ANALYSIS/OPINION:
BOCA GRANDE, FLA. — Since the beginning of time, the spoils have always gone to the victors. And they get to write history, too.
So here, on the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg, Southerners are once again reminded how badly it sucks to lose.
To hear it told today, the Confederacy was nothing more than a hotbed of racist slavers and murderers. The gallant Yankees were nothing short of a pristine band of heroes laying down their lives to set men free. The whole ordeal was about nothing other than putting an end to the abomination that was slavery.
Add in the farcical state of education in the U.S. today — especially the lack of teaching of actual history that actually happened — and you have a perfect storm of pollyannish fantasy that condemns yet another generation to ignorance and gives today’s social engineers yet another false parable to advance their goofy and twisted agendas.
The Gettysburg specials on the History Channel are, of course, told exclusively from the Northern perspective. This is neither new nor surprising. To the winners go the spoils.
But the truly barbaric caricature of the Confederate soldiers is appalling. Great focus on the rebel yell cries. Cameras zoom in on jumbled, yellowed teeth for full screen shots while guttural, animalistic shrieks play at full-volume.
More @ The Washington Times
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/352546/guilty-being-southern-lee-habeeb
Don't hate me for posting a link to a National Review article. :)
Saw a comment recently we need to build a border fence but it should be built along the Mason- Dixon line instead of the Mexican border.
Terry
Fla.
we need to build a border fence but it should be built along the Mason- Dixon line instead of the Mexican border.
DeleteThanks and lets have Claymores every 5 feet.:)
Don't need a fence, just make I95 a one way road, going north.
ReplyDeleteI still like Claymores at the Mason-Dixon Line and the border.:) The border idea was from my cousin, a West Point graduate who because of his graduating standing, could choose another service, so he chose Marine Aviation and had 120 missions over North Vietnam. His father retired from the Marines after 40 years, lived another 40 and his wife died but a few years ago. Talk about retirement benefits.:)
DeleteRead the link to the WT and all the comments. I could tell who was from the North and who was from the South. Some things must be unlearned and studied again to understand our history. (And it ain't easy sometimes) :0)
ReplyDeleteBut you're shore' doin' a good job, honey, chile', bless your heart!:)
DeleteSadly, the truth always looses to propaganda. The Civil War like every other war in history is told by the victors. Truth has nothing to do with the stories. The history is there just to prove that God and right was on their side and good won over evil.
ReplyDeleteRemember Bosnia? History currently says we were they to "help" the Muslims and save them from extermination. Slobodan Milošević I believe was convicted of crimes against humanity. Looking at the world today perhaps we should have joined Slobodan Milošević and helped. None of right or wrong matters history will be written by the eventual winner. So in 200 years will Slobodan Milošević be a criminal or visionary?
Badger
So in 200 years will Slobodan Milošević be a criminal or visionary?
ReplyDeleteSome good points and a good question to boot?