Virginia is racist

Shine up you muskets and put on your favorite hating minorities shirt Virginia Governor Bob McDonnells has re-instituted April as Confederate History Month something the two previous Democrat governors wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole because of the obvious implications of racism. McDonnells claims he signed the proclamation back into effect; apparently it’s been quietly ignored by Virginia since 2001, for the money, “the move was designed to promote tourism in the state”. Sure the money will be pouring in from tourist flocking to “The Commonwealth” for Klan marches, Nazi skinhead rallies, and cross burnings. Not to mention white sheet, tar, and feather sales will skyrocket! Anonymous supporters of the proclamation stated, Im sure threw a pointy white hood, “This is something we have brought up to the past few governors but were turned down. We just had to bide our time, the south will rise again.” "We cannot avoid our past," the governor said in a separate statement. This is true we do need to know our past to learn and grow from it, which is why both sides of the civil war are taught nationwide from grade school on up. The Republican Governor made a weak attempt to justify this overtly prejudice action by saying, “it was intended to honor the Confederate sacrifice”. However good ole boy Bob is overlooking the fact that the only thing the confederacy means to a lot of people is hate. Don’t get me wrong Im down with the rednecks, most of the kids I went to high school with had Cowboy Up and Ducks Unlimited stickers on their lifted piece of crap American made trucks but the confederacy is synonymous with the confederate flag and the flag is synonymous with racial prejudice. McDonnell dug himself an even deeper hole of desperate justification by saying "there were any number of aspects to that conflict between the states. Obviously, it involved slavery. It involved other issues". Really other issues, so it was an issue of lifestyle differences between the north and the south? The south wanted to be able to keep the lifestyle choice of owning another human? Or was it an issue of money? The south did want to have to pay their laborers? Normally we give a month of recognition to things we want to honor; black history, breast cancer awareness, women’s history etc. Slavery is not exactly a shining moment for us. It is really one of the biggest black marks on our history. The confederacy is a very sensitive subject filled with lots of hate and we should not be honoring it with a month of remembrance. This is a huge step backwards for the 160 year battle of civil rights.

Anthony

Ps. I know I can’t spell or punctuate correctly