You Racist Bastages

[Snaggletiger]

This piece is from early July.  I just saw a blurb about this in this mornings local paper because they discussed the issue in a County Commission meeting Tuesday. I googlized it to find a little more in depth write up.  BTW, this is out of Ft. Myers, Florida and not our beloved Lee County.  Thoughts? 


The president of the Lee County, Fla. chapter of the NAACP has petitioned the Lee County Commission to remove a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, claiming it symbolizes racism.

The painting that the NAACP’s James Muwakkil finds so offensive has hung in the Lee County Commission chambers for years. The county was named for the late military hero 22 years after the close of the war between the states, according to The Washington Times.

“That painting is a symbol of racism. It’s a symbol of divisiveness, and it doesn’t unify Lee County. It divides Lee County,” Muwakkil said in a letter, the Fort Meyers News-Press reported.

Muwakkil’s petition will force a public hearing on the issue, according to Commissioner Larry Kiker.

“I would be looking for thoughtful conversation based upon the historical value and why it was put there to begin with, mainly because I don’t know too much about it,” Kiker told the News-Press.

Virginia assisted Lee County in obtaining a suitable Lee painting — in 1939, according to the News-Press.

Lee’s position with the Confederate Army had nothing to do with his position on slavery, and everything to do with his loyalty to Virginia.

In an 1856 letter to his wife, Lee wrote, (ACCORDING TO WHAT SOURCE)“In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country.”

He also supported the efforts of his wife and daughter to maintain an illegal school for slaves on their plantation and petitioned slave owners to allow slaves to volunteer for the army, saying he could make soldiers out of any human being with arms and legs, according to Wikipedia.

Despite Lee’s history, every now and then the local NAACP chapter petitions the county to take some action regarding the painting. The last time was in 2007, when it asked the commission to hang a painting of President Abraham Lincoln near Lee’s. The measure failed.

[Godfather]

 

[Saniflush]

That's it. 

I'm starting white history month.

[Snaggletiger]

I'm not a history buff....but I am pretty buff....so I really didn't know those things about General Lee.  But the fact that the NAACP protests his portrait as a symbol of racism, tells me they've done even less research than I have on the man. 

[WiregrassTiger]

I have no objection to this. Lee is a part of our nation's history and the county was named after him. It would seem that is the primary reason that the portrait is there.

If the county did not bear his namesake, I may feel differently.

How would the county leaders and citizens feel about adding a portrait of MLK as a compromise? How would you guys feel about them adding this? That's a better question.

[Buzz Killington]

Bo and Luke Duke wept

[Snaggletiger]

Bo and Luke Duke wept

I always wanted to do Daisy on the hood of the General Lee

[CCTAU]

How would the county leaders and citizens feel about adding a portrait of MLK as a compromise? How would you guys feel about them adding this? That's a better question.

Why? Why must any compromise be met?

If I want to promote communism and therefore want a symbol of one of its most secret supporters, I might hang a pic of MLK.

[Buzz Killington]

I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.

[dallaswareagle]

That's it. 

I'm starting white history month.

Well I heard we have 11- AA-1   Hispanics-0   Asians-0

[WiregrassTiger]

Why? Why must any compromise be met?

If I want to promote communism and therefore want a symbol of one of its most secret supporters, I might hang a pic of MLK.

Really? And you really believe this?

[Kaos]

Really? And you really believe this?

It is the gospel truth.  Funded by, trained by, supported by and driven by communists. 

[Godfather]

I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.

Can you believe the mouth on this guy.

[WiregrassTiger]

It is the gospel truth.  Funded by, trained by, supported by and driven by communists.

While there is no denying that there were, at least, "former" communist supporters that were a part of King's SCLC but its own constitution forbade communism. I do not beleive that King was a communist but we all know that there are sometimes strange bedfellows in political movements.

[The Six]

strange bedfellows

Did MLK like to gangbang chicks?

[AU_Tiger_2000]

I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.

[Townhallsavoy]

While there is no denying that there were, at least, "former" communist supporters that were a part of King's SCLC but its own constitution forbade communism. I do not beleive that King was a communist but we all know that there are sometimes strange bedfellows in political movements.

[Snaggletiger]

MLK was a gay Indian wrestler

[Godfather]

MLK was a gay Indian wrestler

Fuck you , Michael Louis Kingston was good people.

[GH2001]

Did MLK like to gangbang chicks?

More often than you realize. Ask Jackie Kennedy.