That's a nice touch! YOU are eloquent, too! And thanks for the kind words, btw!
I just find myself wondering if most of these folks even grasp WHAT it is they're celebrating and honoring and romancing. The very fact that they've sanitized it enough with the - "had nothing to do with slavery. This was ECONOMIC. The "War of Northern Aggression" was about ECONOMICS. Bullshit. I see they found other ways to word it and phrase it to sanitize it and obscure the facts so they don't have to get their hands dirty. They don't have to deal with the reality - what REALLY happened. Embroidering the whole idea with that whole "but they LIKED being slaves! Life was GOOD for them! They WANTED to stay slaves!" SHEESH. Just another attempt to rewrite history and mask what really happened and minimize the grizzly parts and make it all not-so-bad. Render it harmless and even fun. Make it okay.
Well, I think they need to be shown that there really is NOTHING here to feel romantic and wistful about, to wish you could go back to those "good ol' days." Lipstick on a pig - on STEROIDS! Lipstick on a pile of shit, really. There was nothing "good" about those "good ol' days." Let's grow up and get real about it, shall we? Isn't it about time? Quit changing the subject and distracting and obfuscating.Quit AVOIDING THE ISSUE. These are great great grandsons and great great granddaughters of that era and I get the feeling that this is really all they know, all the awareness they have (or that they've been ALLOWED to have) - gotta accentuate the positive! Well, the problem here is that there is not much positive to accentuate. Not much positive to outweigh the HUGE grievance that overrides all those foggy pretty pastel "memories." I'm sure they didn't hear at their grandma's knee about actual slavery and what was done and what was condoned and what was excused away as - just "economics." Nice effort to tweezer out the good parts and just keep those.
It's like tweezering out a splinter, keeping and actually treasuring and caring for the splinter, and throwing the finger away.
It's like a bunch of kids in second grade forcryingoutloud!!!
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