White Nationalists Praise Virginia Decision on "Confederate History Month"

Virginia Governor Proclaims April as “Confederate History Month” to Praise of White Nationalists

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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has proclaimed April as “Confederate History Month” without condemning slavery – a move that was met with support from the members of the “white nationalist hate group” Stormfront.

Washington Post: McDonnell’s Confederate History Month proclamation irks civil rights leaders
– Washington Post reports: “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.”
– “The two previous Democratic governors had refused to issue the mostly symbolic proclamation honoring the soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War. McDonnell (R) revived a practice started by Republican governor George Allen in 1997. McDonnell left out anti-slavery language that Allen’s successor, James S. Gilmore III (R), had included in his proclamation.”
– Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s Web Site: Confederate History Month
– Dot.Comments: “Civil War, Confederacy, Virginia, McDonnell”
— “RealConservative” states: “This is not a question of left or right, conservative or liberal, black or white.The Confederacy is in the history books as a misguided and failed experiment and that is where it should remain.Treason and racism should not be honored…this is an insult to those who sacrificed for the ideals of Democracy and Justice for All.”

Virginia Governor McDonnell’s move was popular with the “white nationalist hate group” Stormfront forum members.

One Stormfront forum member wrote “After living through a decade of attacks against the Confederate battle flag and school administrators suspending students who wear Dixie regalia, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) is, like a true Johnny Reb, fighting back.”

Another Stormfront forum member wrote “For 8 years we went without it, but its back again. Any WN [white nationalist] ought to consider themself [sic] a confederate – my people are from the North, but we all know where our allegiances would lie today.”

On March 29, 2010, Stormfront forum member Daniel Cowart pleaded guilty to a terrorist plot that sought to kill 102 Americans, including beheading 14 black Americans.

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August 28, 2009 – Virginia: Call for End to Racial Hate and Division at Robert E. Lee Memorial

We Have A Responsibility
— Jeffrey Imm in Arlington, Virginia: “We have a responsibility to challenge those who would use symbols of division to continue to spread hate and to challenge our shared values of equality and liberty. Reverend Timothy James of the Disciples of Christ recently stated that ‘for African Americans the confederate flag is a system of terror, oppression, separation, and racism.’ We shouldn’t need to be reminded of this. We have seen the use of the Confederate symbol of division used over and over again in our nation. We have seen the Confederate symbol of division used by the Ku Klux Klan. We have seen the Confederate symbol of division used by white supremacist organizations. Most recently, we have seen the Confederate symbol of division in the tragic terrorist attack in June on the Holocaust Memorial Museum. In Virginia and throughout our nation today, there are over 90 Neo-Confederate hate groups that use that symbol of our past divisions to spread hate and to attack our shared values of equality and liberty.”

August 28, 2009: R.E.A.L. Event Challenging Racial Supremacism — Robert E. Lee Memorial “Arlington House”

DC: Witnesses Say Holocaust Memorial Museum Attacker Wore Confederate Soldier’s Cap

South Carolina: Confederate Flag Causes Christian Convention to Cancel

Minnesota — Report: “Old South Slavery Defender to Speak at Conference”

South Carolina: “Symbol connected to hate should be rejected”

South Carolina: ACC moves tourneys over Confederate flag dispute

Mississippi: The Tangled Web of Hate — Neo-Confederates and White Supremacism

Maryland: Halt to Distribution of Brochures with Confederate Flags in Schools

Atlanta: “Stone Mountain: What confederate lovers can learn from the Germans” — Stone Mt links to KKK — “Soulfest” laser show displays confederate carvings

“Dear President Obama: Please Don’t Honor the Arlington Confederate Monument”