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Re: N.C. Democrats honor Frye

BitterEXdemocrat — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:25:21 -0400

Aint it the truth!

Dont forget Robert 'sheets' Byrd...

Democrat 'party' is ORIGINAL 'party' of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us daily, especially, in the slave driven state of NC!

Re: N.C. Democrats honor Frye

PhantomLord — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:27:56 -0400

"Some Democrats thought it was inappropriate to continue to honor former Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock (1901-1905) because of his role in the white supremacist campaigns at the turn of the last century."

Then the democrat party should find nearly its entire history inappropriate.

The democrat party was the party of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, Jim Crow, Segregation, lynching, the KKK, Wilmington Race Riots, unleashing dogs and fire hoses on blacks, Bull Conner, Lester Maddox, George Wallace, and innumerable other atrocities committed against black Americans.

Re: Vance and Aycock at the U.S. Capitol

include_all — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:41:40 -0500

Hopefully, the multi-cultural leadership of the state Democratic Party will add the name of a female/ethnic minority leader to the V-A dinner. Perhaps the event can become the Zeb Vance-Charles Aycock-Jeanne Lucas Weekend.

Adding the LUCAS name would be a CHANGE IN WHICH WE CAN BELIEVE. Also, it would be a fitting tribute to retiring party chair Jerry Meek if he can help to facilitate this change shortly after the swearing-in ceremony of President Barack Obama.

It would be an inclusionary addition to the big Democratic Party events: (Vance-Aycock), (Jefferson-Jackson), and (Sanford-Hunt).

Re: And the runner up is...

FFC1304 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:18:53 -0400

must be due to the gasoline shortage, which 'gov' sleazely has announced is over in WNC, while stations STILL have no gas...

but remember, NObama IS HALF white!...

Message to the V.A. dinnerguests: CORRUPT democrats have RUINED our ONCE great state!

Re: Call the GOP the party of reconcilliation and better goals!

FFC1304 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:06:04 -0400

Democrackkks ARE the ORIGINAL 'party' of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us ALL, especially in the ONCE great state of NC!

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a NC democrackkk!

So, FFC what should we call the GOP?

zoobatmania — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:46:39 -0400

See, Democrats came around, whereas Republicans left the Democratic Party when it began accepting the idea of civil rights and equality. Your Helms Dixiecrats who were all KKK members are now Republicans. So, how about Republiracists Party? How about Nazicans? How about GOPC, "Get Out, People of Color"?

I'd rather be the party that supported slavery in 1865, than the one who supported racism, bigotry, and "separate but equal" in 1965, and 1975, and 1985, and 1995, and 2005.

Re: A modest proposal for Vance-Aycock

Proctor — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:09:10 -0400

Zebulon B. Vance also rendered considerable public service in North Carolina and nationally from 1876, when the former general of the Union Army, U.S. Grant, was the 18th President of the U.S., until Vance's passing in 1899 when William McKinley was the 25th U.S. President.

Following the renewal of the American Union in 1865 under the 16th and 17th Presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Zebulon Vance served as governor of North Carolina from 1876-78. Elected U.S. senator in 1870 but anable to serve on a credentials question, Gov. Vance won election again to the United States Senate in 1879 and represented North Carolina in Washington from that point in the administration of Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) through the presidencies of Republicans James Garfield (1881), Chester Arthur (1881-1885) and Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893), as well as the two separate White House terms of Democrat Grover Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897), then on into the third year of Republican President McKinley's first term (1897-1901) until Sen. Vance's death in 1899.

So the ill-advised effort to strike down the legacy of Gov. and Sen. Zebulon Baird Vance of North Carolina also constitutes an affront to the honor, good faith and mutual respect bestowed upon the renewed American Union of the latter 19th Century by former veterans of both the Union and Confederate Armies during the Late Unpleasantness of the 1860s.

David McKnight
Durham

[Site of the Bennett Place, where Union and Confederate Gens. Sherman and Johnston conducted the final laying down of arms by Civil War troops following the previous conclusion of major military hostilities at Appomattox, Va.]

Re: The Black-Perdue-Wright Dinner

FFC1304 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:04:29 -0400

how bout 'The VILE James B. Hunt, Mike Sleazely and Bev Perdue' dinner?

daughter, daddy, grandaddy...more corruption without interruption!

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a NC democrackkk*

*spelled with 3 Ks to HONOR the democrat heritage as the ORIGINAL 'party' of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us DAILY in NC!!!

The Black-Perdue-Wright Dinner

alterac — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:59:55 -0400

Seems fitting to know name the dinner after the 3 most corrupt politicians in North Carolina History. If we have room for one or two more, throw in Meek and Basnight

OR.......

GrayJ — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:29:43 -0400

The Scott Phipps-Black-Wright Dinner would update the dinner's name a little bit.

Re: A modest proposal for Vance-Aycock

Isaac136 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:36:32 -0400

Hmmmm. I say leave the danged name as it is. The names were not bestowed to honor the racist legacies of either of these fellows, though those legacies do exist.

I also think that while the Democratic Party itself had some ugly early chapters, we are able to demonstrate through members in our more recent history and our present, and through the candidates we offer that our agendas are progressive and that our desire to break down the walls of racism in this country and state are in earnest

Fingally, I think we learn more from keeping the names and discussing who the men were and what they did, INCLUDING the negatives stuff, than we do by trying to bury the issue by renaming the dinner.

Re: A modest proposal for Vance-Aycock

CarltonH — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:09:07 -0400

How about instead of being politically correct pansies you stick with the originial gentlemen who rank among North Carolina's greatest citizens.

Re: Moore: Change name of Democratic dinner

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:07:20 -0400

Juvenile joke deleted.

— RTB

Re: Moore: Change name of Democratic dinner

FFC1304 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:00:46 -0400

Thanks to all the racist democra***s visiting Asheville this past weekend for getting all those tacky political signs down before you left! Did you all have organized worker bees to do the sign bidness, or did you hire a posse of ILLEGALs to do it?...

The CURIOUS thing about all the 'Democrat' signs everywhere, for their newly annointed statewide candidates, NOT ONE of the signs had the word
'Democrat' on them??? How curious is that?? Are they EMBARRASSED?

Did the 'governor' attend the gala? From my observation point, I did NOT see very many minorities attending and attendance was DOWN by about 600 folks! Hmmm, what does that tell ye? (crumbling?)

Re: Butterfield: Proud to be a Democrat

bellaparola — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:53:18 -0400

Why is everyone flailing away at this tiny little issue, without a single comment on DOT's secret contract for a couple of million dollars worth of assessment and recommendations, without requiring a single written word of reporting what was done?