A modest proposal for Vance-Aycock

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!

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.

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.]

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!!!

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

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

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.

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