Posted on 06/03/2021 2:52:30 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter, the keynote speaker at a Memorial Day ceremony in Akron, Ohio, had the volume of his microphone turn down while giving his speech about the holiday that include a part about freed slaves being among the first to officially mark the event.
Kemter's microphone was turned down when he alleged that the first recorded Memorial Day celebration was by an organized group of freed black slaves almost a month after the surrender of the Confederacy in 1865, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
The microphone was turned down for about two of his 11-minute speech.
Cindy Suchan, chairwoman of the Memorial Day parade committee and president of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary, said either she or another American Legion official turned down the volume because that part of the speech was "not relevant to our program for the day."...
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Doesn’t fit into the narrative!
Freedom of what free speech?
No one should have turned down the volume on his speech.
However, I thought Memorial Day was established after the WWI armistice? Perhaps I’m wrong?
I think officially it was established thus.
I think the guy’s point was that different groups were doing local forerunner Memorial Day things and one such group was black.
It was Veteran’s Day that came from Armistice Day. Memorial Day came out of the Civil War.
No, it started out as Decoration Day. Nov 11 was recognized after WWI.
It was General John Logan who first issued General Order number 11 in 1868 called for a National Day of Remembrance that lead to this annual observance.
Historical negationism, also called denialism, is falsification
Got to love that desire for racial healing.
Everyone knows the birthplace of Memorial Day is Waterloo, NY.
Just go there - they will tell you it’s so.
No, it started out as Decoration Day.
YOU’RE CONFUSING ( OR CONFLATING, AS THE NEW GROOVY TERM MAY BE, SUGGESTING NO ERROR WAS MADE. BUT WE’RE GROWN UPS AND CAN MAKE, AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR MISTAKES MADE. TRUE LIBSPEAK THAT!) “MEMORIAL DAY”, WHICH ORIGINATED POST CIVIL WAR AND WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED “DECORATION DAY”, WITH “VETERANS’ DAY” WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED “ARMISTICE DAY” MARKING THE END OF WWI, 11TH HR., OF THE 11TH DAY, OF THE 11TH MONTH...OR WHATEVER THREE DAY WEEKEND CONGRESS HAS MADE IT THESE DAYS.
KEEP THE FAITH.
The Colonel was very likely correct, as a statement of historical fact. But these days, any public remarks including the phrase ‘black slaves’ while voiced by a white guy is probably going to make some listeners a little nervous, even if complimentary. Especially if they had never heard this before, as I haven’t.
It was handled in a clumsy way. The Colonel’s pride was injured by the apparent censorship due to jittery nerves. I know older people enough to say he is never going to forget the disrespect and what amounts to ignorance of the hosts.
I think due to the climate there was a huge misunderstanding.
The two AMerican legion officials should issue a statements correcting that mistake now.
I still call it Armistice Day.
OK Cindy, WAS it you or was it someone else?
Because if Cindy can't come clean on that then I tend to not believe other things she may say like "not relevant to our program for the day."...
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Any time a Whitey talks about blacks it’s assumed to be racist. Someone was too stupid to understand the words and heard “black” and the Pavlovian reaction was to silence it.
Just as well. Someone was sure to accuse him of racism and many stupid people would have accepted that condemnation without reading his words.
This youtube video gives a pretty good history of memorial day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1NyjidUnU
Yes, you are wrong.
You are thinking of Veterans Day. Memorial Day used to known as Decoration Day and it was to do with the Civil War dead.
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