For some reason the local Communists love Pancho Villa. Here we see some posing after an anti-war rally in 2004.
Posted on 05/22/2017 9:58:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
The tragedy here is that it took the Spanish American War, after 33 years, to really start the healing process over the terrible war (1861 to 1865); and the antics of those trying to go back to the generation of hate-driven motivations, is really sick.
By contrast, consider how General Douglas MacArthur handled the honored dead, both Blue & Grey, in his 1962 masterpiece: "Duty, Honor, Country."
In that era, patriotic celebrations, both North & South, generally honored both military traditions with patriotic banners, music & art work. (Not that those who prefer a culture of hate & resentment were not still trying to poison the cultural well.)
For those who have forgotten the inspirational speech, above? Check it out!
And here we sit, letting them.
“This means the Civil War never happened. Therefore, slavery never happened.”
We still have history books and in those history books we can still read Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech where in his own words he tells us about why the Civil War occurred.
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”
“Tearing down monuments erases history.”
The purpose of a monument in to pay respect to a person to future generations.
The purpose of a history book is to tell a history to future generations.
With the monuments down, the history still exists.
Don’t be naive.
One can still go to Lee Circle and read a book on the Civil War.
One can also walk into any library and read books on the Civil War.
Or one can simply Google CSA Vice President Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech and read about why the southern states seceded from the Union.
The history still exists.
For now.
The spirit of the taliban is alive and well in America.
Let’s demolish Independence Hall, it can be read about in a book.
The reasons why they left is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is whether they had a right to leave, which the Declaration of Independence tells us they did.
The more significant issue involved in this conflict is not the South's reasons for leaving, but are instead the North's reasons for forcing them back into the Union at gunpoint.
Forcing them back in is a deliberate rebuke of the principle upon which this nation was founded. It turned a voluntary relationship into one of coercion, and in effect rather than freeing a million slaves, it simply created 25 million new ones.
The nation has worked for Washington ever since.
“Forcing them back in is a deliberate rebuke of the principle upon which this nation was founded. It turned a voluntary relationship into one of coercion....”
Times are better now, and if Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama wish to withdraw from he Union and form their own nation, I suspect the Union would not object as strongly as it had in 1861.
Not to worry. They'll burn the books next.
“Not to worry. They’ll burn the books next.”
No one is going to burn a history book and 500 years from now students can read the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina or they can read Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech and they can read all about the Attack on Fort Sumter.
“One can also walk into any library and read books on the Civil War.”
And when your leftist comrades start burning and censoring books, where does one go to read about the Civil War?
If either the Left or the Muslims have their way, said students will NOT have those history books. Both worldviews are doing "history cleansing" as we "speak" today.
Monuments do not have to exist in order to contextualize history. In fact, there are thousands upon thousands of events in history where participants are not honored with monuments, but are discussed in numerous texts.
For example, in New Orleans, there is no monument to the Union’s occupation of the city for almost the entirety of the Civil War, but I can read history and learn that New Orleans was never legitimately under the control of the Confedaracy.
History has always been cleansed.
Don’t change the subject. I didn’t talk about monuments, did I? Changing the subject is a loser tactic.
Now go back to my post and answer my question. I’ll wait.
So we can go back to calling it the War Between the States?
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