I can’t bring myself to watch anything by uber-Communist Burns after I saw him compare Robert E. Lee to Adolph Hitler on a talk show a few years back. I also had a buddy who once had to drive Burns to an event from an airport. My buddy said that he was a completely self-absorbed prick, kinda like a white Spike Lee.
Reconciled?
What has changed since that event (not a question)!
I see and hear many experts and historians talk about why Southerners (and only Southerners) are still so divisive about the Civil War. The causes of the war are written about and discussed endlessly but not very much is said about the aftermath, except for partial stories of the founding of the KKK. Told from a victor,s view. I would suggest a documentary along the lines of “The Civil War†on the era known as RECONSTRUCTION. An honest look at this period, 1865-1880 would go along way in explaining just why we are so defensive and defiant.
I have friends from all over the country, but even with similar interests there is, to me, an almost foreign aspect to some of them. The pot is far from melted yet.
Have we reconciled? The Civil War was not just about slavery and racism but also about the federal government sticking their nose into how states did their business. So no, we haven’t reconciled. Many blacks still have great anger over the past and the federal government is still like a hungry monster, seeking to gobble up as much power from the states as possible. The only good thing Obama and his administration has done is to bring this to the surface.
A poster on the Old Virginia blog said this and I agree. Although my ancestors fought with the First Ohio Volunteers, I still agree that the federal government, as it exists today, is operating without constitutional authority.
Some months ago, I bought the DVD set. It did NOT have the reenactment scene, which was one of my favorites, nor did it have some others. I don’t know why.
I returned it and got my money back.
In the 1860’s Fedzilla stole the people’s property (slaves). Today, Fedzilla steals as much property (taxes) as it can. The only things that have changed are the object of the thieves and the people’s willingness to accept it.
The regions are always going to be divided politically. I don't think it's hatred, just different strokes for different folks, city mice and country mice. One "end" of the country is always going to vote differently from the other, and the main axis or rift or polarity doesn't shift easily.
But over similar issues? People with an axe to grind love to say things like that. If you're into the division enough, everything will look connected and similar, like it's all the same fight generation after generation.
But when Mississippians and Alabamans slam Clevelanders and Detroiters for not being industrious and enterprising and capitalistic and ambitious and devoted to education and technology enough, it's pretty clear that some important things have changed over the years.
Academics (and others) further accuse the Confederate heritage folks of dividing and pitting certain views against others all the while claiming their own "neutrality" and then at the same time declaring "victory" in the narrative war. How does one claim "victory" while at the same time denying there's any real divide and claiming "neutrality?" Am I missing something?
Undoubtedly, and not for the first time. When was this "narrative war"? What were the major battles? I must have slept through the war and the victory parades.
WBTS.
Windows Based Terminal Services?
A radio station?
Oh. War Between the States.
Nope. That one has not reconciled.
You know I find it odd whenever this Country goes in to help another Country we are always I say again always on the side of the South is this the government telling us what side is always right The Southern part of the country. The north is always were the nuts live.