One of the big current issues in Virginia is the controversy as to where to more the Confedarate museum. It is currently in Richmond, but they are considering moving the museum to Lexingtion, V.A. Alot of blacks are complaining that the museum is a symbol of rascicim, and do not want the museum to exsist at all, claiming that it is offending to them. For me, the museum is a symbol of our heritage, and if it bothers other people, that's just too bad. And I mean, really, why should this bother them, and why should we not be able to have the museum there? There really is no reason that we should have to bend our wills and be walking on glass just so we don't offend anyone.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a rascist, and I know slavery was a terrible thing, but this museum isn't pro- slavery.
2007-04-13 10:32:13 · 13 answers · asked by i'm @ vertigo 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Oh, and "Chi Guy," we're talking about us, not the Nazis. We felt no need to eleminate our inferiors, who are obviously people like you. No more bad analagies, for the sake of pete.
2007-04-13 11:09:55 · update #1
they are brainwashed into thinking the Civil war was to free the slaves.
2007-04-13 10:37:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Denying history is just idiotic. Jews would have a VERY good reason to demand that Auschwitz be demolished, some of the former inmates are even still alive - nobody is still alive from the US civil war. Yet Auschwitz still stands, as a reminder of what must _never be repeated_ To forget this, or deny it, is inviting for it to happen again.
I don't know exactly what the museum contains, but I find it highly unlikely that it's (overtly at least) racist. If it is indeed a celebration of the confederacy and a glorification of slavery and racism, then by all means tear it down. If it is a presentation of facts presented in a neutral way then it should remain. The fact that it is a museum of the conferderate states is just not good enough a reason for it to be racist. Does this mean the declaration of independence is racist because it was made at a time when slavery was legal in the US?
2007-04-13 10:48:13 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I visited that museum a few years ago. I whistled Dixie and bought a book with a 50 dollar bill there. It is on the same grounds as the Confederate White House. Maybe they are planning to expand the park surrounding the CWH or something. I believe it should stay somewhere in Richmond, after all, that was the capital of the Confederacy.
2007-04-13 10:40:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
From my perspective as a man raised in the south, many folks living in the southern United States during the last century embraced the heritage of their confederate ancestors AND discriminatory racial politics. Symbols like the confederate battle flag where easy symbols to adopt for representing white southern pride. It was an easy target for those political organizations that opposed racism. Hence we are brought into today’s ongoing battles about what confederate symbols to allow to be displayed.
The unfortunate reality is that the formation of the confederation had little to do with slavery and more to do with the consolidation of federal power. The evolution of the confederation by society as a symbol of racial suppression is unfortunate as most people involved overlook the historical underpinnings of why so many fought in the war.
2007-04-13 10:59:50 · answer #4 · answered by ycats 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh cmom people. The civil war was about more than slavery. Yes that was part of it.
But as Chi's example of the Nazi Museum. cmon certainly you see a difference between this museum and that museum.
2007-04-13 10:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by sociald 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its not just racism, it is a museum of treason. What if the Nazi museum wanted to move to a state in the US claiming its part of their German heritage?
How does a group of Americans celebrate a war fought to keep Americans enslaved and abused for free labor? Who wants to celebrate the rape of enslaved women and the selling of their children? Not to mention the attempted coup against the US government.
Stop trying to romanticize the most vile period of American history. Let it go...
2007-04-13 10:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Some folks are just born stupid.I take it they don't know that without the south succeeding,and the civil war starting,they might still be picking cotton.
Wise guy:the confederacy was part of our national heritage.The Nazis were part of Germany's.
2007-04-13 10:40:56 · answer #7 · answered by SEA HAG 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
seriously everyone is a racist if u think about it. Because everyone has their own opinions, good or bad. Im not tryin to offend anyone but well there are visual minorities in the States so well anyone can think this meuseum movin is good or bad.
2007-04-13 10:37:16 · answer #8 · answered by me and my life 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The need to realize that the civil war was not over slavery. It was over economics.
It's about Heritage, not hate.
2007-04-13 10:38:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It isn't. People make it racist because they don't like it. It's like Colonel Reb and the vote to redo the MS state flag.
2007-04-13 10:58:01 · answer #10 · answered by Saint 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is OK for them to preserve their heritage but they want to erase all white heritage
2007-04-13 10:40:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