Violins. Violins scratching ever so mournfully.
Seriously, it’s OK to mention something of slavery here. In the CSA headquarters.
But, we discovered the last few years there is already a wholesale CRT-like effort put forth by our lovely federal government regarding anything to do with Civil War sites.
Every CW site - WAR, FIGHTING, DEATH sites - has a violin-scratching entire segment in its visitor centers about slavery, ad nauseum. It’s all about slavery and how the black folk are. What it has to do with the battle sites is little. But every sign has been revised to reflect “enslaved labor(ors)” rather than “slaves” and signs added to the most mundane points in the battles as some kind of reflection on slavery.
Get off it! It’s NOT all about slavery! Soldiers getting enfiladed through from Little Round Top is NOT about slavery! There is no slave story here! (The Gettysburg VC is all-new, huge, and slathered in slavery homages.)
Really, get off it!
Same thing in the Natchez visitor center.
Get off it! It’s NOT all about slavery! Soldiers getting enfiladed through from Little Round Top is NOT about slavery! There is no slave story here! (The Gettysburg VC is all-new, huge, and slathered in slavery homages.)
Really, get off it!
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Well and truly said. The destructive and pervasive historical revisionism that’s happening in this country is a crime against humanity. There is however and encouraging truth: Such revisionism is rarely able to completely and permanently suppress historical truth.