America’s War On The Confederacy Is Really A War On The Past

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The Federalist: America’s War On The Confederacy Is Really A War On The Past

Banning displays of the Confederate flag and removing monuments of Confederate leaders amounts to a war on the past. But it won't help us to overcome it.

By John Daniel Davidson / MAY 24, 2016

When South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from its prominent place on the state capitol grounds in the aftermath of the Charleston church massacre last year, she managed to show respect for those who see the flag as an important part of Southern heritage and American history. “That flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state,” she said. Instead, the flag would be displayed in a museum, where it belongs.

 

But it wasn’t enough just to remove the flag from state houses and official buildings. Across the country, universities and municipal governments began floating the idea of removing Confederate monuments and renaming schools and buildings that bear the names Confederate leaders. Some protestors even called for the desecration of Confederate graves.

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A Christian Defense of the South

 

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May 12, 2016

 

It is said that the more things change, the more they stays the same. This has proven more than a mere cliche in the aftermath of the horrifying events in Charleston, SC last year. When racial animosity failed to materialize in the wake of the shootings at a predominantly African-American Church, Progressive political elements made the call to eliminate Southern culture in what has been dubbed by one media figure as a “cultural genocide”. Despite the fact that Charleston responded with prayer when other cities responded with riots, it was the symbols of the South and those who revered those symbols that were said to be at blame for the tragic deaths. Confederate flag supporters were called bigots while they were still on their knees praying for those killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a fact that mitigated nothing in the eyes of the protesters or their accomplices in the media.

 

History isn’t just written by the victors. It is also simplified by the victors so it can be taught to children. One does not need to be more Machiavellian than that to understand the motive of “Northern” historical proponents for silencing or ignoring data that contradicts their narrative of the War.http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/a-christian-defense-of-the-south/