people died in the Civil War than all other US wars combined. It was a terrible and shameful period of US history.
The war would have been over by 1863 if Lincoln had hired a more able general than George B. McClellan. Most historians indicate the South had little chance of winning the war because the North-East was the economic powerhouse of the country.
While the South was making hand-made canteens out of wood and using muzzle loading rifles, the North had a railroad infrastructure, the telegraph, and repeating rifles that fired rounds. Union canteens were made of galvanized metal and mass produced.
The Civil War was a fools-errand for the confederacy. We congratulate Governor McDonnell for coming to his senses and canceling Confederate History Month.
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