But plate honoring black soldiers OK
"Texas lawmakers have officially rejected the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ proposal for a license plate depicting a logo that contains the Stars and Bars flag long associated with the Confederate States of America.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board vetoed the plate yesterday, citing the flag’s association with racism.
Opponents also included Texas governor Rick Perry, who said that the state doesn’t “need to be opening old wounds.”
The Sons of Confederate Veterans countered, saying that the battle flag honors Southern history and that members of the group don’t use it to promote racism.
Until three years ago, Texas banned all “political or controversial” license plates, but it now has several politically-tinged plates, including a new Buffalo Soldiers plate approved yesterday.
Davis said it was contradictory for the DMV to approve the Buffalo Soldiers plate, which is designed to honor the peacetime all-black Army regiments that helped settle the West, including most of Texas, after the Civil War. “Both plates honor the veteran, not the cause,” he said.
The group says that it plans to sue the Texas DMV over the rejection. Citing success with similar lawsuits in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, Givens is confident that his group will prevail.
Source
8 comments:
So what are they afraid of a phonie boycott threat from JESSIE JACKASSON and the lefists NAACP Tell them to GO POUND SAND
So basically, the Texas state legislature just spit in the face of every descendant of Civil War veterans who simply want to memorialize their memories just as any other family memorializes its war veterans.
Ummm...YOU LOST!
Get over it.
@9:53- I disagree. The Confederate leadership was guilty of treason. Ever Confederate government appointee and general-grade officer should have been taken out and hung. The whole mess was a top-down propaganda operation. Check the source documents and it becomes clear.
The biggest problem with the South is that apparently, there are no southerners left there.
Robert E.Lee and Stonewall Jackson could give those spneless jellyfish a lesson
"Southern Civil War veterans = traitors"
It appears that Political Correctness has so clouded your perceptions that you obviously do not fully understand the history of the United States.
Annon 1:09 Political Correctness is just another word for SOCIALISM
@1:09- no, you just get the feel good, approved for all audiences version of the Civil War. The treason was in the south. The blatant violation of civil liberties was in the north. Once it started there were no good guys in charge on either side. But the south started it. Based on the massive lie that a free republic could tolerate a system that treated humans as property and survive much longer.
Post a Comment