Says John Behan at www.vaconservative.com: “Allen pushes Senate peers for apology over lynchings.” This is an interesting article. Says Behan: “Three days into Black History Month,U. S. Sen. George F. Allen of Virginia renewed efforts Thursday to have the Senate formally aplolgize for its failure to move against a wave of lynchings that swept the South and much of the rest of the country from the 1880s until the 1960s.”
That seems reasonable enough. But read the fine print. Read the comments on this one.
From ‘Anonymous’: Wonder if Sen. Allen will publicly repudiate the Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of his heroes, his son’s namesake, and founder of the Klan?”
As in THE Klan? Well, I looked it up. Sure enough, the Confederate cavalry officer did, in fact, found THE Klan. In fairness, though, apparently he repudiated it not long afterwards. He was a whiz-bang horse officer, though. Doesn’t seem to be any debate about that.
From: “The Jaded JD”: “Not a surprising move from a United States Senator positioning himself for a run for the presidency in 2008. I wonder whether the effort will work for those of us who remember the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s front-page article by Jeff Schapiro on November 1, 2000, entitled “Allen Lambasted About Civil Rights.”
From ‘NovaKev72’: “Allen is in full CYA mode. I think the biggest obstacle for Allen should be the outrageous Confederate History Month proclamation he made during office. He went well beyond any bromides about “honoring heritage” into basically connecting his supposed fight against the federal government with the CSA’s.”
My advice? Senator Allen needs to get himself a good horse. It’s going to take a good one to put the distance he’s going to need between the Stars and Bars and where he needs to be.
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