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In another act of political cowardice, (as in the Zimmerman case), Florida Governor Rick Scott has caved in to those who think Florida politics should be tailored to their special interest. Black politicians put pressure on Scott to deny 3 Florida Confederate veterans, a place in the state's Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial in the state capitol.
The three Confederate veterans were Edward Perry, a former governor; David Lang, who after the Civil War oversaw the reorganization of the state militia into the National Guard; and Samuel Pasco, a former U.S. senator and the namesake of Pasco County.
The excuse given by Scott and his lap dogs is that to be eligible, you have to be a military veteran of Florida ... have been honorably discharged, and played a significant part in the history of the state. These men do meet all these criteria. They are being stonewalled purely by the same pushy belligerence we see so often nowadays from Black radicals, who seem to demand that the whole country adjust everything to meet their agendas.
Here's some of the rather unbalanced complaints put foward by them >>
Adora Obi Nweze, president of NAACP Florida State Conference and Miami-Dade Branch, said she's "frankly appalled" by the effort.
"The Confederacy fought to tear apart our country, in support of savage slavery, in a misguided, hateful attempt to uphold that abomination," she said in a statement, "[and] to have these men honored in a memorial at the state Capitol for their service on the wrong side of history, would be an injustice to the descendants of enslaved Americans and an insult to all Americans who have bravely served our country with honor."
Army veteran Dale Landry, president of the NAACP chapter in Tallahassee, told Capitol News Service in Florida that extending the honor up to Confederate veterans opens up the door to other militaries that fought against the United States.
"The Japanese military, the Japanese army, the Japanese navy, you see? The Germans, the Nazis. I'm sorry, but that's the same to me," Landry said.
What absurdities. The Confederate soldiers were Americans, no matter how distasteful that fact may be to these rabble-rousers. And it is an insult to them and their descendants, and the descendants of all Confederate soldiers, to somehow redefine them as non-Americans, comparable to German Nazis and Japs of World War II. The US govt defined them as US veterans in 1958, and at that time extended all VA benefits to their survivors (no Civil War veterans, North or South, remained alive by 1958).
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, a national group founded in Richmond, Virginia, and based in Columbia, Tennessee, say the recognition isn't about defending slavery, but honoring those who answered their country's call. I agree. This honor of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial, is about the men who served, not about the politics behind it, which came from politicians, who, for the most part, did not serve. What will Americans 100 years from now say about the Vietnam Veterans ? That they should not be honored for having served (58,000 were killed), because of a disapproval of that war's politics ?
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html
The three Confederate veterans were Edward Perry, a former governor; David Lang, who after the Civil War oversaw the reorganization of the state militia into the National Guard; and Samuel Pasco, a former U.S. senator and the namesake of Pasco County.
The excuse given by Scott and his lap dogs is that to be eligible, you have to be a military veteran of Florida ... have been honorably discharged, and played a significant part in the history of the state. These men do meet all these criteria. They are being stonewalled purely by the same pushy belligerence we see so often nowadays from Black radicals, who seem to demand that the whole country adjust everything to meet their agendas.
Here's some of the rather unbalanced complaints put foward by them >>
Adora Obi Nweze, president of NAACP Florida State Conference and Miami-Dade Branch, said she's "frankly appalled" by the effort.
"The Confederacy fought to tear apart our country, in support of savage slavery, in a misguided, hateful attempt to uphold that abomination," she said in a statement, "[and] to have these men honored in a memorial at the state Capitol for their service on the wrong side of history, would be an injustice to the descendants of enslaved Americans and an insult to all Americans who have bravely served our country with honor."
Army veteran Dale Landry, president of the NAACP chapter in Tallahassee, told Capitol News Service in Florida that extending the honor up to Confederate veterans opens up the door to other militaries that fought against the United States.
"The Japanese military, the Japanese army, the Japanese navy, you see? The Germans, the Nazis. I'm sorry, but that's the same to me," Landry said.
What absurdities. The Confederate soldiers were Americans, no matter how distasteful that fact may be to these rabble-rousers. And it is an insult to them and their descendants, and the descendants of all Confederate soldiers, to somehow redefine them as non-Americans, comparable to German Nazis and Japs of World War II. The US govt defined them as US veterans in 1958, and at that time extended all VA benefits to their survivors (no Civil War veterans, North or South, remained alive by 1958).
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, a national group founded in Richmond, Virginia, and based in Columbia, Tennessee, say the recognition isn't about defending slavery, but honoring those who answered their country's call. I agree. This honor of the Florida Veterans' Hall of Fame memorial, is about the men who served, not about the politics behind it, which came from politicians, who, for the most part, did not serve. What will Americans 100 years from now say about the Vietnam Veterans ? That they should not be honored for having served (58,000 were killed), because of a disapproval of that war's politics ?
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...l-of-fame.html