We’re All Rebels Now

On By kingsjesterIn Politics

Well, what was yesterday’s match that set off a  media firestorm and a Conservative website Flame War?  Obama’s nuclear arms naivete?  Those despicable Tea Party Racists (sarc)?  Michele Obama’s White House Garden?  Nope.

Yesterday, Gov. Bob McDonnell declared April Confederate History Month in Virginia.  Oh, the horror of it all.  Imagine that.  Trying to remember part of the history of America in Virginia, of all places, where the most battles were fought in the War Between The States. 

 Gov. McDonnell’s actions brought down a firestorm from the unofficial Office for the Enforcement of Political Correctness and Revisionist History.  I know. That’s not a real Government Office.  But, just wait.  it will be.

Late yesterday, Gov. McDonnell said that it was a “major omission” leaving out slavery in his declaration.  He further added:

The failure to include any reference to slavery was a mistake, and for that I apologize to any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed…
Duly noted, Bob.  Yes, slavery was evil.  But, was it any less evil 30 years before in the Northern states?  And in Europe and Africa before that?
Moving on. Yesterday saw another Civil War erupt on  the top Conservative website for thought and discussion.   On this particular thread, they ran the following poll:
 Should McDonnell have proclaimed “Confederate History Month”?
Yes 48% (1,384 votes)
No 44% (1,290 votes)
Unsure 8% (227 votes)
Total Votes: 2,901
As you can see, the majority of Americans who voted on the poll, agreed with Gov. McDonnel.  However, the thread, being based on a contentious issue, also inspired such classy comments as:  

Southerners have long been an embarrassment to conservatism and the Republican cause. Supporting a confederate history month doesn’t help that, not one bit. No one that supports this can call themselves an American.

They should be remembered only when trying to identify the grave to spit on.

The same clueless individual made these comments…and he claims to live in Georgia.   Stay classy, Skippy.

The same people who want to ignore this part of history are the same bunch of self-convinced psuedo-intellectual Liberals who do not want the American people to remember their history.  Significant facts like the Progressive political philosophy of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR (thanks, Glenn Beck).  Or the fact that one of the issues fought over in the Civil War was the right of states to secede from the Union.  They would rather America’s history be swept under the rug or revised so that nobody’s feelings get hurt, thus freeing these usurpers to radically change this free nation into a mirror image of their own failed ideology.

What they didn’t count on was the courage and strength of will of freedom-loving Americans to fight against the unbridled expansion of Government intervention in their daily lives.  We’re all Rebels now.

Sources:  hotair.com, thinkquest.org, abcnews.com

 

6 thoughts on “We’re All Rebels Now”

  1. Laura in Maryland's avatar Laura in Maryland

    “They would rather America’s history be swept under the rug or revised so that nobody’s feelings get hurt…”

    The PC police don’t care about anyone’s feelings. They are only interested in controlling the message and perceptions. White southerners are the last group of people that are allowed to be disparaged in free speech (or what’s left of free speech).

    I’m not a big Civil War buff, but I seem to remember reading that there was a regiment from Upstate NY that returned home during the war because the racists didn’t want to help free the slaves that they feared would take their jobs. While the North couched their rhetoric as anti-slavery, the South fought for States Rights, not slavery. Slavery was just the last straw for both sides.

    Great post…keep ’em coming.

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  2. lovingmyUSA's avatar lovingmyUSA

    Excelent post, I hate that our country’s history is being slowed eroded and allowed to drift away on the tides of time…I may be a northerner, but I am a Rebel at heart…Thanks for the thoughtful essay.

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  4. esthier's avatar esthier

    Thanks. I voted no on the poll (mostly because it’s needlessly bad PR and could have been done better), but I have never been ashamed to be from the South and can’t imagine anything that will make me. The war and slavery were horrible, but that doesn’t mean all the Confederates were.

    I shouldn’t have gone into that thread.

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  5. carbon_footprint's avatar carbon_footprint

    Yes, I learned later that Narutoboy is just a 19 year old kid who is in dire need of a history education.
    Great post.

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