Posted on 04/07/2010 3:40:28 PM PDT by Hawk720
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) apologized late Wednesday for failing to include slavery in his proclamation declaring April as Confederate History Month. The full text of his statement follows:
Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement today regarding the proclamation of Confederate History Month in the Commonwealth
"The proclamation issued by this Office designating April as Confederate History Month contained a major omission. The failure to include any reference to slavery was a mistake, and for that I apologize to any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed. The abomination of slavery divided our nation, deprived people of their God-given inalienable rights, and led to the Civil War. Slavery was an evil, vicious and inhumane practice which degraded human beings to property, and it has left a stain on the soul of this state and nation. In 2007, the Virginia General Assembly approved a formal statement of "profound regret" for the Commonwealth's history of slavery, which was the right thing to do.
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For the same reason they wear those damn Che T-shirts - ignorance.
Peace is the hammer. The truth will be the anvil. Tyranny will fail.
Beck’s current catch phrase is the best ever ... Keep pounding ignorance in the ground.
When did we start honoring nations we were at war with??????????
Yes and yes.
Frankly, I see no reason for the legislature to issue an apology in my name.
I grew up in a town where the State Capitol had one of the most magnificent collections of Confederate flags ever assembled ~ put there by the soldiers in General Ulysses S. Grants Army ~ so that the war would not be forgotten.
Alas, a Leftwingtard became Governor and he began arranging to send many of them back to SC, GA, NC, etc.
So utterly disgusting. That display was unique; it had ultimate meaning; it was sacred. As school children visiting the Capitol building, we were entitled to fondle those flags.
I want the whole history of the Confederacy taught ~ but mostly as a reminder to the Leftwingtards about what happens when you seek to impose your evil institutions (publicly financed abortion) on the rest of us.
You know, I never hear a Democrat apologize for that genocidal maniac and the Democrat Congress who tried to exterminate the Cherokee. Andrew Jackson tried to ethnically cleanse the Southeast. He had the military forcibly round up Cherokees and take them on a death march to the wilderness. Among the Cherokee 4,000 people out of a population of just 17,000 died on the death march.
If Blacks are due an apology for slavery, the Cherokee certainly are for the attempted genocide.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid should apologize for this atrocity. It is a stain on the soul of the nation and especially on the Democrat Party. Every Democrat politician who attends or speaks at a Jefferson-Jackson Day event should be asked if they support genocide.
BTW, on the way West the Cherokee of Indian ancestry rode on the train. The black slaves walked. Guess who died first?
Your source for that?
Not sure it's on the net though.
It is COMMON KNOWLEDGE among historians.
The Cherokee lost their lands through FORCED SALES ~ just like those people in Connecticut.
Some things never change.
BTW, the Cherokee tribes were fairly wealthy for their time.
Their lands were not bought. The government forced them to trade for wilderness land given to the group and took land owned by individuals. They looted the homes before burning them to the ground. Then the government gave the land to Whites by lottery.
The Cherokee were part of the Indian clearance in the South, but there was also an Indian clearance in the Northern states. Buley covered the big payout in Chicago. The southern clearance was less organized, but payouts occurred.
One of the reason for the Dawes Rolls was to enable the Cherokee, as they organized themselves, to DISQUALIFY what turned out to be 25,000 "others" who appeared to follow them to Oklahoma ~ a large number of whom were grifters intent on stealing Cherokee proceeds from herd and other property sales.
Not everything happened in all places the same way.
The whole idea of moving everyone West was the doing of Thomas Jefferson and the Kickapoo Indians anyway.
Without knowing the germ theory of disease they deduced that Indians living in the presence of whites and blacks were dying at alarming rates so any chance at biological survival required relocation.
You might look up John Metoxen (I believe he's a relative of mine ~ his sister is identified as "Ox In" married to an ancestor). He was a Brotherton, and I suppose technically adopted by the Oneida at the time of the conquest of the Mohicans, and he became quite a challenge to Jefferson and crowd. John advocated removal ~ and all he wanted was Indiana Territory ~ later briefed up to Wisconsin, and for a while he bought into the idea of moving to Oklahoma.
The Cherokee had unfortunately set up shop in an area where Jackson's friends wanted the land. He was less couth than Jefferson.
Still, the folks who walked were the black slaves. The Indians left on horseback and with wagons. In places they actually rode some of the earliest trains in America.
I’m Eastern Band Cherokee and everything I’ve ever read talks about two groups who spent part of the trip on open boats but talks none on trains.
The lady we are descended from was married to a White farmer who was also politically well connected. The 1820 census lists her as Cherokee but the 1830 census lists her, under the same name, married to the same man and 10 years older, as White.
The family story is her husband fixed things for her to stay. He and she also helped groups of Cherokees who were hiding in the mountains.
The Eastern Band is in regular contact with the Oklahoma Cherokees and documentation of the Trail of Tears is pretty extensive including many first person accounts written along the way or shortly after arriving in the wilderness. The Cherokee had a very high literacy rate even back then.
The great advantage a syllabary has is that you don't have to teach people how to spell ~ just how to read and write ~ Korean also uses a syllabary.
BTW, here's how "family stories" work. It seems the Chickasaw had a need to travel East (to escape enemies, a drought, a flood, a crop failure, bad weather, etc.). One of their shamen said the way to figure out where to go was to take one of the horses and just turn him loose, then follow the horse.
They did that and ended up in Mississippi or Arkansas where they settled for a while.
I discovered a branch of our family in the East (who were in no ways self-identified as Indians) had the family prophet tell them "which way West", and she said "cut the horse loose, follow it, and then settle there". So they did, and that bunch ended up in Arkansas.
They lived there for a while (and I guess this is about Hope Arkansas BTW.) They later moved to Tulsa and South to the Texas state line ~ about 50 miles North of where Gene Autry grew up.
The Chickasaw did the same ~ and settled the same area when they moved to Oklahoma ~ so both the families ~ the Chickasaw, and that bunch of my cousins ~ ended up living in the same places with the same family story about cutting the horse lose and following it to that place.
I just did a quick look-up on the Chickasaw and the tribe officially refers to "other stories handed down", so that's gotta' be that one. Other folks who've studied the tribe indicate it to be highly likely since there are definite signs the Chickasaw lived much further West than Mississippi in "historic" times ~ and certainly in prehistoric times.
Anyway, the point being, family stories that get handed down are probably pretty good but you have to know the full context.
Another one ~ we have a tradition that one of the ever so great Grandfather's assembled/built the first locomotive West of the Alleghenies. Took many years to figure out who he was, but we did ~ now, did he just assemble the right of way for the railroad or build the locomotive? You try to combine these stories with facts on the ground things definitely get more confused than ever.
Buhley had the Cherokee riding, not walking, with the blacks crying all the tears as they walked to Oklahoma. The Chickasaw claim a similar "trail of tears" event as they, in fact, simply moved back where they'd lived a century or so earlier.
I have no doubt the differentiation had less to do with actual racial affinity and more with personal appearance.
It is reasonable for McDonnell and Virginia to proclaim a Confederate history month, and reasonable that this proclamation contain a few lines about slavery, and reasonable that the governor add these lines after noting that they weren’t there at first.
Don’t be jumping all over McDonnell for this. Sheesh......
As for McDonnell’s race-baiting critics on the left, they deserve nothing but contempt.
How many of you nay-sayers are even Virginians? Do you even have a dog in this fight? Quit eating our own.
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