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As reported by NowPublic's SMK, “Conservative” Republican Governor Robert McDonnell proclaimed April as “Confederate History Month” in Virginia. That really shouldn’t be a surprise from one who also proclaimed his hatred toward gay people in a college dissertation. Why these topic symbols, Confederacy and bigotry matter? These are indications about the person who governs the state in which most Federal workers live, for one thing. Virginia voters intentionally elected this persona.

Now, there may not be anything wrong with celebrating the end of the Civil War, or to have an educated reexamination of the ugliest part of American history. The aim to get tourists to drive around the battlefields (many of which are now shopping centers and commercial developments) is fine. But, “celebrating” the Confederacy with a proclamation, honoring the leaders and soldiers who gave their lives to tear the United States asunder is an abomination.

I have not even gotten to the underlying issue about which the Rebs fought, and that was for slavery, for keeping African American enslaved to work on farms, where they were owned by white people to perform work. These African Americans were dined liberty and freedom by people who were horribly un-American.

So, Governor McDonnell, you want to celebrate that, perhaps you should do it in the public square in shackles where we can all have a good spit.

“McDonnell's Confederate History Month proclamation irks civil rights leaders

By Anita Kumar and Rosalind S. Helderman

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

RICHMOND -- Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, reviving a controversy that had been dormant for eight years, has declared that April will be Confederate History Month in Virginia, a move that angered civil rights leaders Tuesday but that political observers said would strengthen his position with his conservative base."