Comments on: Black South Carolinian Senator Fights for Confederate Holiday

By: salongo

salongo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:56:25 +0000

As aSouth Carolinian let me just say..”YOU ARE A COMPLETE IDIOT”

By: Ethel

Ethel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:02:04 +0000

It is noble to want a unified America, nevertheless right is right and wrong will always be wrong. It is neither honorable nor Christianly to celebrate the evil of slavery that was perpetrated against people of color. Slavery in America was a sin in the sight of God because it was in conflict against the basic tenet of His commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself. In this light, Sen. Ford cannot negate the fact that the dead confederate soldiers do not deserve favorable recognition of their fight to do evil to black people and to keep them in the heinous condition of bondage. Today, you would have to be blind not to see that judgment is underway in America, for it shall reap what it has sown. Only repentance, not a holiday, may help to unify this country, if it’s not already too late.

By: Jacquie

Jacquie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:35:35 +0000

you filed this in the right place, jb. “are you serious” was the first thing i thought when i read the headline.

By: FredDouglas

FredDouglas — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:13:35 +0000

Confederate Holiday?
Sorry Mr. Ford, we may have been “physically” oppressed, but what you’re suggesting is simply impossible. Pay homage to dead Confederate soldiers? Not even if my life depended on it. What is up with people from the South? “Mr. Charlie” got yall twisted for real. And for those that think I’m lying, take a trip down there and monitor how Blacks act…………..it’s sad. Born and raised in the South, but I had that YT education, constantly being reminded “you’re not from around here”, thing is, I was. Just never accepted the way others portrayed or catered to Mr. Charlie and Co.

By: silver

silver — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:37:16 +0000

Who the h@ll elected Uncle Ruckus?

By: Johnny Ward

Johnny Ward — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:04:06 +0000

I DO NOT THINK THEY SHOULD BE DIS-HONERED, BUT TO HAVE A DAY THAT HONORS PEOPLE THAT DID NOT WANT TO BE PART OF AMERICA IS IDIOTIC!

By: James Amps

James Amps — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:28:37 +0000

I guess the Germans should make Nazis heroes to their country right? I’m not at all surprised by this. Nothing in politics surprises me anymore. I’m sure the Confederate flag holiday will make the entire country have a bar b q and go out and waive the flag. Blacks, Whites, Hispanics and Asians will celbrate like the 4th of July…oh what a day it will be..united at last.
What a joke!

By: Cerebral

Cerebral — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:50:04 +0000

Here it is 2009 and we still have folks begging to be friends, buddies, pals with folks who would rather see you dead. I thought holidays were to commemorate events that brought about the betterment of mankind. How did a bunch of “confederate” folks fight for the betterment of mankind other than slaveholders? Lord help us.

By: Khufu

Khufu — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:29:23 +0000

Sad. He is extremely misguided in thinking that “honoring” Confederate soldiers will cause the white folks to love and accept him….and I knowthat thenlapel flag that he has on is not a Flag of Black Liberation and Solidarity? Then, again, maybe his logic is ‘if Black folks support THEIR holidays and Black folks honor thirs…they will do the same for us’…after 400 years he still hasnt learned the nature of the SOuthern white…especially in S C….