In his feature weekly column at WorldnetDaily entitled: “Pocahontas’ Perfect Politically Correct Party,” actor Chuck Norris discusses the political correctness of the Jamestown 2007 organizers and encourages readers to attend the Jamestown Quadricentennial: A Celebration of America’s Providential History, sponsored by Vision Forum Ministries:
This past week, the London Telegraph echoed a WND report about how the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia is toning down its 400th anniversary of the colony from a “celebration” to a “commemoration,” because “black and Indian members of the organizing committee branded Jamestown ‘an invasion.’....
The Telegraph comments that the National Park Service exhibition “plays down the achievements of the first 107 settlers.” Those accomplishments, as WND reported in another article,include the Christian motive and mission of the colony, which is being excluded in some tour guides’ education to the public....
Reported the Telegraph: “A critic for the New York Times, who visited the exhibition this month, noted that the Queen [who is visiting Virginia in May] would find ‘not the triumph of British influence, but the triumph of ambiguity, discomfort and vague multiculturalism.’ Edward Rothstein warned that the ‘overall impact’ of the exhibition was ‘only to diminish a visitor’s sense of English culture.’”
As a patriot in line with our Founding Fathers, I’d highly encourage readers to voice their opinions about these things to Virginian governmental representatives as well as to leaders of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, which oversees the Jamestown Settlement and falls under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Virginia....
In hope of setting the record straight, Vision Forum Ministries and its founder, Doug Phillips, is organizing “The Jamestown Quadricentennial: A Celebration of America’s Providential History,” which will be held June 11-16, 2007, in the Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown triangle. I encourage your attendance at that event, as well as your weekly readings of Phillips’ new WND “Jamestown Jubilee” column....
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