Friday, April 9, 2010

Seriously People?! - First Edition

Welcome to the first edition of what will be a regular segment on my blog: "Seriously People?!"

"Seriously People?!" will highlight some current event that has an element of "Duh!" that just boggles the mind. And I couldn't have scripted a better story to highlight in this first edition - The story of Virginia Govenor Bob McDonnell's proclamation of April as Confederate Veterans Month in Virginia, and his massive backpeddling because he didn't know he'd tick people off so many people. Check out this video:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/04/08/VI2010040804268.html?sid=ST2010040705182

So, O.K. I feel a little sorry for Gov. McDonnell. You know when you get to the dance, you're supposed to dance with the one that brought ya. Well, Gov. McDonnell was escorted to the state house of Virginia in a Limousine bought and paid for by Tea Party Patriots and the group called Sons of the Confederate Veterans. Brandon Dorsey, a member of this group said this the other day:

“We’ve known for quite some time we had a good opportunity should (McDonnell) ascend the governorship,” Dorsey told the newspaper. “We basically decided to bide our time and wait until we had more favorable politicians in Richmond.”

In other words...pay up, Mr. Guvenuh!

But, it really never crossed Gov. McDonnell's mind that issuing a proclamation like this without even a casual mention of slavery would really offend people?...Like most of the African-American's in his state, and many sane White Virginians too? So when asked why he didn't mention it, he said it wasn't "significant" to the proclamation. Soooo, the Confederate soldiers are veterans of a war that was fought because they did NOT want to be told that they could not own slaves. But slavery wasn't a significant enough highlight. Nothing to see here. Except for the fact that Virginia had more slaves than any other state, and certainly had quite a vested interest in perserving the "peculiar institution".

But it wasn't significant enough to mention?...Seriously, Gov. McDonnell?!

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