Embattled VA Legislator proproses Juneteenth Commemoration..

[Virginia Dare]

His ass is still trying to cash the check his mouth wrote:


The Virginia lawmaker who caused an uproar last week by questioning the need for a state apology for slavery proposed a measure Monday that would commemorate the freeing of the last U.S. slaves in June 1865.

Del. Frank D. Hargrove Sr., a Republican from Hanover County near Richmond, said he has been deluged with at least 4,000 phone calls and e-mails at his home and office since he inflamed the House of Delegates by saying that blacks should "get over" slavery and that apologizing for slavery was no more necessary than asking Jews to apologize for "killing Christ."

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I think we can all agree that the end of slavery was a good thing," Hargrove said.

Black lawmakers said they are happy to support Hargrove's resolution to celebrate Juneteenth, but not if it is meant to replace theirs, which calls for Virginia to apologize for its role in slavery. The resolution is intended to coincide with the state's celebration of the 400th anniversary of the English settlement of Jamestown, where slaves first arrived in 1619.

"I can't question anybody else's motives," said Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, a Richmond Democrat and a sponsor of the apology proposal. "But obviously that resolution doesn't address the issues that we are trying to address."

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"Virginia didn't have anything to do with the Emancipation Proclamation," McEachin said. "It had a lot to do with establishing slavery here."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012200958.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. Hargrove you are a liar

you and your kind don't think the end of slavery was a good thing.

[TZ]

2. Does Virginia still celebrate.

Lee/Jackson (I think those were the two Confederate Generals) day which used to be ironically on Martin Luther Kings bday holiday? That always got to me..

[Virginia Dare]

3. I think they stopped that a few years ago...

but some counties in Virginia still "celebrate" it. That was the Richmond racists' way of being able to swallow MLK Day, and believe me it was a tough swallow for them.

[TZ]

4. let me guess that..

Virgil Goode's district does....he still has not apologized and says his office is swamped with support..