Posted on 04/09/2010 6:27:16 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
Edited on 04/09/2010 6:46:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
President Barack Obama says Virginia's governor made "an unacceptable omission" when he proclaimed it Confederate History Month without mentioning slavery.
"I don't think you can understand the Confederacy and the Civil War unless you understand slavery," said Obama, the nation's first black president. First lady Michelle Obama is descended from a South Carolina slave.
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I say Obama’s leaving Reagan out of the reason why the Cold War ended is ‘an unacceptable omission’
I don’t think you can understand the Democrat party of today without understanding slavery and opposition to civil rights legislation in the 60s. Remember, it was Al Gore Sr. who filibustered the civil rights act. Furthermore you can’t understand the Democrat party without understanding the KKK. It was democrat Bedford Forrest who founded the vile organization. And it is the Senate’s senior member who was a Grand Klegel in the Klan.
Didn’t BHO just recently bow to a current slave-holder? The King of Saudi Arabia?
BFLR
He should get out more — they already added the perfunctory “slavery is bad” language. It is unfortunate that some of us are so certain that slavery is bad that we sometimes for get that others have to hear it over and over.
It’s like when some of us forget that we are supposed to care about the color of people’s skins.
The omission was a mistake.
There should be an immediate inclusion decrying the stain of slavery as well as a pointed reminder that black people were sold into slavery by their own people.
This should immediately be followed by a prayer that the people of color who are currently being enslaved by other people of color around the world be liberated and freed, just like whitey did...
If it was a Democratic governor there wouldn't be a Confederate History Month proclamation.
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