Civil War museum closes rather than remove its Confederate flags
The coming dark age: A Civil War museum is forced to close when Virginia county officials ordered them to remove all Confederate flags.
A Henry County commissioner requested a few months ago that a local Civil War museum remove its Confederate flags.
But without that symbol, the Nash Farm Battlefield and Museum announced that it can’t conduct its mission properly and will close June 1. In a Facebook post, the museum’s directors cited the request by District 2 Commissioner Dee Clemmons that all Confederate flags be removed from the museum, in addition to the gift shop, “in an effort not to offend anyone.”
“To exclude any Confederate flag would mean the historical value has been taken from our exhibits, and a fair interpretation could not be presented to each guest,” the post read. “Confederate flags were on this hallowed ground, as were the Union flags. To remove either of them would be a dishonor.”
In other words, it is better now for people to be ignorant of history so that they might avoid looking at a flag.
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The coming dark age: A Civil War museum is forced to close when Virginia county officials ordered them to remove all Confederate flags.
A Henry County commissioner requested a few months ago that a local Civil War museum remove its Confederate flags.
But without that symbol, the Nash Farm Battlefield and Museum announced that it can’t conduct its mission properly and will close June 1. In a Facebook post, the museum’s directors cited the request by District 2 Commissioner Dee Clemmons that all Confederate flags be removed from the museum, in addition to the gift shop, “in an effort not to offend anyone.”
“To exclude any Confederate flag would mean the historical value has been taken from our exhibits, and a fair interpretation could not be presented to each guest,” the post read. “Confederate flags were on this hallowed ground, as were the Union flags. To remove either of them would be a dishonor.”
In other words, it is better now for people to be ignorant of history so that they might avoid looking at a flag.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
in lighter news– I heard the chocolate ration, is being increased to 25 grams next week.
Who Controls the Past, Controls the Future
https://youtu.be/oe9I0QhV08w
(6:42)
I guess this means we have to close all the holocaust museums now, because they display Nazi uniforms, flags, etc.
@Wayne: Despite, these hateful, real fascist activities, in the so-called land of the free: We will never forget your Confederate heroes. A good way to achieve this objective, is to sing Confederate songs. I love these songs.
Dixie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__kQX12S9YI
THE IRISH BRIGADE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ot7amDyqbY&list=RDQMbLFwbmezdD8
WEARING OF THE GREY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XVsEVW4x_Q&index=6&list=PLuxfKFwwTllClfsR5gCXaTY0HbKU7eZSm
The Bonnie Blue Flag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3WAhbulFs
Garry–
well stated.
I would like to add this piece from Canadian immigrant to the topic:
5 reasons not to ban the Confederate flag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbvDRY0O30E
Alex-
Gavin as always good.
Wayne, nice reference to1984! Memory hole for sure.
Joe–
they always claim, to raise the chocolate ration… that’s when you can tell they are lying.
Alex– referencing the Civil War
Plenty of good people died on both sides.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Jesus’ Chariot (She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain)
https://youtu.be/0NghGoIdv-E
(4:43)
The current focus on the Confederate flag has nothing to do with the Civil War but rather trying to impose collective guilt and punishment on the people who live in the South now, who bear no responsibility for slavery. It is all part of a deliberate strategy to dehumanize and punish the South since they stopped voting for Democrats in the last 17 years.
wodun–
Well said.
Very good!
Alabama moves to protect Confederate monuments
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/335283-alabama-moves-to-protect-confederate-monuments
Dinesh D’Souza
“What if their Plan, is to Steal America?”
https://youtu.be/r7e6gLht6OQ
(3:09)
Changing history or not acknowledging historical facts is not acceptable for a museum. These actions may be acceptable for a politician, but a museum has a mission to preserve history, the bad along with the good. A museum does not exist in order to not offend anyone, as plenty of offensive actions have happened throughout history, but perhaps politicians exist to avoid offending someone. Those offensive actions must also be recorded and preserved, otherwise how would the politician know to be offended by the Confederate flag?
