Posted on 04/10/2023 10:22:57 AM PDT by euram
The Texas Civil War Museum, meant as a nonpolitical exhibit on the South’s failed rebellion but inevitably tainted as a whitewashed attraction that overlooked Black history and the horror of slavery, will close Dec. 30, the museum has announced.
The museum’s Confederate and Union military artifacts, valued at $3 million when the $1.5 million building opened in 2004, are now worth $20 million-$25 million and “may be the biggest private collection ever put on the market,” said the owner of a Pennsylvania auction house.
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My wife and son recently went to Atlanta, and visited Stone Mountain Park.
I wonder how much longer that will be around?
The Taliban in Afghanistan used artillery to blast to pieces priceless old religious statues carved into mountainsides.
There are certainly those here who would like those things gone from our country.
The Texas Civil War Museum was a gift to the people of Texas and the citizens of Fort Worth and the surrounding area.” He added: “There will never be another like it.”
Let us hope.
Bud Kennedy
Except for a small minority of abolitionists, almost no one in the white population gave a rat's patooty about what slavery did to black people. Whites in the North came to hate slavery because they considered slavery to be the foundation of the arrogant Southern planter aristocracy that broke the Union. Most white Southerners may have had their doubts about secession and the planters, but they weren't going to tolerate threats coming from DC.
Notice that blacks play almost no role in this scenario. They effectively had almost no agency in a struggle between white political factions.
Such it the fate of most private collections - the gathering followed by the scattering.
It called itself a Civil War Museum but was really a museum about the implements of war from the Civil War. The politics of the time and the issue around the Civil War, if they are there are almost unnoticeable. It also had a huge collection of dresses that showed changing fashion trends. It was in a terrible place, with no information or advertising. We had driven past it for years until we finally stopped for a tour. The parking lot was usually empty when we went by. It needed to be a wing in a much larger museum. But have to have the narrative that it was racist.
There were also black slave owners, along with Native American tribes who traded and owned slaves. There were even white slaves!
They also had almost no agency in their ultimate emancipation. I believe this is one of the foundation stones of their ongoing cultural inferiority complex.
Groups in Atlanta call for it to be closed and destroyed every year. All it will take is for one Governor to give in and it will be gone.
Do they still have the Cyclorama, the Battle for Atlanta?
I watched a documentary on Stone Mountain. It is privately owned, and seems well managed enough. What was humorous was that a lot of the staff are well mannered and good natured black folks. At least the ones on the documentary. And the visitors were mainly anodyne 50+ whites, who look like they would be genuinely offended to hear anyone use the n-word, let alone the kind of vile language that you can hear on rap music videos.
bummer, it is a cool place
A little research shows that the majority of the items were from the private collection of a wealthy oil businessman, Ray Richey, who founded the museum. Some items are on loan from the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The museum is a non-profit 501c-3 operation. I assume the items from Mr. Richey are "on loan."
My guess is he and his family got tired of the woke political harassment, and realized that selling out his private collection will net a nice profit. Since that's the majority of the museum collection, it makes more sense just to close it. If anyone has further info - please advise.
Yes. The Cyclorama has been moved from its former site down by the Atlanta Zoo to a new home in Buckhead at the Atlanta History Center.
https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/exhibitions/cyclorama/
The move happened a year before Covid. Going to see it in the new location was sort of on my back burner list of things to do before Covid hit, and I suppose it’s back there again now. It’s the sort of thing you ought to go see about once a decade if you’re local, as I am.
The true reason was money. The powerful northern interests would lose a massive amount of money if the South was successful in disassociating from their control.
Black people didn't have a d@mn thing to do with it until the end of the war, and then they were just pawns.
Notice that blacks play almost no role in this scenario.
This news is tragic. The museum offered a view of the Civil War from a Texas point of view. Included was a display on the Battle of Palmito Ranch, the last battle of the war—and a Confederate victory—which was fought in South Texas near the Mexican border. Interestingly, a unit of French soldiers on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande fired on the Union troops—the only time an army from a third party intervened in the war.
It was about slavery. It was about the South maintaining an economic system based on the use of humans beings being bound, chained and bought and sold as mere chattel.
The South chose a path of secession when Lincoln won the 1860 election.
The South was outraged and feared that the Republicans would abolish slavery.
Notice it’s Republicans who wanted to end it and Southern Democrats who wanted to preserve it.
This is a conservative web site,( i.e we’re)supposed) to be Republicans here.
Flame away, but you can’t deny the truth of history.
If you want further proof of what I posted take a look at the Confederate Constitution.
It’s spells out clearly what the Confederacy stood for.
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