 |
SwiftVets.com
Service to Country
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Me#1You#10
Site Admin
Joined: 06 May 2004
Posts: 6503
|
 Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject: "Will...Obama...Wreath...Confederate Memorial...?" |
 |
|
Aided and abetted by ABC News, "scholars" continue their all-fronts assault on traditional American values and attempt to "hijack" Memorial Day in their malignant ideological campaign...
| Quote: | Will President Obama Send a Wreath to Confederate Memorial at Arlington?
Scholars Appeal to Obama to End Presidential Tradition on Memorial Day
By KAREN TRAVERS
May 23, 2009
On Memorial Day, President Barack Obama will participate in an annual presidential tradition -- a public wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
But the day may be marred by a brewing controversy over whether President Obama will send a wreath to the cemetery's Confederate Memorial, as presidents have done since Woodrow Wilson.
A group of several dozen university professors and scholars have written a letter to the president asking him to not send a wreath or any commemorative token to the Confederate Memorial.
Click here to read the full text of the letter.
"We ask you to break this chain of racism stretching back to Woodrow Wilson, and not send a wreath or other token of esteem to the Arlington Confederate Monument," the letter states. "This monument should not be elevated in prestige above other monuments by a presidential wreath."
In their letter to the president, the group says that the monument is a "denial of the wrong committed against African Americans by slave owners, Confederates, and neo-Confederates."
The White House did not say whether Obama would send a wreath on Monday.
ABC News - cont'd |
As Miss Travers of ABC News apparently didn't see fit to actually identify the purported (cough) "scholars" in her leftist agitprop, viewing the actual signatories suggests why. Among these "enemies within" infesting academia to its core, one, in particular, stands out...
| Quote: | Shawn Leigh Alexander, Langston Hughes Center, Kansas University
Jeanie Attie, Long Island University, Associate Professor of History
Bill Ayers, University of Illinois, Chicago, Professor of Education
David Barber, University of Tennessee, Martin Assistant Professor of History
Allison Blakely, Boston University, Professor of European and Comparative History; George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies
Roger D. Bridges, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Executive Director Emeritus Joshua Brown, The City University of New York, Executive Director American Social History Project
Vernon Orville Burton, Coastal Carolina University, Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University
Thomas Christie, Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska, Multicultural Administrator
Simone Davis, Mt. Holyoke College, Professor of English
George Ewert, Former Director of the Museum of Mobile
Jonathan Farley, Institute fur Algebra Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz Teaching and Research Fellow
Gordon Fellman, Brandeis University Professor of Sociology
Leon Fink, University of Illinois, Chicago, Distinguished Professor
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
Grey Gundaker, College of William & Mary, Professor of Anthropology
Euan Hague, DePaul University, Chicago, Professor of Cultural Geography
David E Hayes-Bautista, School of Medicine, UCLA
David Hicks, Virginia Tech, Associate Professor of History and Social Science Education Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University, Professor of History and Social Sciences
Ira Katznelson, Columbia University, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History Roger G. Kennedy, National Museum of American History (ret.), National Park Service (ret.), Former Director, National Park Service
Barclay Key, Western Illinois University, Assistant Professor of African-American History
DeWayne Key, Mars Hill Bible School, Florence, Alabama
Peter Knapp, Villanova University, Professor of Sociology
Jonathan Leib, Old Dominion University, Associate Professor of Geography
(More than 40 others signed the letter.) |
My reaction (and utter disgust) with this skirmish in the ongoing culture war is, perhaps, well-represented by commenter "unscrupulousmedia"...
| Quote: | | "day may be marred by a brewing controversy" In who's opinion ABC ? --- Since I haven’t seen this story or any similiar stories on any other major news sites.... it appears only ABC is brewing the racial hatred pot...... So ABC...how does it feel to use a day meant to honor men and women who gave their lives to help build and protect this great county to denigrate other citizens using a one-sided revisionist view of the Civil War as a headline story, does it make your liberal bones tingle with excitement when you stir the racial hatred pot… and CREATE news...cant wait for those inteviews....? |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
LewWaters
Admin
Joined: 18 May 2004
Posts: 4042
Location: Washington State
|
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I guess revisionist historians continue their assault on Southern Heritage by total denial that several Black Slaves and former Slaves fought on the side of the Confederacy and under the very flag deemed "racist" today.
The Southern Confederacy of over a century ago is as much a part of African-American Heritage as it is Whites, who some wrongfully used to promote racism long after the war was ended.
These same revisionists also seem inclined to deny that Blacks also were slave owners in that era.
Slavery is a blight on our history, but the truth of it must be told, if for no other reason than to prevent it happening again.
