What exactly is the point of Confederate Heritage Month?

Question

Why are government officials trying to put together an entire month where we will be forced to learn about peole who were intent on keeping Black people enslaved? Why is this considered an important part of American history that needs a whole month to celebrate it? Don't we already discuss how the South lost the war enough in history class?

Answer 1

A panel of lawmakers in Georgia have unanimously given their thumbs up to a plan for a Confederate Heritage Month.
Under the bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Mullis, a Republican whose family owned land on which the Civil War's bloody Battle of Chickamauga was fought, the month of April would honor the memory of the Confederacy and "all those millions of its citizens of various races and ethnic groups and religions who contributed in sundry and myriad ways to the cause of Southern Independence."

It has become popular to “put down” anything to do with the Confederacy, however, it is part of our history and to not recognize it is a major fault. I, for one, hopes that this approach succeeds. That period (as well as the years leading to it) were about far more than slavery.

Answer 2

I think they are ignorant airheads catering to the prejudices of the far right in the South.

It blows my mind that any American would fly the Stars and Bars = that was the Confederate battle flag = it was flown over troops who were trying to destroy the US and who were killing the loyal patriots who were protecting the country and the ideal of democracy.

It is like they are flying Al Qaida's flag as far as I am concerned. And when they want to glorify the history of the Confederacy, I think they might as well come up with National Oppression Month and salute Mao, Stalin, and Castro as well as Jefferson Davis and Co.

Answer 3

The point? That we don't forget. I have news for you: the South didn't lose. Oh, they lost the wat, but came back in a big way afterwards. First, they re-enslaved Blacks, but legally, until the 1960s. Then, they got their "states rights" philosophy back into Government, in a big way. The current administration pretty much governs the Confederate way, which includes using the military to promote an agenda abroad: the Confederates were big on that in their foreign policy.

Also, you might learn some things that make you think. Did you know that only 30% of Southerners owned slaves, but MOST Southerners fought, to the point where the North had to ruin the South, for the system? Why do you think that is? Also, Southerners said that Northerners also practiced slavery: wage slavery. Where Southerners had a responsibility to make sure that their slaves were well clothed, well housed, and well fed, Northern employers could pay their workers next to nothing, and if they starved, so what? What do *you* think? Do you think this has any importance today?

Answer 4

The Civil War wasn't ONLY about slavery. It was also about state's rights. A lot of people fought and died to protect their families and their state. Most of the confederate soldiers were not slave owners at all, only small farmers. Confederate Heritage Month is to remember those people, not the men who were stubbornly holding onto the idea of slavery.

Answer 5

Then whats the point of black history month? Why can't we all just get along seriously and celebrate diversity and share other peoples cultures and give respect to fellow man kind?

Answer 6

I sure hope that this does not happen.
I dislike having the history monthes that we have. If we are American we are all equal and should have just an American history year.

Answer 7

I never knew of it till now.