NAACP Chapter Opposes Civil War Reenactment

Lake Charles American Press | 16 Feb 2003 | Shawn Martin

[Rebeleye]

The Beauregard-Vernon NAACP on Thursday formally denounced an upcoming Civil War re-enactment. The local chapter cited racism and hatred as its reasons for opposition. The Rev. James Piper was the chief spokesman during the meeting Thursday. About 20 people attended. "I have checked, and the NAACP is against reenactments nationwide," he said...Piper said his group is against anything that "brings disharmony" and that "disrupts social and civil peace."

[Rose in RoseBear]

Heavy sigh ping.

[LibKill]

I have checked, and the NAACP is against reenactments nationwide

Why? Are they afraid that the South will win now that there are no bullets in any of the weapons? :)

[MichiganConservative]

This whole attitude of "let's forget history and destroy everything connected with it" is quite distressing. It's much like European countries that outlaw anything connected to Nazis. How are we supposed to avoid the mistakes of the past if we cannot publicly remember the past? Oh yeah, the idea of learning from the past is passe when we can learn all we need from the State.

[catfish1957]

OMG!!!!!

I posted an article about the same exact reenactment a year ago. Damn they are persistent

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[eddie willers]

Cowboys and Indians will be next.

[stainlessbanner]

Those of you that are re-enactors, I would like to hear from.

[stainlessbanner]

Here's what re-enactors do: 2 Union Soldiers Honored

[oyez]

If reenactments were racist the South would win every battle.

This is none of the NAACP's business.

[Centurion2000]

The Beauregard-Vernon NAACP on Thursday formally denounced an upcoming Civil War re-enactment

If they don't like it ... tell them to meet the re-enactors on the field of battle. Otherwise they need to shut up and quit whining.

[Centurion2000]

Black conservative ping

Do these guys and the Nation of Islam embarrass you guys like the KKK and White Aryan Resistence embarrass white people ?

[Constitution Day]

Thanks for the ping, SB. Absolutely ludicrous.

I'm sure some on FR will applaud it.
To some of the more impressionable quackspeakers on this forum, we're all "flaggots".

CD

[stainlessbanner]

I really saddens my heart that the NAACP would destroy American history like this. The re-enactors I know are honorable men and women who take great pride in their work, studying the period and meticulously dressing/acting the part.

They often put much of their own money into re-enacting (think cavalry, cannon, etc.) to show an honorable display. I see more and more black re-enactors, too. One of my favorites in a recent battle was a great cavalry officer!

Children and families can walk thru the camps and learn from the re-enactors, a real living history experience. It's a shame these revisionists would shutdown another wholesome family activity centered around education and history.

[Constitution Day]

Your comments are 'spot on'.
Sorry to post and run, but the meds I am on for my back are knocking me out.

I'll check back tomorrow.

[visualops]

"The local chapter cited racism and hatred as its reasons for opposition"

That is correct, it's their racism and hatred that leads them to oppose anything they didn't think up themselves.

[oyez]

Reenactors have a right of assembly as guarinteed by the constitution. The NAACP can go pound sand.

[I_be_tc]

Every time I hear that people want to hide history, like this and the plaque over the water fountain, it makes me think that if the Blacks continue to erase this history, then it is going to be like the Holocaust(sp). There are so many people today that insist it never happened. I have a college grad nephew who did not know Schindler's List was based on a true story. He knew nothing about it.

Do people not believe that maybe in 30 or 40 years, other people are going to insist there was no slavery. If we continue to hide the confederate flag and everything else, can we say there was no Civil War? I think the NAACP better start thinking. Good or bad, it is history.

TC

[FireTrack]

One of the largest Confederate Depots was on the property of a Carroll Jones, a black plantation owner just north of Vernon Parish where some the real battles took place.

Most of the action took place during the Red River Campaign towards the later part of the war. The Union army suffered a humiliating defeat against a force a fourth its size.

[4CJ]

I'm not a re-enactor (YET) but the NAACLP can politely "Kiss my grits".

[BenLurkin]

"The local chapter cited racism and hatred as its reasons for opposition."

This sounds like the NAACP's admission to me. Their racism and their hatred.