Glorious Johnson: Real Life Clayton Bigsby?
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Black councilwoman sets precedent: She attends Confederate memorial
By David Bauerlein, The Times-Union
Jacksonville City Councilwoman Glorious Johnson admires Abraham Lincoln and the confederate Flag.
Her appearance marked the first time an African-American council member has come to the annual memorial event at the Old City Cemetery near downtown.
It wasn’t an entirely new venue for Johnson, who is considering a future run for mayor. She also has attended the Jackson-Lee Dinner put on by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Kirby-Smith Camp of the organization invited Johnson, a former music teacher, to lead I Wish I Was in Dixie at the event Sunday. The song became a favorite anthem of Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.
“Let’s sing loud and let’s sing proud,” Johnson told the group.
Behind her, Confederate flags rippled in the breeze at graves where the Kirby-Smith Camp says 40 Confederate soldiers are buried. Tending to such graves is part of the mission for the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
During the ceremony, Johnson joined about 60 others who pledged allegiance to the United States flag and then said a “salute to the Confederate Flag.”
The Confederate flag has been controversial, particularly when elements of it have been used in state flags. The Sons of Confederate Veterans has asked Florida to sell specialty license plates with the Confederate Flag on them.
Johnson said in an interview after the ceremony she doesn’t view the Confederate flag as a racist symbol. She said by talking with members of the organization, she has learned more about the Civil War.
“This flag is not a flag of hate, but a flag about heritage and history,” she said. “The people out here are not about hate, but about heritage.”
Johnson, a Republican, cites Lincoln as a fellow member of the GOP. She said Lincoln deserves credit for signing the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery, though she said Lincoln did so partly because freed slaves would give the Union forces more military recruits.
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Maybe next she can appear at a noose hanging ceremony; there are plenty occuring in my neck of the woods.
I mean if this isn’t political pandering to the empth degree. Some people will do absolutely anything for power. Even Hillary Clinton wouldn’t stoop this low…well!
Hat tip to Black Political Thought for the story
I think this is what a great many white people have in mind for racial conciliation. We capitulate to this type of crap and utter insult and just accept it; then we’ll be good acceptable Negroes that they can get along with. That seems to be Pelmo’s message in the comments of the last link.
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