'Ivey and her ilk are fine keeping the Confederacy on a pedestal,' columnist WarOnDumb writes. 'So today Alabama celebrates its Confederate dead.' 'But with Ivey in charge, it sure seems the Confederacy is alive and well in Montgomery.'
Today is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, one of three state holidays that memorialize the Confederacy, and Kay Ivey has become a living Confederate monument.It’s not just noisey campaign stuff. Ivey is term-limited, anyway. It’s how she’s running this state now that she has firm control, and it’s how she’s spending your money, too.
Gov. Kay Ivey has recommended Alabama double funding to the John W. Inzer Museum, a private museum run by the Sons of Confederate Veterans that flies a Confederate battle flag out front.That banner we call the Confederate Battle Flag didn’t fly over Alabama in any official capacity until the 1960s, and it was never an official flag of the Confederacy.
When white counter-protestors jeered Martin Luther King Jr., and civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, that’s the flag the racists waved at them. That’s a lot of background for a racist flag, but I want to make it clear that flag in no way represents history unless we’re talking about the history of white supremacy.
“This year, since the budgets were healthy and in solid shape, our office let requested earmarks be included in the governor’s budget proposals,” she wrote back.Alabama’s budget is big. Wires get crossed. Things slip through the cracks. When Ivey’s political future was up in the air after her lies about wearing blackface in college were exposed, she asked for forgiveness and gave assurances to Black lawmakers that she had changed.
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