Flashback 2009 : When Obama Made the Sons of Confederate Veterans Happy For Memorial Day

Flashback 2009. The New York Times reports on President Obama on Veterans Day :

Presidents since Warren G. Harding have commemorated Memorial Day by visiting Arlington National Cemetery, where white rows of tombstones represent more than seven generations of America’s war dead. But with the nation’s first African-American president in office, a race-related controversy erupted over Mr. Obama’s appearance this year.

Last week, a group of university professors petitioned the White House to end a longstanding practice of sending a wreath to a monument to Confederate soldiers on the cemetery grounds. The petitioners, including William Ayers, the University of Illinois at Chicago education professor whose acquaintance with Mr. Obama has been controversial, said the monument was “intended as a symbol of white nationalism” and gave “encouragement to the modern neo-Confederate movement.”

Despite the professors’ call for him to “break this chain of racism,” Mr. Obama continued the Confederate monument wreath tradition.

Will the Cancel Culture come for Barack Obama for making some politically incorrect organization happy?