You cannot go back and decide today what a person’s motives, experience, and understanding were—a hundred years later! We won the Civil War; we raped and pillaged the South and taxed away their land until all they had left was the difference of opinion that lived in the bronze statues and flags, saying I felt differently from you. Nearly 300,000 souls died in the South and were buried under a different flag—one that is banned today—but morons still wave flags with swastikas on them. Any historian will tell you it wasn’t all about slavery.
Should we remove Jefferson from our coins and history books because he had slaves (as did Washington and most others at that time)? Are we going to decide that Germans should have known about 6 million Jews and take fresh action against them today for what happened 70 years ago? Do we boycott Mercedes and BMW and beer? When do we start a Pearl Harbor hate month: "Sushi is un-American!"?
What other retro arrogance can we now bathe in to cleanse ourselves against histories that are now viewed in black and white but that were made in color? If those histories became "lessons," so be it—use them as such. I wonder who will be first to suggest that we burn all Laura Ingalls Wilder books in the name of the view from over here now—and how very right we are!
Who makes up this shit?! Michael Landon must be turning over in his grave.
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