A Civil War museum in metro Atlanta plans to close. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
Posted on 05/25/2017 6:43:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Story Highlights Nash Farm Battlefield and Museum in Henry County plans to close June 1. A Henry County commissioner requested that all Confederate flags be removed from the museum.
A Henry County commissioner requested a few months ago that a local Civil War museum remove its Confederate flags.
But without that symbol, the Nash Farm Battlefield and Museum announced that it can’t conduct its mission properly and will close June 1.
In a Facebook post, the museum’s directors cited the request by District 2 Commissioner Dee Clemmons that all Confederate flags be removed from the museum, in addition to the gift shop, “in an effort not to offend anyone.”
“To exclude any Confederate flag would mean the historical value has been taken from our exhibits, and a fair interpretation could not be presented to each guest,” the post read. “Confederate flags were on this hallowed ground, as were the Union flags. To remove either of them would be a dishonor.”
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A Civil War museum in metro Atlanta plans to close. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
District 2 Commissioner Dee Clemmons
Why not turn it into a private museum?
Rewriting and scrubbing history is going down a slippery slope.
Why not close it, if there is nothing more to see except a censored PC version of events?
How about a WWII museum without any German stuff?
Or a Revolutionary War museum without any exhibits on Washington and Jefferson (slaveholders and utterly evil oppressors)?
It’s a museum, not a statehouse. You’re right. A private museum would be ok but don’t let any blacks enter. Solution: build it on an indian reservation.
It’s Reconstruction.
Wikipedia tells us that era was from 1865 to 1877.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Era
Wikipedia is wrong. Reconstruction is alive and well. Undead as it were.
If we continue to remove our history it opens the door to repeat it. History is history and hiding it does NOT CHANGE IT!
The state owns the land.
Requested? Just tell her “No”.
Erasing history one flag at a time.
[In a Facebook post, the museum’s directors cited the request by District 2 Commissioner Dee Clemmons that all Confederate flags be removed from the museum, in addition to the gift shop, “in an effort not to offend anyone.” ]
Yes, history must not offend snowflake sensibilities.
Black snowflakes?
The Black Plague has descended...... that’s the problem
Violation of the First Amendment.
Tell the esteemed Commissar, er, Commissioner, to go piss up a rope.
For the first time in American History it has become illegal to teach American History.
Are we stupid people or what, it’s Civil War all over again.
Seems now more a question of not if but when Confederate reenactors will be banned or at a minimum they will not be able to fly their flags.
All monuments, memorials, and literature for George Washington, Ulysses Grant, Thomas Jefferson, William Tecumsah Sherman, Winfield Scott Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and William Clark is to be removed and destroyed because of slave ownership....
Don't worry. That will be the next step with the Leftists. They are never done until society is destroyed.
I've pretty much concluded the Leftist mindset is some sort of built-in self-destruct mechanism present in any organized group small or large. With governments, they start out small, grow, and with them the number of Leftists grow until they reach a critical mass which causes the society to collapse. Every society man creates is destined to fall. File it under the theory that trees don't grow to the stars.
Why, oh why, won’t any of these folks just say no? This is a museum, an historical site. So no, we are not going to remove any historical flags.
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