“I’ll be giving my personal opinions today”.
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Yes, the Civil War was over states’ rights. To “commemorate” the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, the flag went up on April 11, 1961.
Based on recently adopted state academic standards, these new textbooks have been accused of ignoring racial segregation, downplaying the Ku Klux Klan, and suggesting that slavery was a secondary force behind the Civil War. After a 9-year campaign by both the city of San Antonio and the state of Texas, the United Nations officially declared that the Alamo and four Spanish colonial Catholic missions in San Antonio a World Heritage Site, which makes the phrase “Remember the Alamo!” on par with other sites like Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal.
There will be two public forums on the future of the Confederate general statues on the University of Texas campus.
Dee Christensen II: The flag, of course, represented multiple things to different peoples. Until then, removing the flag from government buildings is the least we can do. Unfortunately, this perspective is too narrow: The Confederate flag is not petrified in the 1860s, only to be safely observed in a historical context. We need to take the traumatic massacre of the Emanuel Nine and use it as a way to accelerate the struggle for freedom and justice. Others said they’re weren’t sure.
REUTERS/Adrees LatifThe Texas and Confederate flags fly from a cart as revelers gather along the Boulevard of the Republic at the Republic of Texas (ROT) Biker Rally in Austin, Texas June 13, 2015.
Because of that bloody history, the Confederate flag does have special meaning to Minnesotans and the state does have a tattered flag from a Virginia infantry group that was seized by a private from Minnesota, who claimed the flag as a spoil of war.
In materialistic terms, a flag is nothing more than a piece of fabric reflecting a distinctive symbol. At the same time, its association over the years has created a mass grudge against the symbol, according to Jackson.
“I think we are at last seeing the de-Confederatization of America”, Loewen said. Destroying these memorials would erase important evidence of the way that history – and not just in the South – has been interpreted to justify oppression and uphold white supremacy. Those who are offended by the Confederate flag might transfer their ill feelings to abortion clinics.
Jackson says that in tragic situations, the majority tends to rail against a symbol. People are pretty ticked off about it.
However, he also believes there are ways that stigma can be turned around. The brotherhood would mean more to me than my pride.
Topped with a bronze figure of a Confederate Soldier.
Ironically, one of the most advanced southern states, in terms of teaching history as honestly as it can be, is South Carolina.
According to Jackson, the North had its agenda as well.
“Man, it’s all about slavery”, he said.
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Jackson explains that the economy of the South depended on cotton and other crops.
