Celebrating our Civil War!!!

Charleston Democrat and South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford is someone who has never been accused of actually thinking before opening his mouth.  He is someone who time and again has been able to find stupidity in something that should be a no brainer to anyone with common sense. If the name sounds familiar to those of you outside of this state, it could be because of what he said a few short months ago.  In a debate over strengthening South Carolina’s illegal immigration law, Sen. Robert Ford "argued" against a new law because he said that “brothers” don’t work as hard as “Mexicans.” This was his "argument" during an official state Senate committee meeting.  He was supporting the position that the state needs immigrants to fill hard labor jobs; such as construction jobs at the new Boeing plant here in North Charleston, because black Americans won’t do the work.

“I know brothers — and I’m talking about black guys — they are not going to do the dirty work at Boeing, to do that hauling and all that building, that dirty work,” Senator Ford said.

He went on to say that “brothers” do not want to perform hard work. “A brother is going to find ways to take a break,”.

He then followed that up with a comment about “blue-eyed brothers” also not wanting to work hard.

Senator Ford opposed the illegal immigration reform bill, which he said would harm the state of South Carolina.

He was immediately scorned by black leaders as well as state Republicans and Democrats, and called on to apologize, but the five-term senator stuck by his comments. He said his remarks taken in full context were not intended to single out blacks for having a poor work ethic.

Well I guess since he hadn't said anything quite so stupid in at least a couple of months; this week Senator Ford took the opportunity to right that particular wrong and set his stellar record straight.

While clutching a Confederate battle flag Senator Ford stepped to the state's Senate podium Thursday with one of the biggest screw faces I've ever seen.  He was then quoted as saying..."it's time South Carolina started thinking differently about the Civil War."

He said South Carolinians are going to see a lot of those (Confederate)  flags over the next four years. He says African-Americans can celebrate that the war brought freedom from slavery.

For those of you that slept during history class, the Civil War started here in the Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861 when Fort Sumter was fired upon. Activities are planned next week here in Charleston and around the south in regards to that milestone 150th anniversary.

In short, the esteemed gentleman from Charleston decided to live up to being a true oxygen thief, since now he wants us to celebrate the Civil War.

To me he sounds just as ridiculous as those people that claim that our Civil War wasn't about slavery, but instead about states rights. Of course, I always ask....."state's rights to do what exactly?!?" 

Some local politicians are backing off of the criticism around "celebrating" the 150th anniversary of the start of the war.  Instead they claim to be "commemorating" it instead.

So rather than celebratory 150th anniversary balls and reenactments, we'll have commemorative balls and reenactments.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, I guess you can always baffle them with bullshit.

I'm forever entertained by those people that attempt to sugarcoat what the south used to stand for; and what the war and that godforsaken battle flag still stand for to me and so many other Americans.

Whats the difference in defending the Confederate position in our civil war and say a German defending the Nazi position in World War II?!?

Where do these people come from?!? These people that lack basic common sense and yet they aspire to political office?!? What's the difference in Senator Ford and those two batshit crazy imbeciles, Congressman Michele Bachmann and Governor Sarah Palin?!? It's politicians like this that pull crazy straight outta their asses and try and pass it off as sanity.

How could any sane thinking man of color be in favor of celebrating our Civil War?!?  I could see celebrating the Emancipation........but the war?!?  What was this fool thinking?!?  He's lived in this state throughout his misguided life.  He knows our trees have borne more than their share of strange fruit. He has to know that Charleston was once the nation's capital of the slave trade. By the start of the Civil War there were more than 400,000 slaves living in captivity in this state. 

I can honestly only think of one reason why Senator Ford would even entertain taking this particular position about the American Civil War.