Fredericksburg City Council Rejects Petition to Rename Jefferson Davis Highway
VICTORY IN FREDERICKSBURG!
At the conclusion of Tuesday’s Fredericksburg City Council meeting, and
after hearing from dozens of citizens, the motion to appoint a
commission to study renaming Jefferson Davis Highway failed to get a
second, and died on the floor. We heard from many of you who called,
wrote, and emailed City Council and Mary Washington University and offer
our sincere thanks for your efforts!
http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/fredericksburg/effort-to-rename-jefferson-davis-highway-at-standstill/article_96f75c12-0fa0-5023-8771-7f796e6e2036.html
The night of the meeting, about a dozen flaggers gathered outside of the
courthouse, and council chambers were packed. The Mary Washington
University professor who started all of this was the first to speak.
He explained the project and mentioned that the students had researched
Jefferson Davis. He reiterated multiple times that Davis was a “white
supremacist”. The students that spoke regurgitated his words. They
offered no primary documents. One by one, those in attendance heard the
same thing over and over again. It was clear that the students had not a
clue about history, Davis, or the economic impact of this proposal.
The majority of those signed up to speak were local citizens who were
against the proposal. Most of these folks offered primary sources and
one person wrote about the huge economic impact on the city if the name
was to be changed. The professor and students seemed to be clueless as
to the economic impact. The screen in the room showed the faces of the
future, self-righteous and smirking.
Our friend Ms. Teresa Roane gave a beautiful statement, pointing out the
relationship between the Davis family and people of color. She gave the
Fredericksburg City Council two photocopies of letters to prove her
assertions. (Take note, Mary Washington University students…in
research, this is called a primary document) One student, who opened by
describing herself as a communist, dismissed Ms. Roane and the letters,
claiming they were “obviously” written by people with Stockholm
Syndrome. We find it interesting that those who would point their finger
at Jefferson Davis and call him a “white supremacist” do not believe
people of color can think for themselves.
Special thanks to Commander Bill West of the Rev. Beverly Tucker Lacy
SCV Camp #2141 for his work organizing and rallying the troops in
attendance Tuesday night, and kudos to all those who came to stand up
and speak out in support of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway.
It's always good practice to have a few pertinent quotes in hand to counter the predictable anti-Confederate attacks on Jefferson Davis. When the PC claim Davis was a racist, or before they get the chance to, this is the Lincoln quote to use at these public meetings:
ReplyDelete“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
--ABRAHAM LINCOLN, fourth debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas
Another quote of Lincoln that gives the PC fits is this one:
ReplyDelete"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union..." Abraham Lincoln
The PC trot out Stockholm Syndrome a lot these days. The practice has grown over the last year. They do it to discredit any women and minorities who stand against the PC. It's also used to explain away the facts of the past that the PC hate. It's their way of saying anybody disagreeing with the PC agenda must be mentally ill.
ReplyDeleteThis little known blast from the newspaper past is useful in a situation such as this anti-Davis witch hunt when the PC played their 'Stockholm Syndrome' card. It calls Lincoln's mental state into question, so it's a good counter... especially when combined with the two preceding Lincoln quotes:
“A Singular Hallucination”
“It is stated that the President, after the visitation of the Chicago clergymen last fall, turned his attention to Spiritualism, and since then has been controlled in his policy by the revelations of spiritual oracles. Before issuing his emancipation proclamation Mr. Lincoln placed himself in communication with the spirits of Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of the former was decidedly averse to the proclamation but that of the latter favored it. After long and profound consideration of the opinions expressed by the spirits aforesaid, the President concluded to reject the advice of the spirit of Jackson because it was that of a warrior, and adopt that of the spirit of Jefferson because it was the spirit of a statesmen. Hence the proclamation emancipating colored Americans of African descent.”
Indiana State Sentinel, Monday March 16, 1863