Dove's Eye View, on flying the Confederate flag in an Independence Day parade…
Why pledge allegiance to "one nation, indivisible" if you're going to break that pledge by flying the flag of those who sought to divide it?
…or frankly, at all.
Posted by P6 at July 9, 2004 06:50 AM
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The most hate mail I ever received was, pre-blogging days, when I pointed out on a history Listserv that Robert E. Lee, personal probity and military genius notwithstanding, was a traitor. And here I thought that was a simple statement of fact " levying war " clause and all. Well, some ppl on the List who had liked a lot of what I had previously written went completely nuts.
Posted by mark safranski at July 9, 2004 09:26 AMI got into a brief flame battle on a newsgroup once with a (white, Tennessee) woman who insisted that the Civil War wasn't about defending slavery, it was about *economics*. ??? I went to h.s. in the South, after integration, and I'd never heard such a crazy rationalization.
My mother, the (white) Southerner who went to jail after a lunch counter sit-in, explained that this was the line she was taught in school in the 1950s. She remembered her history teacher, Miss B---, saying exactly that. This is how many white people in the South justified (justify?) the Civil War. Not all white people, of course - see my mother & her Methodist, NAACP-supporting friends.
Posted by Leila at July 9, 2004 12:01 PMLee was a traitor. So was Washington et al. Whether someone is a traitor or not depends on where your loyalties lie.
By the way, Leila: since their economy was based on slavery I'd accept your friend's statement with little comment. Maybe I'd note that the North was fighting secession not slavery. Maybe not.