Get Your History Right.
So I got frustrated when I saw the gov of Virginia got in trouble for having a month to honor the confederacy. Now i know that we all like to think that Slavery was what the civil war was about, but despite what your 3rd grade teacher told you there were actually issues that at that time seemed more important to the people who control governments. I know that slavery is wrong and that it affected a large amount of people terribly, but the people in charge were arguing over matters more important to them. There were many political disagreements an unfair tariifs imposed from the North, but one of the biggest being states rights and the ability for goverment to work from the bottom up not come down from Washington. In all the movies and TV shows it always portrays the Union soldiers as being brave, infallible heroes. But guess what, it is a war against your own people so many are going to be men who do terrible things. The South is always portrayed as stupid evil conniving villains, where many were fighting for what they considered to be their rights, similar to our rebels in the colonies fighting the British. It is not until The Outlaw Josie Wales that we see any of this side. So I am stating again, slavery is wrong! But there are many things that were wrong during the Civil War on both sides. So before we start bashing a man for celebrating the history of his state and the men and women who stood up against their government to fight for their perceived rights. I am glad that we are still a United States, and celebrate the fact that we can oppose our government. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Some Jefferson fellow wrote that.
