All normal events and activities through the remainder of the year are back on the schedule, including all of our Fourth of July Events. The parade is back, and this year will include the Shriners and their cool vehicles. Vendors will be back n the beach, and music will start up around 11:30 and finish around 9:00. At this time, fireworks are not scheduled. The timeframe is very tight, and the logistics for those crews are very detailed.
Paul Plante says
I’m surprised that the town, which shows itself to be so “woke” and progressive in so many ways, is being rcactionary by celebrating what is clearly a white nationalist/white supremacist holiday that no longer means anything because Joe Biden has changed our history which begins when the first Black slaves were brought to America.
For shame, Cape Charles!
Lifelong says
Be quiet Paul time for some fun! It’s not all about woke or asleep! Lol Relax! Enjoy and don’t pick on CC!
Paul Plante says
Were you born without a sense of humor and did it depart you afterwards?
Did it hurt?
Was it surgically removed?
Blue Hoss says
It is Awakened. Woke is ebonics.
Paul Plante says
These people seem to not realize that we REAL AMERICANS are rebelling here against the Jay Fords of the world by mocking them and their stupid language usage with the use of the word “woke,” which they use to mock us as if we were ignorant by not being them, instead.
CAPE CHARLES MIRROR
Cornweller: What is it to be ‘Woke’?
AUGUST 20, 2017
Special to the Mirror by Chas Cornweller
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/cornweller-what-is-it-to-be-woke/
So, what does it mean to be “Woke”?
Dictionary: Past and past part of Wake.
In African American vernacular English (sometimes called AAVE) woke is the derivative of awake, rendered as woke.
As in, “I was sleeping, but now I’m woke.”
But it’s intended content has a much, much more powerful meaning.
As in, “I was asleep, but now I am woke.”
Still not reaching you?
Awake…dictionary: Awake adj. fully conscious and alert and aware: not asleep; synonym: see aware.
Now put “Woke” in the context of knowing issues.
Especially issues regarding the status of African Americans.
Do you get where I am coming from yet?
Woke is being not only aware of the strife between cultures (I refuse to use the word race because for me, its very own usage indicates division and better than/less than connotations) but empathic to these issues.
The Washington Post recently did an article regarding Millennials and their take on major issues facing America today.
Of whites, three percent listed police brutality as being a top problem in this country.
African Americans, however, were at twenty-seven percent regarding it as a top problem.
And herein, lies the problem.
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Paul Plante says @ AUGUST 21, 2017 AT 10:51 PM:
Chas Cornweller, speaking to you as someone older than you who is not at all hostile to you in here, do you realize that what you are doing in here is called “projecting?”
When a person such as yourself has uncomfortable thoughts or feelings, and those are human, Chas Cornweller, as you would know from reading Buddha, who had a handle on such things, having started life as he did as a warrior who was the son of a king, they may project these onto other people, assigning the thoughts or feelings that they need to repress to a convenient alternative target, which is all the rest of us in here, and you know what, Chas Cornweller, that is insulting as all get-out to people, and it generates hostility, even in someone as well-adjusted and mild-mannered as myself.
What you are doing in this thread is called “complementary projection,” which is assuming that others do, think and feel in the same way as you, and that is insulting as well, Chas Cornweller.
It is related to a phenomenon associated with democracy called “tall poppy syndrome,” where anyone who doesn’t think or act like the majority gets chopped down, which serves to maintain the groupthink the majority needs to keep itself a majority.
Coerced thought control in other words, which is anathema to a loyal American citizen.
And Chas Cornweller, what on earth is this obsession you seem to have with Jim Crow?
Most people in America today don’t even have a clue as to what Jim Crow is or what it means, so it means nothing at all to them, nor should it, because Chas Cornweller, Jim Crow is dead.
So why do you trey to keep reviving it here?
Why are we discussing something like Jim Crow that only existed in the Democrat party-controlled south after the civil war?
Is it because you think we are all a bunch of racists salivating to bring back Jim Crow?
Bev says
This message was such a shame to read.. describing Cape Charles as a “Woke” community. The person who wrote this appears to not realize.. how it makes him look..
Paul Plante says
Get a clue, Bev, I’m channeling CC Progressive, who unlike you and lifelong, does have a sense of humor and wit.
Paul Plante says
And actually, no, I don’t, so why don’t you help us all out by explaining to us all how it does make me look so we will all be so much smarter as you already are, and are you “woke,” Bev?
Paul Plante says
Would your face crack if you ever smiled?
Blue Hoss says
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/opinion/destination-gay-cape-charles/
Is this Awakened enough for you? I know you people like use the bastardized word ‘Woke’, but I refuse to use Ebonics or emulate colored folks.
Paul Plante says
What I think it makes me look like is a REAL AMERICAN who is objecting to Joe Biden changing our American history by executive order, as if by being president, Joe owns and controls what American history is going to be!
That’s what I think it makes me look like, and since it is true, I have no problem whatsoever with me looking like a REAL AMERICAN who has not forsaken our history because Joe Biden ordered us to do so.
And if Cape Charles really wants show its American spirit and patriotism, what it should do is to determine the azimuth from Cape Charles to the white house, and then set up a big laser pointer in the sky that everyone can see to orient themselves, facing the opposite direction, and then on command, everybody in Cape Charles at the same time on the 4th of July should drop trou, bend over and show Joe Biden their ***!
Paul Plante says
CAPE CHARLES MIRROR
“Plante: On the Fourth of July, Now Past and Gone!”
JULY 9, 2017
Paul Plante says @ JULY 3, 2020 AT 6:43 PM
When I was young, I honestly did not know that the Fourth of July was a racist holiday to celebrate white supremacy in this country.
And truly, how would you know?
When I was young, the Fourth of July was called INDEPENDENCE DAY!
There were no racial overtones to the holiday back then, and how could there have been, given there really is nothing racist about the holiday!
The racial overtones concerning the Fourth of July have come into the picture only recently, a fact that I was “woke” to by Albany, New York Democrat Mayor Kathy Sheehan issuing an executive order demanding that a statue of Revolutionary War general Philip John Schuyler be removed from a park across from her city hall in Albany, because she finds it offensive to her sensitive sensibilities because Philip Schuyler owned black people as slaves.
That is when I finally made the connection and said, “My God, what on earth could I have been thinking, thinking people like Philip Schuyler are American heroes, when Kathy Sheehan is making it real clear that because he owned slaves he really was a bad person we should have nothing to do with, with his role in American history being totally erased, along with his name and story, which is intimately and inextricably tied up with the Fourth of July!
So if we cannot remember Philip Schuyler because he is a racist white supremacist, then it only logically follows that anything he was associated with, starting with the Fourth of July has to be racist and white supremacist by association.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/plante-on-the-fourth-of-july-now-past-and-gone/#comment-258355
Frieda Harman says
was curious if we are welcome to bring our golf cart down and join the parade with our grandson! Smith Beach Resident!!
Note: Not sure. You may want to contact Cape Charles Community Relations: 757-331-4785
Stuart Bell says
OHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! JOY!!!!!!!!!
Frieda Harman says
Cape Charles Community Relations….I have left a message!
Patrick Ryder says
So are there fireworks? Woke or whatever… I want to see the sky light up!!
Paul Plante says
Good to see someone with a working sense of humor still left in Cape Charles.
Debbie says
I would think you could since it’s full open now.
Dougls Luther says
I just want to know. After the fireworks, are the people who came to celebrate, going to clean up after themselves?
Paul Plante says
Isn’t that the town’s responsibility?
It invited all those people, afterall.
the people who came to celebrate says
No, next question.
Dougls Luther says
Didn’t think so.