Wait a cotton-pickin’ second!! I am happy Abraham Lincoln had decided not to hang the leadership of the Confederacy, but I don’t think he wanted citizens to wax their cars. The U.S. placed a military cemetery on Robert E. Lee’s family property. That was gesture worthy of 14th century Florence and reverberates today. Let a private group rebuild Davis’ home. Would taxpayers be expected to place vinyl siding on Timothy McVeigh’s house? Just because one wore levis and a windbreaker and the other dressed as a Kentucky colonel doesn’t mean the country is responsible for the latter’s Home Depot bills. There must be plenty of rich, crypto-confederates willing to restore old Jeff’s crib. While I fully support the preservation of history in thought and material, I would think African-Americans have a real beef on this one.
April 25, 2006
Jefferson Davis home rebuild draws criticism
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Rick Guy/The Clarion-Ledger
sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29.
Civil rights groups, budget hawk decry congressional plans to appropriate money for restoration
Clarion-Ledger Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The former home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina, should be rebuilt as quickly as possible, say many Civil War buffs as well as officials at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
But civil rights groups and at least one congressional budget hawk decry congressional plans to provide money for rebuilding Beauvoir, the majestic house in Biloxi built in the 1850s that served as Davis’ retirement home after the Civil War. Damage to the home amounts to at least an estimated $25 million.
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History appears to support my side of the argument…
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I decided to mention one foreign traitor because his case involved fish.
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