Save the Date!
Today is Confederate Memorial Day in some southern states. You know, the ones that aren’t so united.
State government offices are closed Monday in Mississippi and Alabama for Confederate Memorial Day.
In Georgia the day has been called “State Holiday” since 2015, when Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee’s birthday were struck from the state calendar. The state holiday list says the official holiday is April 26 but will be observed this year on Monday, April 24.
Mississippi even has proclaimed April as Confederate Heritage Month. “History deserves study and reflection, no matter how unpleasant or complicated parts of it may be,” sayeth Governor Phil Bryant.
Roll out the Stars and Bars and get drunk, Bubba. Your day is here. Try real hard not to marry your sister.
Thanks to Robert for the heads up.
“History deserves study and reflection, no matter how unpleasant or complicated parts of it may be,” sayeth Governor Phil Bryant.
How about studying and reflecting on how badly it went last time y’all decided that the federal government wasn’t the boss of y’all? And maybe making nice to the people whose ancestors were enslaved by some of y’all’s ancestors, and whose civil rights you’re still trying to restrict? We can acknowledge that your soldierly ancestors put up a real good fight for four years if you acknowledge that it was largely in the cause of continuing slavery, which a number of states put in their secession statements. The old soldiers on both sides shook hands at Gettysburg fifty years later, so I think we can too. If you’re polite, we might not even use the word “treason.”
1Well THAT image is going on my Facebook page. PDQ too.
2I’ll use it: TREASON! TREASON! TREASON!
3Their flag should be an obvious sign of those who would work to undermine and destroy the Constitution and the US. In other words: Potential Terrorists! Just like being on an ISIS website or (in their manner) having brown skin.
I say round them up until they have been severely vetted. Add them to the database of subversives, and monitor their activities.
Probably to the dismay of certain KKK individuals in Louisiana
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-orleans-confederate-statues_us_58fddcb8e4b00fa7de15a674?xt8&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
4Remembering Confederate soldiers is not something to be ashamed of. Remember the Civil war was very complicated, saying southern soldiers were traitor is wrong. Fifty years later they did meet again in respect lets us remember this. By the way my family fought and died in the Union armies.
5I have never understood the Confederate mentality – loose a war and continue to talk about it.
6This would be a good day to burn a Rag of Rebellion urinate on the ashes.
7Americans who take up arms against the government of the United States are traitors. I suspect this is a consistent read across all countries during all times of history, be it in reality or in fiction. Rebel against the country or the King or the Emperor, lose, and pay the dearest price. The quote attributed to old Ben Franklin, “We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” shows us now Ben understood the consequences of their 1776 actions against the throne. The Rebels should have understood and been rendered the consequences in April, 1865. They were not. And their rebellion lives on.
8I think it’s accurate to say that people who participated in a war against the government of the USA are traitors. I think celebrating that behavior and regretting the loss is un-American. I don’t think all the traitors were reprehensible people. Some were, some got sucked up in the psychological fervor of the time.
(*Women participated in every level of the Civil War on both sides, including as soldiers.)
The thing is, the Civil War ought to be studied the same way as the War of 1812 or the French (Canadian) and Indian War. Americans participated on both sides of those conflicts and the side which lost has not continued to claim they were right or honor their participants. The only place that happens, bizarrely enough, is the Civil War.
It seems like the south doesn’t understand the difference between honoring the courage and resourcefulness of southern participants and continuing to believe in their highly flawed cause. I support the first, but not the last.
9In the South, they study the War of Northern Aggression, and have abolished the term Civil War. This is currently being taught in their public schools, so no wonder they are still fighting it today.
10@maryelle
Praps the terminology “Civil War” should be dropped nationwide. In the South, they could continue to study the War of Northern Aggression, and in the unfooled parts of the republic students could study the story of Southern Bullsh!t from 1619 to present.
11And once again they celebrate losing.
Studying history doesn’t help if you don’t learn anything.
12“Try real hard not to marry your sister.”
Marry?
13A.J. @13 It is a sin if you don’t marry ’em first. Bad form and all. Remember this is the genteel south.
14I believe the day is officially known as “Treason in defence of slavery” day.
15Maybe the reason so many “conservatives” from the White Supremacy camp are so “unsettled” about terrorist acts is because their family lore recounts what happened when *they* did it…
Andrew Johnson was certainly the POTUS with the most longstanding negative impact. Even today we’re trying to correct it.
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