Museum of the Confederacy Considering Name Change

The Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 20 February 2006 | Janet Caggiano

[Rebeleye]

The Museum of the Confederacy will likely drop the word "Confederacy" from its name when it moves its collection to a new home.

[wideawake]

I guess the T-shirt I bought last time I visited will now go up in value.

I hope the Davis White House will still be open to the public.

[nctexan]

So the new name will be "Museum of the"?

OK with me if it works for them.

[Rodney King]

This is absurd. It is in fact a museum of the confederacy. Why not call it such? Should we rename ancient egyptian museums because they had slaves?

[xcamel]

"If you forget history, you are doomed to repeat it. If you deny history, you are simply doomed."

[Tax-chick]

The David White House was really cool. The decor was outrageous :-).

[Tax-chick]

Davis, I mean.

[BigCinBigD]

Perhaps we should tear asunder and burn the memory of our history to the winds. All for the sake of the small ignorant Mimi Elrods of the world.

[Thrownatbirth]

A museum about the Confederacy without "Confederacy" in the title?

They'll probably call the place the Museum of White Oppression or something to keep the libs happy.

[From One - Many]

The demorats come from a long line of people supporting 'slavery'. The demorats desire to do away with history and / or revise history tells me the demorats would love nothing better than to place all of us into their new form(s) of 'slavery'. Beware of their who revise or wish to do away with history, for those persons are the next oppressors.

[Lee'sGhost]

"The Museum of the Confederacy will likely drop the word 'Confederacy'"

The "Museum of the" is gonna sound pretty damn stupid.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"Should we rename ancient egyptian museums because they had slaves?"

Just goes to show you it's gonna take at least another 4000 years for this current slavery infatuation to end.

[walford]

"To me, the Confederate flag symbolizes slavery, oppression and denying people their rights..."

And to others -- including many born in this country -- the American flag represents all of those evils and more. Review this article noting places where the American flag was banned from being displayed in college campuses soon after 9/11.
http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2001/nov_2001_1.html

So are we then to cater to people's ignorance and prejudices? Yes, if you are on the Correct side of the ideological spectrum.

[RebelBanker]

I am a member of the Museum of the Confederacy. I will not be a member of the "Museum of the ". If they are so ashamed that they would deny the name, I would be ashamed to be associated with them.

[Vigilanteman]

This is absurd. It is in fact a museum of the confederacy. Why not call it such?

Doncha know that with Liberals when reality conflicts with their worldview, then reality has to give way?

[popdonnelly]

I'm curious as to what these people think they're accomplishing by denying history?

[Monterrosa-24]

This has already happened in Columbus, Georgia. The Confederate Navy Museum moved to a new and larger building and adopted a new name...The Civil War Navy Museum.

[Leg Olam]

Utterly stupid.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, how about the Museum of the Armed Struggle for States' Rights ?
Or the Museum of the War of Northern Aggression? (If it's mostly military in character.)

Or the Museum of the Traditional Agrarian South and the War of Northern Aggression?

Just some suggestions. They definitely should be floated in hope of keeping the more sensible name "Museum of the Confederacy".

(On the primary issue--states' rights--the South was right. Sad that revisionists have made slavery (a secondary issue on which the South was wrong) into the supposed causus belli.)

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Unfortunately the new more accurate name would be: Museum of Humans-as-Chattel. I say leave it alone, let ancient hurts heal and move on.

Hillary's vote-slaves down on the inner-city plantation "know what I'm talkin' about."

The South was fighting, ironically, for property rights. Unfortunately, humans aren't property. Those in the Bible Belt *mostly* acknowledge the error of their ways now. Thank God!

Meanwhile, Hillary wants to keep the unenfranchised forever chained to welfare. The ones that survive Sangercide, anyway. Hence her bringing up the Confederate Flag issue as a way to foment more class warfare and to *segregate the vote* to her benefit. A truly Machiavellian ploy.

"The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men." -- George Washington (General Orders, 23 August 1776) Reference: Maxims of George Washington, Schroeder, ed. (86)