After watching a Confederate statue torn down by demonstrators yesterday in Durham, NC, I cannot help wondering how far this nonsense will go. It was as if a statue of Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler was being torn down.
Sam Houston's statue in Houston is under fire because he was a slave owner, even though he opposed secession. Numerous monuments are on the chopping block as well.
Where do we draw the line on this ?
Should the U.S. flag be banned because it can represent the genocide of the American Indian or because it was displayed at KKK rallies early on ?
Should all that the Founding Fathers did be disbanded because many were slave owners or supported slavery ?
Was the Southern cause evil ? If it was only about "slavery, slavery, slavery !" as Ken Burns claims, why were 95% of Confederate soldiers NON-slave owners ?
Should the Confederate battle flag be viewed the same way as the Nazi swastika ?
Were Confederate soldiers akin to Nazi SS troops ?
Was the cause to defend of states' rights invalid or corrupt ?
Is there no hypocrisy in the United States defeating the South, thereby ending slavery.....then finishing its genocide of the American Indian in the West after the war ?
Having last visited Gettysburg in early 2015 (I try to go at least every other year and have been there 18-20 times since 1990), I'm now wondering if the demonization of the Southern cause has cast its shadow over the town and battlefield.
I'm not attempting to stir things up here....I am wanting some opinions from you, knowing that there are those here that have a deep interest in history and perhaps a better understanding of it than me.
Sam Houston's statue in Houston is under fire because he was a slave owner, even though he opposed secession. Numerous monuments are on the chopping block as well.
Where do we draw the line on this ?
Should the U.S. flag be banned because it can represent the genocide of the American Indian or because it was displayed at KKK rallies early on ?
Should all that the Founding Fathers did be disbanded because many were slave owners or supported slavery ?
Was the Southern cause evil ? If it was only about "slavery, slavery, slavery !" as Ken Burns claims, why were 95% of Confederate soldiers NON-slave owners ?
Should the Confederate battle flag be viewed the same way as the Nazi swastika ?
Were Confederate soldiers akin to Nazi SS troops ?
Was the cause to defend of states' rights invalid or corrupt ?
Is there no hypocrisy in the United States defeating the South, thereby ending slavery.....then finishing its genocide of the American Indian in the West after the war ?
Having last visited Gettysburg in early 2015 (I try to go at least every other year and have been there 18-20 times since 1990), I'm now wondering if the demonization of the Southern cause has cast its shadow over the town and battlefield.
I'm not attempting to stir things up here....I am wanting some opinions from you, knowing that there are those here that have a deep interest in history and perhaps a better understanding of it than me.