Post by X factor on Jul 27, 2013 9:41:54 GMT -5
Why is it OK, and almost encouraged for Confederate Southerners to remember, cherish, and derive their identity from the past, yet not OK for say American Indians, or decendents of slaves, to do the same??
According to talk radio type conservatives, when decendents of slaves, dare look into their past, remember their past (as does the Confederate south does), derive their identity from their past struggles, it's some how 'baaaaaad'....discouraged...
Yet when white, southern, confederate citizens do the same...it's looked at as 'gooooood' by the same conservatives who say it's baaaaad for blacks to remember their past.
Why is that?
How come, in the minds of Conservatives, Fox News types, how come to them...it's OK for Confederates to remember, cherish, derive their identities from their past struggles and heritage, yet it's bad for decendents of slaves to do the same?
The civil war has been over for how long?
Yet Confederate types, who hand the memories down from one generation to another, still celebrate and honor their 'great past'....
It's looked at as a good thing, when white confederate types remember, and celebrate their past...yet when Decendents of slaves do the same...they're told...'Oh, just let the past go away'...
Like being sprayed down by powerful, skin bruising water hoses simply for peacefully marching down road.
The pain and scars this left in the minds of those effected are just suppose to be forgotten in hours, yet Confederate types are allowed, encouraged, to keep their history, and past struggles alive...and to even form modern day identities, based on past Confederate ideals...
In Summeray...Confederates are allowed, encouraged to remember, learn from, derive identity from their heritage, where as decendants of slaves or told, by Conservatives to 'Oh, just let the past go'....
We will explore this in more detail in up coming posts...