Tim Donnelly is a member of the California State Assembly. He was the lone vote in defense of the Confederate flag in a recent vote in the California State Assembly.
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-confederate-flag-bill-20140820-story.html
He came in third in the recent Republican primary for governor.
I have asked Mr. Donnelly to reconsider his vote for the Confederate flag. I sent him the following email to his campaign website:
Dear Mr. Donnelly:
I learn with regret that you were the lone vote for the
Confederate flag in the California Assembly. When I was young the Republican
Party was the party of Abraham Lincoln and not Jefferson Davis.
I am an investigative academic researcher into the
neo-Confederate movement. I am published by peer reviewed academic journals and
university presses. My resume is online at www.templeofdemocracy.com/resume.htm.
People coming up with rationalizations for neo-Confederacy
enable that movement. At my online resume I think you will find material
which will show why the neo-Confederate movement should not be enabled.
Additionally there are free guest links to the my articles and essays and
reports at “Black Commentator” which I think you will find informative.
I ask you to disavow your vote in the Assembly regarding the
ban on the Confederate flag.
A person who enables the neo-Confederate movement should not
hold any office of public trust.
I hope that you will consider this.
Regards,
Edward H. Sebesta
Co-editor of “Neo-Confederacy: A Critical
Introduction,” Univ. of Texas Press, 2008 (http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exhagneo.html),
and “The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ‘Great Truth’ About the
‘Lost Cause’” Univ. Press of Mississippi 2010. (http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1338).
Author of chapter about the Civil War and Reconstruction in the notorious Texas
teaching standards in Politics and the History Curriculum: The
Struggle over Standards in Texas and the Nation, published by Palgrave
Macmillan. http://www.keitherekson.com/books/politics-and-the-history-curriculum/
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