Tampa is going to fly a gigantic Confedrate flag and I am glad!
What?!? The sons of Confederate Veterans are about to erect this huge eyesore at the intersection of two major Florida highways and I'm glad about it? Darn Skippy I am. I wish these flags were flying all over the South. As Black American (never been to Africa so in no way do I have a claim to being African), I have more of a claim to that flag than the racist idiots who chose to defile it's meaning for their own agenda.
In order to understand why I make that claim you must first accept the fact that we have all been lied to about the Civil War.
It was not the "war to free the slaves". The Union had five slave holding member states West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. If the only purpose of the war was to free the slaves, then these states would have been a part of the Confederacy and they were not.
The other lie we have been told is that Blacks only fought for the North and if for some reason a black did fight for the South he was the odd individual. Well there were somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 odd individuals out there fighting in mostly integrated units. Blacks who fought for the confederacy were mostly free men. There was a concentrated effort to erase the contribution of blacks during the civil war. You can see this on many of the documents that survive today. In places where a black is originally identified as a soldier, "soldier" has been crossed out and replaced with "body servant" or some other such term.
The movie Glory starring Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick insured everyone knew about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, but how many of you have heard of the 1st Louisiana Regiment of Native Guards? This Confederate unit had a history going back to the War of 1812. Why is it that we don't hear about them? Could it be the fact that they were free men of color who had seen combat already? Or the fact that their commanding officer was a free man of color, plantation owner and slave owner? And this man led his unit for the North. That doesn't exactly fit the Stereotypical view we've been fed by history does it?
It's time to let the facts be known instead of fairy tales designed to demonize the South and make the North look like some great savior. The black American has just as much right to claim our Southern heritage as any other American. We have just as much right to know the truth about the blacks who fought and died for the South as we do the black who fought and died for the North. There are plenty of resources available on the Civil War and on the Confederacy one of the best is the Black Confederate Soldiers Page
37th Texas Regiment
In order to understand why I make that claim you must first accept the fact that we have all been lied to about the Civil War.
It was not the "war to free the slaves". The Union had five slave holding member states West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. If the only purpose of the war was to free the slaves, then these states would have been a part of the Confederacy and they were not.
The other lie we have been told is that Blacks only fought for the North and if for some reason a black did fight for the South he was the odd individual. Well there were somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 odd individuals out there fighting in mostly integrated units. Blacks who fought for the confederacy were mostly free men. There was a concentrated effort to erase the contribution of blacks during the civil war. You can see this on many of the documents that survive today. In places where a black is originally identified as a soldier, "soldier" has been crossed out and replaced with "body servant" or some other such term.
The movie Glory starring Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick insured everyone knew about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, but how many of you have heard of the 1st Louisiana Regiment of Native Guards? This Confederate unit had a history going back to the War of 1812. Why is it that we don't hear about them? Could it be the fact that they were free men of color who had seen combat already? Or the fact that their commanding officer was a free man of color, plantation owner and slave owner? And this man led his unit for the North. That doesn't exactly fit the Stereotypical view we've been fed by history does it?
It's time to let the facts be known instead of fairy tales designed to demonize the South and make the North look like some great savior. The black American has just as much right to claim our Southern heritage as any other American. We have just as much right to know the truth about the blacks who fought and died for the South as we do the black who fought and died for the North. There are plenty of resources available on the Civil War and on the Confederacy one of the best is the Black Confederate Soldiers Page
37th Texas Regiment
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Comments (10)
Cheryl Baumgartner12
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
You are welcome Jean but don't feel like you are by yourself, most Americans don't know this part of our history. It's an uncomfortable subject. It puts the Civil war and all or deeply held beliefs in a new light.
Jean DAndrea7
Retired
Well, I've learned something today! Wasn't aware of this part of US history
at all. What an eye opener. Thankyou Cheryl.
Cheryl Baumgartner12
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
Hey Jenn you may just have to drive down and take a picture for me. I'm still debating whether or not to put a Swasticka bumper sticker on my car LOL! I do love to stir the pot but that is another blog in it''s own right!
Jennifer Underwood11
Promoter
I am just going to shut up about it...until I get my shit together to say something about it. (did I hear a HELL YEAH).....hehehe! :0)
Jennifer Underwood11
Promoter
Well, Ga had this flag to solute our state. And I know the man personally that got rid of it. Unfortunately. Grew up loving this man.....well. It is what it is....and well, I am so proud to see that the truth of it is understood. It is a beautiful flag...that means a lot to this country *world*. The further it is done a way with...well.
I have to 'renig' on my feelings about the war. Seek and ye shall find. I am finding the truth. I understand and am well.......just not even worried about it any
Cheryl Baumgartner12
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
There was actually an effort in progress to raise all black units in the South, this plan was approved by Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee and many other high ranking Confederate officers. It was also well known to them that slavery would be dealt it's death blow through the creation of these all black units. There were looking to muster 300,000 black troops who would all have earned their freedom by their service.
There were really no all black units in the South, southern military units were i
Jennifer Underwood11
Promoter
Amen Sister!
Jeff Greene8
Online Marketing Specialist/Consultant
Actually, I think it should be the British Flag...
I'm beginning to believe that the so-called American Revolution might have been a giant corporate scam.. But that's just me...
Cheryl Baumgartner12
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
The truly sad part is that the "Sheeple", knowing that the government lies to them on a regular basis accept these thinks as truth.The Government has spun several huge lies about the Civil war. One of my favorites is "The Great Emancipator" myth. We have been taught the Abraham Lincoln is among our greatest presidents because he freed the slaves. Yet when you look back to some of the statements he made just a few years prior to the war you understand that he was anything but a friend to the s
Jeff Greene8
Online Marketing Specialist/Consultant
The book "Complicity" has detailed The North's role in the slave trade:
http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-slavery,0,3581810.special
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts.... A lot writers can be accused of being "Revisionists" of a sort when it comes to so-called American History.... I'm still quite disturbed by the memory of my elementary "history" books that were absolutely false, faked and totally geared towards social brainwashing...
Even my beloved Canada and Australia'