Common Cause Delaware Urges Georgetown Town Council to Reject Public Funding Request from Private Organization Hosting Confederate Monument and Flag
Georgetown Historical Society, proudly flying the treason/Lynyrd Skynyrd flag, is obviously a bunch of MAGA shitheads and racists. They would like the Georgetown Town Council to declare themselves to be MAGA shitheads and racists as well. Common Cause Delaware would like the Georgetown Town Council to NOT declare themselves to be MAGA shitheads and racists.
Dear Mayor West and Members of the Georgetown Town Council:
Common Cause Delaware strongly urges you to deny the Great Fund Request from the Georgetown Historical Society, which is on your July 25, 2022 agenda. As an organization that supports democracy and all it entails – including fundamental human equality – we cannot remain silent about this issue.
The Georgetown Historical Society stubbornly continues to fly the Confederate flag on its property, despite repeated requests for its removal, and since 2007 has maintained a Confederate monument, even though Delaware was not part of the Confederacy.
The Confederate flag represents the cause of those who took up arms to defend the institution of slavery that dehumanized Black people, declared them essentially inferior, and treated them with ghastly cruelty.
In 2022, almost 160 years after the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in this country, it is shocking and unacceptable that the Georgetown Historical Society continues to fly the Confederate flag and openly mourns the lives of those who died fighting against the United States.
Your spending choices demonstrate your priorities. We urge you to reject this request to spend taxpayer money subsidizing a private organization that celebrates the Confederacy. Common Cause Delaware urges you to declare there is no place for racism in your funding priorities, and to swiftly deny their request for money.
Sincerely,
Claire Snyder-Hall
Executive Director
Common Cause Delaware
“(a) strong feeling in the lower two counties of Delaware is aroused in favor of Delaware joining the Southern Confederacy.” –Charles du Pont Bird, in a letter to Robert E Lee (c. 1863), outlining plans to sabotage Dupont gunpowder factories supplying the Union Army
Rich a-hole acts like an a-hole. Not breaking news. From the same article:
The .”..but its our culture” argument is bullshit. It’s racism, pure and simple.
You guys are way off. Progressives often make blanket statements that refer to others as racist without merit. That’s one reason why you’re not respected by anyone outside of your small circle.
Even conservatives are often respected even when centrists disagree.
Thank you for the peckerwood perspective.
If you choose to worship the “battle flag” flown by that segment of America that enslaved people then YOU ARE A RACIST. If you don’t reject such inhumane behavior whether past or present then YOU ARE A RACIST. If the shoe fits…. Rep Kowalko
If you want to signal to the world that you are a bunch of MAGA shitheads and racists you do exactly what the Georgetown Historical Society is doing.
I don’t see how observing what they want us all to observe is painting with too broad of a brush.
“Even conservatives are often respected even when centrists disagree.”
Though the sentence makes no sense as written, you can see the core of their complaint: We don’t respect them.
It has never occurred to them to change their behavior so that we DO respect them.
Just to illustrate the point, all it took for many liberals to respect Liz Cheney was for her to stand up and tell the truth despite threats from the criminal gang her party has become.
per a FB commenter – The Georgetown Council voted to give the bunch of MAGA shitheads and racists $2,000.00