REALITY CHECK POSTED 01/25/2013 "It speaks volumes that there is no monument erected in appreciation of the millions of North Carolinians who were forced to sacrifice their lives, liberty and prosperity to labor for others’ wealth like working animals. Whenever I see these confederate memorials I think of the “Lost Cause” historical-revisionist movement to reinterpret memories and sacrifices of the Civil War in a more favorable light. No doubt the southern states had the superior military leadership, but the “Lost Cause” movement often crosses the line of historical revisionism by denying the South’s disastrous political, economic and religious leadership leading up to the ruinous Civil War. At the center of the revisionism is the lie that the secession rebellion (and war) was somehow not about slavery. Sadly too many youth throughout the south are taught this lie with confusing and vague excuses. One only need read the various formal secession documents issues by the confederate states — and numerous other contemporaneous historical documents available on the internet — to see that for the southern aristocracy the war first and foremost about protecting and advancing human slavery. There is a cautionary tale that today we can’t admit to our youth that our history includes a shameful willingness to be misled by political, business and religious leadership with such disastrous consequences as 600,000 dead on our own soil and untold hardship for decades to come — all in support of an immoral and inhumane cause. Semper fi!"
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:26:56 +0000