ANOTHER STATUE HAS BEEN brought down, this time Silent Sam1 whose only “crime” was wearing a Grey uniform.
Most of those who enlisted in the Confederate army never owned a slave. Those who owned farms were “red necks” because their necks got burned red from working the fields.
ON THE OTHER HAND
The city of Hollywood FL recently purged its streets of Lee, Hood, and Forrest because two were Confederate generals (Lee and Hood) and one, Forrest, was a general and later founder of the KKK.
Never mind that Lee and Hood fought for a principle other than slavery.
- Slavery did play a role in prompting the war, but there were other issues, including states rights that the Federal government was usurping. Had slavery really been the issue, Lincoln would have issued his “Emancipation Proclamation” before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.
IF TRUTH BE TOLD
If truth be told, the leftists pulling down statues of Confederates – generals and privates alike – are NOT protesting slavery. It has been outlawed since the passing of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on December 6, 1865.
If the liberals were honest, they would admit their real raison d'être is to wipe out a part of U.S. history.
- If they are successful, American blacks will lose, since their contributions to the nation will be subsumed as well.
If we can agree that the real goal of the leftists and history deniers if to remove slave owners from U.S. history, then it would seem appropriate that their first goal would be to rename the nation’s capital.
Washington owned slaves.
According to Wikipedia2, Hollywood needs to rename at last 12 more streets to be “slave-owner-free.”
Both leading generals in the war owned slaves, but no one seems to criticize U.S. Grant.
- As an aside, Arlington National Cemetery, in which NO Confederate soldier is buried, is the former estate of Gen. Robert E. Lee; his former home can be seen on a hill overlooking the cemetery.
Given that 12 U.S. presidents were slave owners, perhaps the liberals who want to rewrite history should set their sights on renaming all the cities, towns, and streets currently bearing the slave owners’ names.
Rename Washington D.C. as just “D.C.” Washington State will have to be renamed; perhaps using its nickname, “The Evergreen State.”.
How about renaming Georgetown (MA and KY); several forts named for the first president must be renamed. There are at least eight other cities and towns that honor slave owner Geo. Washington. And all the streets. The sign makers and cartographers will rejoice.
What about the Washington Monument. (And Jefferson’s as well?) Tear them down?
Pull down the statutes and take down the paintings, especially the one’s of General George standing in a row boat – bad form and dangerous, too.
And all those statutes and images in schools and government buildings.
Missouri will have to rename its capital. Jefferson may have more cities, towns, and streets named for him than even Washington3. Likewise, his portrait hangs in many public buildings. Pull them down.
So far, only two presidents have been addressed. There are 10 more to go.
In addition to the slave-owing presidents, there are many towns and streets honoring Confederates. In Charleston WV there are three statutes on the State House lawn: Stonewall Jackson, Lincoln, and a Blue coat soldier4. Further along Kanawah (pronounced Ka-naw) Blvd. is a small area dedicated to the men who chose to wear Grey. The monument includes the name of a black man.
The monument is so unobtrusive that unless anyone walks along the boulevard, most people don’t know it’s there.
The people pulling down statutes of people they know little or nothing about, who lived in different times, are most kindly described as “ignorant.” They simply don’t know, nor do that want to know, the history of the country.
To them, it seems that all they know about slavery is Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
No one will argue that some slaves were mistreated, but consider: a slave was a major investment. A smart slave owner would never mistreat an investment anymore than a modern farmer would allow a tractor to rust or the engine to freeze up due to lack of maintenance.
The reality, despite what some hate mongers would lead us to believe, is not Uncle Tom’s Cabin any more typical than Uncle Remus (Song of the South) represents the life of all slaves on a plantation is typical.
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/ycchozk4
2. http://tinyurl.com/ycoumxe5, http://tinyurl.com/y7ut8uv4 , http://tinyurl.com/y9k5bgpl
3. http://tinyurl.com/ybxs54xr
4. http://tinyurl.com/y9t3catf
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