Arrrgghh! Virginia

[fabrisse]

Confederate Month?!? Really?

Look, my great-great-grandfather (I think that's right, my dad's great-grandfather) joined the Confederate Army at the age of 16 to participate as a defender at the siege of Richmond. I think it's correct for the Confederate flag to fly over Confederate military graveyards. Nowhere else, ever.

But to commemorate the Confederacy sends the wrong message. No. It sends the right message. The message it's sending is that the Commonwealth of Virginia -- the cradle of Democracy in the United States -- no longer cares about being part of the larger society. It's sending the message that they are so appalled by gay rights, a black man in the Oval Office, or the promulgation of evolution that they would rather commemorate the most shameful decision of their past (and remember, Virginia was the final state to join the Confederacy and the fight in the legislature was bitter) than be part of the modern world.

Comments

[amberkb.livejournal.com]

Now that I'm studying to be an OTA (Occupational Therapy Assistant), I'm always going to think of April as Occupational Therapy month. :)

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

A much better designation for April. *G*

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

I heard about this.

These folks rant and whine and stomp their feet like children, but they obviously have no clue how serious what they're saying really is. If the Federal government took them seriously, they could be charged with treason.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

I get so frustrated. There's a long history of higher education, higher education for women, and free thinking in the Commonwealth. Why do they deny that heritage and instead go straight for the racism?

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

I think it's because these loud voices are the desperate gasps of a dying breed. Like a sun going nova before it shrinks down to a dead star.