Sheila Johnson Blasts McDonnell for Confederate History Month

Sheila Johnson, the billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television and major Democratic Party donor whose endorsement of right-wing Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell helped sell his image as a "moderate," releases a statement slamming McDonnell’s decision to reinstate Confederate History Month.

The statement:

"I must condemn Governor McDonnell’s Proclamation honoring ‘Confederate History Month,’ and its insensitive disregard of Virginia’s complicated and painful history, the remnants of which many Virginians still wrestle with today. The complete omission of slavery from an official government document, which purports to be a call for Virginians to ‘understand’ and ’study’ their history, is both academically flawed and personally offensive. If Virginians are to celebrate their ’shared history,’ as this proclamation suggests, then the whole truth of this history must be recognized and not evaded."

Politico's Ben Smith notes that one of the GOP's rising stars' decision to re-litigate the Civil War plays to "the narrowest perceptions of the GOP as a regional, cultural party." That, as well as the complaints of a billionaire black supporter with a high media profile, ensures this conversation will continue. So it's working out very well for them , no?

Last summer, the billionaire BET co-founder had high hopes for the extreme anti-gay and fundamentalist McDonnell. Instead of reigniting a race riot and proclaiming that gays didn't need employment protections, Johnson said McDonnell's focus would be "jobs, jobs, jobs."

Watch Sheila Johnson's endorse McDonnell and one of her campaign commercials AFTER THE JUMP ...

Comments

[Ealan]

Oh Sheila, no one ever told you - "be careful what you wish for Dear..."

[johnosahon]

GOOD FOR HER and the Virginians that voted a Republican into office.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR, by the time him and his AG are done, they would have put back slavery and arrested all the gays in Virginia.

[Ravenback]

Of course Sheila Johnson condemns his actions now. She got her real estate development project green-lighted after demonstrating to her Republican backers that she was a good ol' gal. Monetary gain and political pull were her rewards for backing a devil. I hope she chokes on it.

[Steve]

She got paid and she got played.

[Ravenback]

She got paid, but she played herself willingly.

[Perry]

Sheila Johnson should, for once, shut her GD pie-hole!

[Shane]

Wait a minute. The creatore od the Chitlin' Eatin' Nigga Network wants to cry racism because one of her good white Judy's made a proclamation about the Confederacy?

Fck that b-tch. BET needs to be condemned by her and SHeila AND her sorry ass ex should apologize to the 40 million black people living in the US about their sh-tty network.
Shane, great comments but no profanity pls thanks. -RM

[CC]

It blew up in ya face, boo boo! Play with the wolves, and get bit!

She failed to realize that they saw her as a rich n***** b**** who would turn on her own and still be a n***** b**** in their eyes all the same when it is said and done.

[Zaidi]

When you lie with dogs, you come up with fleas.

[Sven]

Back in the days of the old Virginia confederacy, many black female slaves believed what their mass'as told them - I will make you my wife. There was only one who made good on his promise - Thomas Jefferson - Sally Hemming. And she is now today recognized as is her family at Monicello. However, I doubt that Sheila will ever be recognized by Gov. McDonnell....