Discussions are already underway concerning how people will celebrate and remember the 150th anniversary of the start of the war of Northern Aggression. In a recent article by Diane Haag in the Shreveport Times, she talks to leaders about the issue. The article is encouraging in that people are preparing for the anniversary and beginning a dialogue. The distressing item is what historian Gary Joiner said regarding how he and others like him need to take charge and ‘educate’ the public rather than allowing the anniversary to be hi-jacked by those with less than honorable intentions by the neo-secessionists. (I guess that some historians want selective portions of history recalled rather than the whole spectrum (i.e. political correctness at its best) We can’t have them Southrons knowing the real reason their for-fathers fought for freedom can we? If those Southrons find out what actually happened, how it happened and why it happened they might get uppity and no longer be content at their status of boot-licking subservients).  The educational establishment has routinely presented history to keep the people in line and maintain the myths of the empire. Since all empires are founded on myths, maintaining those myths are essential.

Free Texas!

J Murrah

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