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Fearing reparations to the point of altering culture and heritage is an abomination.

I concur with Rebelbase. The act of changing history, which the Soviets so often did, and which the Nazis organized the SS-Ahnenerbe to do in an elaborate and pseudoscholarly way (mythographers of the Germanic ur-Aryans, and all that tripe), was what George Orwell tried to teach us is an abomination and a horror, as it wilfully destroys the human capacity to think inductively and objectively about right, wrong, fact, and error.

Rewriting history is an attempt to lobotomize the revisionist's target audience, and is an act of intellectual violence, not fraud, on a level very nearly with homicide.

I don't disagree. I'm not the one trying to re-write history. All I'm saying is that if we let the race baiters succeed in their quest to eliminate every vestige of the Confederacy, they do more damage to themselves and their positions in favor of reparations or other "we are descendants from slaves and you owe us for it" arguments.

History is immutable. Future historians will know the truth of the Confederacy, the South and slavery. For all we know, one day future historians may be able to go back in time and witness the Civil War as it occurred. Things like repararions are temporal. They are transient in time because they are based on emotion. History is based on fact. I don't embrace historical revisionism, I just like the idea of the revisionists shooting themselves in the foot.

I know that slavery did not begin and end with the Confederacy, it has existed since long before Jesus walked the earth and still exists today. The issue that the race baiters are raising is that THEY IMPLY (or believe) THAT THE CONFEDERACY WAS THE BEGINNING AND END OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA). They are the ones seeking to eliminate every vestige of the Confederacy. If we let them do it, it takes the wind out of their sails because they have no further arguments; they will have shot themselves in their own feet and will have destroyed their own credibility.

We know the truth; it is a truth that the race baiters are diligently trying to disavow, just as they try to disavow that it was mostly white men fighting on both sides of the issue that ended slavery as a practice in America. In the end, right prevailed. Justice prevailed. Their wishing that their own history were different doesn't make it so. Their denial that they were sold into slavery by rival tribes in Africa doresn't make it so. It happened. It is historical fact. History is immutable. Current "historians" may wish to revise history to suit the contemporary social fads, but future historians will expose the lies for what they are and will rediscover the truth.

All I'm suggesting is that we let these folks play their games. They only fool themselves and make themselves look more foolish and ignorant as a result. As a historical purist, revisionism is a repugnant to me as it is to those of you arguing against me on this issue. But, let not your hearts be troubled, this is a small thing in relation to the world at large. The truth can never be permanently changed to anything else simply because a minority of people want to wish it away.