Another little known fact is that Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, was working towards educating the slaves he inherited for gradual inclusion into society.
Abraham Lincoln, on the other hand, desired removing freed slaves from the country to be relocated to South or Central America.
While Lincoln is considered the Great Emancipator, few realize that the Emancipation Proclamation only declared Slaves free in Southern States not under Northern control. Northern States that had slaves retained their slaves until some time after the Civil War ended and Lincoln was assassinated.
Perhaps Obama should actually take truth and facts into consideration before falling for more destruction of Southern Heritage.
_________________
Clark County Conservative |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
TEWSPilot
Admiral
Joined: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 1235
Location: Kansas (Transplanted Texan)
|
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The goal of the Obama cabal is to destroy as many of our institutions and as much of our history and culture as they can as quickly as they can before the sleeping giant awakens. They constantly sow seeds of conflict among all the groups from the far Left to the far Right to keep us fighting among ourselves instead of joining forces to resist them. So far, they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams.
Does Obama even know the historical significance to the Confederacy of what is now Arlington Cemetary, once the home of Robert E. Lee and his wife and dating back to a blood relationship with George Washington? A better question is, "Does he CARE?"
Historical Information |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
LewWaters
Admin
Joined: 18 May 2004
Posts: 4042
Location: Washington State
|
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It appears Obama came up with a "compromise."
| Quote: | Obama observes Memorial Day at Arlington cemetery
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama avoided a racial controversy on his first Memorial Day in office by sending wreaths to separate memorials for Confederate soldiers and for blacks who fought against them during the Civil War.
Last week, a group of about 60 professors petitioned the White House, asking the first black U.S. president to break tradition and not memorialize military members from the Confederacy, the group of Southern states that supported slavery.
<<<>>>
Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, a customary presidential undertaking on Memorial Day. He also had one sent to the Confederate Memorial there, a traditional practice but not well publicized. Obama also took the unprecedented step of sending a wreath to the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington's historically black U Street neighborhood.
That memorial — to the 200,000 blacks who fought for the North during the Civil War — had been mentioned as a compromise in recent days.
Associated Press
|
No mention of any honor to Blacks who fought for the South.
_________________
Clark County Conservative |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
zinfella
Rear Admiral
Joined: 19 Aug 2004
Posts: 708
Location: Mesa, Az
|
| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 3:23 am Post subject: |
|
|
| LewWaters wrote: | It appears Obama came up with a "compromise."
| Quote: | Obama observes Memorial Day at Arlington cemetery
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama avoided a racial controversy on his first Memorial Day in office by sending wreaths to separate memorials for Confederate soldiers and for blacks who fought against them during the Civil War.
Last week, a group of about 60 professors petitioned the White House, asking the first black U.S. president to break tradition and not memorialize military members from the Confederacy, the group of Southern states that supported slavery.
<<<>>>
Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, a customary presidential undertaking on Memorial Day. He also had one sent to the Confederate Memorial there, a traditional practice but not well publicized. Obama also took the unprecedented step of sending a wreath to the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington's historically black U Street neighborhood.
That memorial — to the 200,000 blacks who fought for the North during the Civil War — had been mentioned as a compromise in recent days.
Associated Press
|
No mention of any honor to Blacks who fought for the South. |
As I would expect, Obama knows nothing of honor.
_________________
No whiners! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
TEWSPilot
Admiral
Joined: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 1235
Location: Kansas (Transplanted Texan)
|
| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 5:18 am Post subject: |
|
|
| It occurred to me that if Obama is intellectually honest, he most likely believes there is integrity and principled disagreement on both sides of the "Arab-Israeli conflict", right? So would it not follow that there was also integrity and principled disagreement on both sides of the Civil War, including on the side of the Confederacy? Both sides represent a part of the American story, our history and our culture. That being settled, there is no reason for him not to continue the tradition of honoring both sides with commemorative wreaths on this Memorial Day, right?....yeah, right. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
BuffaloJack
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 1637
Location: Buffalo, New York
|
| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The best example of racism and non-racism during the Civil War lies with 2 all black regiments coincidentally of the same name. The First Louisiana Native Guard was a Northern all black regiment formed from freed slaves and freemen from New Orleans. The other First Louisiana Native Guard was a Southern all black regiment also formed from slaves, freed slaves, slave owners and freemen from New Orleans. One fought for the Union and the other for the Confederacy. What was the glaring difference? The Union regiment had only white officers. The Confederate regiment had only black officers.
_________________
Swift Boats - Qui Nhon (12/69-4/70), Cat Lo (4/70-5/70), Vung Tau (5/70-12/71) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
