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Thread ID: 5146 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-02-21
2003-02-21 20:16 | User Profile
[url=http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/editorials/ed022003s369190.htm]http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/edi...2003s369190.htm[/url]
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Lincoln's life deserves celebration -- even veneration -- and his visage in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol is entirely appropriate. Davis' life is a cautionary tale -- an example of how talent and connections can fail to do more than produce a discredited, shameful legacy.
While ''Father Abraham'' paced the floors of the White House, worrying about the men dying, the slaves suffering and the Founders' dream shattering, ''Old Jeff'' Davis did all he could to perpetuate the dying, the suffering and the shattering.
Amazingly, the Confederate president still stands with Lincoln in Frankfort, sharing honored space not only with the Great Emancipator, but also with the father of modern surgery, Dr. Ephraim McDowell, the great compromiser, Henry Clay, and Kentucky's greatest New Dealer, Alben Barkley.
It is an honor that Davis does not deserve. It is an honor that should end. Mr. Dyche suggested a number of worthy alternatives for celebration with statues, including Justice John Marshall Harlan, Muhammad Ali and Robert Penn Warren.
We second his motion, enthusiastically, and urge the Governor and General Assembly to move swiftly to topple Jefferson Davis, send him off to another site and consign his veneration to the scrap heap of history, where it belongs.
2003-02-21 20:36 | User Profile
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I clicked the link but couldn't tell if this was merely a reader's letter to the editor or the official editorial position of the paper. If the latter, that is pretty shocking.
Assuming that the views expressed do not reflect the great majority of fine, upstanding Kentuckians, then this little op-ed is a telling testament of how communists have infiltrated key positions in media that influence public policy and opinion.
2003-02-21 20:50 | User Profile
Tex, check the paragraph at the bottom of the piece. They use the editorial "we" to "enthusiastically" agree that Jeff Davis needs to go:
"We second his motion, enthusiastically, and urge the Governor and General Assembly to move swiftly to topple Jefferson Davis, send him off to another site and consign his veneration to the scrap heap of history, where it belongs."
2003-02-24 00:11 | User Profile
Hey, all you good ol' boys, please email [bottom of the article] these smug, slandering sobââ¬â¢s and tell them Jeff Davis will NOT be replaced!
[url=http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/editorials/ed022003s369190.htm]http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/edi...2003s369190.htm[/url]
2003-02-24 03:20 | User Profile
Right now, articles of this nature are for yawning. As if we're supposed to think that viewpoints like these are only found in a university classroom. Seriously, though, you can see how immature and sophomoric writings of this nature are --non-objective and created for the purpose of shouting. You can also sense this in editorials about White nationalists. In one of my N.J. rag papers, right on the heels of Richard Barrett's appearance in Morristown, an op-ed writer spewed the venom onto the newsprint, with the usual over-emotional gibberish that comes from leftist points of view.
Muhammad Ali a candidate for a statue?? Why don't you say who you really would want to see cast in marble--Malcolm X, Angela Davis, John Lennon, et. al. Am I right??