By now I hope everyone has heard of the bill in the Georgia Senate to create a Confederate History Month. I was prompted to write this post after reading other blogger's comments about the Bill.
I think this is a horrible bill and I'm scared that this is moving forward.
The historical context of the confederacy has a serious racist background. The confederacy represents a divided nation that split due to slavery. After the civil war ended as well as reconstruction, the idea of such a strong pride of the confederacy died down. At the beginning of height of the Civil Rights Movement, there was an emergence of the Confederate flag as well as the idea of the Confederate states. This was a symbol of rebelling against the idea of equality for blacks.
Now the Republican-led Georgia General Assembly is race baiting with the idea of commemorating this dark side of American history. I think its deplorable that anyone would even consider an entire month to celebrate this. I'm hoping at least 8 republicans vote against this. If the General Assembly passes this, I think they would have to concurrently pass a resolution apologizing for slavery.
Another factor we must examine is the financial impact of something like this. There will be calls from numerous civil rights organizations to boycott Georgia. On the bright side, this may energize the Black community in a remarkable way. We may see turnout in 2008 explode and make a serious impact in many elections.
5 comments:
Brainwashed BS
This is a perfect example of someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.
You need to study history and learn the truth before you go blogging.
What the hell is everyone else talking about? This man is right. Setting aside a whole month for something so controversial is wrong. Maybe people don't know the whole story but in the end, the confederacy had fought for slavery. Maybe not everyone agrees but maybe we should set aside a month for the North as well instead of just the confederacy.
What a shame they don't teach history in school any better than that. How could the author get it so wrong?
what are you an idiot or something? I seriously would like to know who wrongly taught you history because they are brainwashing innocent southern children into thinking their ancestors were wrong. AND THAT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. If you have a problem Georgia's Confederate History, GET OUT OF GEORGIA. Matter of fact just get out of the South. I am proud of Georgia for finally honoring their dead soldiers, black and white, who fought for our glorious country, the confederacy. Now, its time for you to learn the south fought to retain a limited govt. in which it was intended by the founging fathers. I guess you would rather a dictatorship run by lincoln than a democracy run by Davis. Oh, let me guess, you probabaly don't even know who President Davis is since you lack in the knowledge of the south.
I hope your kind don't prevail.
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