Do you feel it was appropriate for them to have had to change their name?
2007-05-19 16:41:20 · 8 answers · asked by Lynn U 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Not only no, but HE_ _ NO! One of my detractor here recently called me a neo-Confederate trouble is I'll wear the title with pride. Thank God I am tenured.
God Bless The Southern People.
2007-05-19 17:03:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Painting "Confederate Air Force" on the tail of a P-51 Mustang in 1957 might have been a joke, but a pretty insensitive one. Nowadays it would have been a massive blunder. So they changed it five years ago. Get over it. Ever hear about the Tuskegee Airmen? They flew Mustangs too.
2007-05-19 23:58:04 · answer #2 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, nor the names of schools, bridges and parks. Wait until the Mexicans changes the name of Martin Luther King drive and they will!
I want to see how many people write to say there was no Confederate Air Force.
2007-05-19 23:51:34 · answer #3 · answered by gooksshotme 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was unaware that such a change had occurred, but I checked the Confederate Air Force's history and found that the word "confederate" has been changed due to "objections" by corporate sponsors of the group. This is another example of the never-ending attempt to appease all groups. Althought he Confederate Air Force was named as a "joke" and never intended to be either political or socially incorrect, it was forced by social pressure to change its name. How pathetic.
To answer your question, I am absolutely against such changes to historical entities. Just as I am against changing any "historical" entity for the sake of today's "politically correct" standards.
The process of being "politically correct" in every situation is so assinine, it would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic.
When history is "rewritten" to eliminate violations of today's political standards, we are erasing truth, we are ignoring reality, we are destroying our own integrity.
Example: I don't like the N-word (note that I am reluctant to say the word, although we all know what it is), and I don't want it to be used in the future, but it was used throughout history because it once was a part of American culture. Therefore, deleting the word from literary works of art (many of Mark Twain's books, for example) is totally assinine.
I welcome all responses. But don't expect to change my mind. I am mature enough and intelligent enough to know right from wrong, and editing history in a futile attempt to correct injustices in the past is both wrong and futile.
2007-05-20 00:20:06 · answer #4 · answered by BC 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, their was a Confederate Airforce during the Civil War. They were simple hot air balloons and dropped propaganda on cities.
2007-05-20 00:17:46 · answer #5 · answered by Information man 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yup. They had fliers from the north, the real CSA didn't have heavier-thn-air craft (Although they had balloons) and the modern ones didn't want any of those Tuskeegee Airmen reliving their youth and shooting them down out of spite.
2007-05-19 23:51:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They had to change their name? That's too bad. Just another case of a vocal minority imposing their will on the silent majority.
2007-05-19 23:54:36 · answer #7 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I think their contribution to historic restoration and educational airshows earns them the right to have an American name. They have a cool name.
2007-05-19 23:51:10 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