Pardon me for asking, but exactly how is truth ever to be considered “disgraceful” or “pathetic and shameful”?
Apparently we are going to have to fight that damnable war all over again. The wrong side won the first time. We will make it right the second time.
When it's only half the truth. What Williams neglects to say is that had the confederacy won then all those slaves who served the rebel army would have gone back to being slaves. And had any of their owners decided to free them for their service then according to the Virginia constitution they would have had 12 months to leave the state or else be returned to slavery. In short, Williams wants us to believe that the service to the confederate cause by any black person was respected was respected by the white populace. That is ridiculous.
It is amazing how you and others that follow your post think that every word uttered in this article by Willaims is simply a truth. It is laced with opinion. The opinions of Willaims that the war was not about upholding slavery and was not a Civil war are what are disgraceful. The Confederate democrats sought to uphold slavery and to usurp the power delegated by the Constitution for their own anti-freedom purposes.
You get to learn a new phrase today: HATE TRUTH.
A Hate Truth is any fact that, while true, is unflattering to a certain demographic and thus must be suppressed, even if it is factually correct. The utterance of a Hate Truth is considered the same as shouting racial epithets while kicking a downed man in the head with boots, or killing folks solely because of their skin color: It's a bad thing.
Good question.