[Vision2020] Just an idea

[Phil Nisbet]

Since one of the concerns expressed is that some folks who are part of a 
group called Sons of the Conferacy are running about, why not organize 
something like Sons of the Grand Army of the Republic?  My Great Great 
Grandfather and my Great Grandfather were both members of that organization, 
which was a service organization like the American Legion or the VFW.  You 
could use a spin off like it to highlight some of the great men who risked 
much to spread freedom following the Civil War like Joseph Hayne Rainey, for 
just one example 
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/939/Joseph_Rainey_was_the_first_Black_congressman___

As I have noted previously, highlighting the actual situation that slavery 
was and dealing with it in a why we had to fight the Civil War manner is the 
best approach to solving revisionism.  I find it funny that many historians 
who have previously taken a revisionist approach and tried to make the Civil 
War seem something other than a battle to end slavery were often hailed as 
brilliant by those of the left.  Their revisionism leads in a straight line 
to the kinds of revisionist Confederate system as Good Massa that you are 
now seeing.

There are just wars.  The Civil War was one of them.  So indeed was World 
War Two.  Revisionism that attempts to impart improper motives in either war 
allows the kind of Holocaust Denial and Slavery denial movements their 
opportunity to play as if they had a historical basis.

The bulk of those in the south did not own slaves.  The bulk of the south 
were duped into fighting for the slave ownership of a few very wealthy 
aristocratic families.  The bulk of poor whites were in just as nasty a bind 
as the poor slaves or the black freeman.  They were kept illeducated and 
told lies with regards to what the war aims of the Confederacy were.

So teach it and bring the ediface of supposed pride in the antebellum south, 
that treated the bulk of its people as chattels, not just the slaves, but 
its poor whites and free blacks as well, down arond the ears of the 
revisionists.

Phil Nisbet

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