He's a Civil War professor in NC.
Someone spray painted a Sons of the Confederates memorial and they tied the story to the flag issue.
On one hand you had one of the men who funded the memorial stating this is about our ancestors who were invaded, the war had nothing to do with slavery.
Then my father (devoted the last 50 years to research and writes his own text books) stating, "The Civil War was all about slavery. Period. It was exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for a majority of Southern whites after the war – and now – to openly state we fought the war in order to maintain a vast system of human bondage. It’s very difficult to confront the central reality. That means looking it in the face. That’s very difficult to do. We’d rather come up with defenses – 'Oh, it’s all about states’ rights."
He's gotten a ton of supportive emails and a good handful of hate mails. Even had one guy in a pickup pull up next to him and thank him for saying what he did.
Go Dad
Those that don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it, and denial is a major reason people never learn... The facts are the facts...
