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Ditto for just about anything in the South these days.

We took a city tour in Charleston, SC, recently and it was all about slavery - same when we toured beautiful old plantations in Louisiana - all about slavery.

I wrote this on the other thread linked above:

When I detect Leftist historical revisionism, even a sniff of it, I tend to shut the movie, documentary, or book down.

That was what so irritated me about the Ken Burns “The American Revolution” series. I didn’t know he was a Leftist when he made the Civil War series, but the stench of his Leftism grew stronger and stronger in each successive work he put out, and when I heard him say making it “...forced him to revisit everything he thought he knew about the American Revolution...” I suspected that I knew exactly where he was going with that, and it was confirmed when it was released and people saw it. I cannot stand Ken Burns now. And he is out shilling for Democrats. He is a full on Leftist. He probably was all along, he just didn't out himself until he was sure he had enough "FU" money and didn't care what patriots might think of him.

The story of the USS Indianapolis (sunk at the end of WWII after she delivered the A-Bomb to Tinan, and made famous to many modern day Americans by “Quint” in the the hit movie “Jaws” where he discusses the shark attacks) is one of particular interest to me, having been able to spend a few hours talking with one of the survivors back in the Nineties when he was one of my patients.

When the movie “Men of Courage” (with Nicholas Cage playing Captain McVay) came out, I was excited to see it. When I did, I could only watch the first 15 minutes or so before shutting it off. They made it all about the racial conflict between black and white sailors, instead of the incredible story of survival that it was. It totally disgusted me.

What I appreciated with “Young Washington” is that that they did have specific references to slaves in it (as well as black men serving with the troops) and instead of making the movie all about that (which is invariably when Leftists like Ken Burns do when they get their hands on it) they framed the racial element in a historically accurate way.

“Young Washington” did it the right way, and I am grateful for that.

Did you tour the Slave Market museum?

My constant memory from it was the tightness of the black families...and how that has been lost since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.