Southern heritage buffs vow to use the Virginia gubernatorial election as a platform for designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month.
The four candidates for governor have differing views on whether to pay official state homage to the Confederacy, an issue that has been debated for years in the commonwealth.
"We're not just a few people making a lot of noise," said Brag Bowling, a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the oldest hereditary organization for male descendents of Confederate soldiers. "This is not a racial thing; it is good for Virginia. We're going to keep pushing this until we get it."
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To the spokesman I write,
BULL.SHIT.
That's a default comment for white folks - "It's not a racial thing." As if they would be able to identify a racial thing. What is "a racial thing." It is certainly a "white supremacist anti-black thing" - but it's not a racial thing. If they say so. Ah, those feeble little minds. So little room, so little time.
Posted by: Temple3 at April 26, 2005 10:16 AM
I heard this story on WTOP radio and the kick was the number of votes expected to be swayed by this legislation: 9,000! Even if the number is tenfold, 90,000, why?
Obviously, the number of Virginian African-American voters is not counted in this survey.
Posted by: elg at April 24, 2005 06:52 PM