A post from a Biker group defended the Confederacy, claiming that revisionists were deceiving us all. They declared that the Civil war had nothing to do with slavery. I reposted and commented:
This is a pack of bizarre lies. Every leader of the confederacy declared, in writing, repeatedly, that the preservation of slavery to maintain white supremacy the one and only issue leading to their secession. Google the documents they wrote and signed. Either the glorious leaders of the South were filthy liars or slavery was the the only reason for secession. Their plans to conquer neighboring nations to spread their slave empire are a matter of cold hard fact.
Revisionist history? You mean accurate history. You mean factual history. Your "history" is delusional.
Later, a friend posted that " I am a firm believer that it is never to late to do the right thing" regarding the lowering of the Confederate flag. I added: I understand the people who have emotional ties to the flag and want to cling to it. I am half Texan and once I was as blind to the flag's historical evil as they still are. I was bitterly resentful of the racists who, I felt, shamed the flag by using it it in their cause. But facts are facts, and I realized that I was the one who was distorting the flag's meaning. It never stood for anything other than racism and slavery.
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
The South may finally be giving up its childish ways...we can hope.
He responded: Mr. Naranjo ... Removal of the Confederate Flag is a good gesture in the right direction but .... they still as a lot of the rest of the country have a LOOOOOOONG way to go... but you have to start somewhere... right?
ReplyDeleteMe: Streets and schools named for Confederate generals, statues of the founder of the Klan, monuments to treason...sometimes I despair. But this is the crack in the dam. I believe that what a teacher of mine called the "Silver Magnolia Myth" of the glorious Lost Cause will be swept away when the dam bursts open. With God's guidance, we will make it so.