Posted on 01/31/2008 9:47:17 AM PST by Rebeleye
The thought of having to dignify the legacy of the Confederacy’s only president by driving my car over his highway rather than his decrepit corpse is enough to make me want to vomit...If there is to be a Jefferson Davis Highway it should begin at the African Civil War Memorial and end at his grave, where onlookers can pull over and spit.
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Need I remind anyone that the American Civil War killed 620,000 soldiers and an untold number of civilians – the equivalent of six million dead today. Factoring in population, that’s the same as 33 September 11ths a month, or over one a day. It should be no more controversial to fault the Confederacy for this than it is to fault Al Q’aeda for 9/11. Not only did South Carolina secede from the federal government, it actually attacked it at Fort Sumter. If that’s not a casus beli, nothing is.
And why the insurrection? To preserve the barbaric, pre-feudal institution of human chattel. And who led this shameless rebellion? None other than a man who, upon hearing news of the secession, immediately resigned his seat in the Senate and returned to Mississippi to support a civil war. The difference between Jefferson Davis and the likes of Muqtada al-Sadr and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is one of culture, not morality. As the ignorant bigots who fly the Confederate battle flag are prone to say, this is a matter of heritage and history. Indeed it is, and it should be despised as such.
The Constitution has but one crime it mentions specifically: Treason. Article III, section 3, defines it as: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” By definition, Davis did just that. We have hanged far better men than him.
That anything commemorates this man’s odious legacy as anything other than moral bankruptcy is a grave affront to these United States. Even if one is exceedingly generous in retrospect and acquits him the treasonous cause to which he loaned the greatest of aid (that of political leadership), Davis was still responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. At any point he could have stopped the murderous bloodshed that turned his fellow countrymen on one another by surrendering on behalf of the Confederacy. He did not. Instead he chose to needlessly prolong the conflict. He did this when it became apparent even among the Confederacy’s most daft that his cause was lost. That he was on the wrong side of this conflagration seems almost an afterthought.
If there is to be a Jefferson Davis Highway it should begin at the African Civil War Memorial and end at his grave, where onlookers can pull over and spit. There can be no greater offense to African Americans – and indeed, to all Americans of good conscience – than honoring the commander in chief of a breakaway nation that fought tooth and nail to keep our compatriot human beings enslaved. It is a history that leaves me ashamed to call myself American.
The Jefferson Davis Highway should be renamed immediately not by the federal government, which already has renamed it US 1, but by the State of Virginia and the District of Columbia, both of whom preserve the original name on street signs. Until then I’ll refer to it only as Treason Highway. I hope you do too, lest we really forget the ugliness of Jefferson Davis and the brutality, racism and sedition that compose his legacy.
Ping
LOL, and Lincoln was a tyrant, too....
Drive elsewhere, then.
This is a common historical error of believing that a single issue is acutally the embodiment of the entire zeitgeist. Slavery was a pinprick in the hindquarters of a far larger animal - namely the rights of states versus the rights of the federal government, and their right to secede from the greater union. The first strike of the Civil War was not a gunshot, it was a piece of legislation passed on an unwillining populace. To define the Civil War as a war about slavery is the work of a historical novice, precisely what this guy is (even if I agree with him about the highway).
When non-slave owning Confederates were captured by Union troops, they were asked why they fought, since they had no slaves. Their reply: “Because you’re here.”
Jefferson Davis was not only the Confederacy’s first and only President, but he was also a United States Senator and former Secretary of War. These historically dyfunctional idiots need to back off!
Just another moronic student editorial in a moronic student newspaper. Waste of bandwidth.
Moron.
Jeff Davis Highway runs two ways, let it take your ignorant @$$ back home.
I can't say a highway name has ever made me as angry as this guy is. Although in my home away from home, Durban, South Africa, I'm rather consternated that they are about to rename Point Road as Yasser Arafat Boulevard.
Danny should drive elsewhere, then.
I suggest that Danny boy here not drive on the Jefferson Davis Highway, and instead drive on the Lee Highway “up” the Shenandoah Valley (U.S. Route 11). That’ll really get his goat!
I’m glad we are all one nation. Most of the time. I also think people need to lay off dumping on the southerners. Its part of history. And I dont need a study to tell me where the majority of our ground forces come from. If you dont like it, go back to Martha’s Vineyard.
Still waving the bloody shirt 150 years later.
“...... African Civil War Memorial.............”
Sorry liberal dumba$$.
No Africans fought in the Civil War. It was BY FAR white Christian male AMERICANS of European ancestry who paid the heaviest toll.
And while you're staying off roads in this fair Commonwealth, stay off of Lee Highway.
This person needs some serious hate intervention. Vomit? spit? I would think that if he even drove on it, he should be equally vilified.
Until then I’ll refer to it only as Treason Highway.
No biggie, I'll refer to 'Mein' Kampf only as Angry Ugly Smelly Hippie D**chebag Ignorant Hateful Liberal Scumbag.
If there is to be a Jefferson Davis Highway it should begin at the African Civil War Memorial and end at his grave, where onlookers can pull over and spit. ..............I can think of another Highway from the Vietnam Memorial to Mass..
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