The violation of the basic purpose of any museum is why the museum in Henry County closed.
And why aren’t the feelings those who have actually been offended by the removal of the flags not a concern of the stupid politician?
When the politicians and the government are the ones determining the history, well, wayne described the result of that. The government steals history and even the country itself.
Edward-
Good stuff.
>Short, sweet, and to the point
Holy cow. We had a huge, deadly, all encompassing Civil War, right on American soil. Brother against Brother. That is our History and I don’t want or need Mastermind’s rewriting history to suit their devious machinations.
I want it all; the good, the bad, and the ugly.
If we don’t remember the Past, we will surely repeat the mistakes, and as a Conservative, I value the lessons of the past.
@Edward:
How defines, which part of history is good and which is bad? This thinking reminds me to communist/leftist ideology.
There is only the view of the victor, who tries to rewrite true historical path, often successful. Not, only the South is victim of such doing, but also Germany for example. Imagine, the Confederation had won the Civil war. How different history is now told and Lincoln is being judged.
Call it an art museum and watch them try to stifle free speech.
That flag was an artistic expression of the southern solder.
pzatchok– call it an art museum…. Great stuff!
Alex wrote: “How defines, which part of history is good and which is bad? This thinking reminds me to communist/leftist ideology.
“There is only the view of the victor, who tries to rewrite true historical path, often successful.”
Which is why a museum wants to present both sides of a dispute, preferably without judgement. Why did the presented event happen? Why did the dispute get decided in the way it did and how did the decision change the world?
The politician involved in this story is trying to suppress the story of the Confederate states. In fact, the reality of the situation seems to have been lost on far too many people, who think that it was pure racism rather than an inheritance from the days of English rule. Indeed, all too many believe that the US Constitution was written to support slavery rather than the reality in which it was written for the future elimination of slavery. As an example, see the US Constitution Article I, Section 9 Item 1, which prohibits the importation of slaves after 20 years, and provides a tax as a disincentive for slaves in the meantime. The Article I Section 2 Item 3 counted slaves as three fifths of a person specifically so that the slave states would not have the political power to prevent the emancipation of the slaves, but the southern states out maneuvered the northern abolitionists by requiring a portion of new states to be slave states.
Was the South bad for their situation, or was King George of England the bad one for imposing the situation onto the South? Should the museum be making a case for which side is good, which is bad, and which is ugly, or should it present the facts and let the museum visitor decide for himself? How can the visitor do that if the facts are changed to suit the sensibilities of various politicians?
General Robert E. Lee may have been fighting for the losing side, which may or may not have been the bad side, but to deny that he was an excellent and important general is to deny historical facts and to disrespect his memory and his rightful place in history. The Union had a more difficult time winning the war because of Lee’s skills and talents.
The Confederate States may have stood for slavery, but the Confederacy was an important factor in the history of slavery, the heritage that King George left the United States, and the eventual liberation of the slaves. To deny the Confederate flag is to deny this important aspect of the Emancipation Proclamation, the freeing of slaves in the US, and the modern attitudes about slavery.
As I asked in my previous comment, above: without knowing history, how would the Henry County commissioner know to be offended by the Confederate flag?
Another example is the question of why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. How many people know the answer to this question? The movie “Tora, Tora, Tora!” does a good job of presenting the Japanese point of view of the world events that led to that attack.
A final example is the question of why Muslims flew airplanes into New York’s World Trade center 60 years later. Few people have any clue about the why of this, because too many Social (In)Justice Wombats try to convince us that it was our own fault.
The coming dark age? This is the coming dark age:
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/islam-track-overtake-christianity-worlds-no-1-religion/
Make no mistake about it, paradoxically this is the result of Western civilizations success. Western philosophy promotes a more liberal and inclusive culture and the culture that they are including will in the end, if nothing is done to tamp it down, consume it.
These two cultures should not be held as equal, they are not. They in fact are fundamentally 180 degrees opposed to each other. Western, Liberal, Democrat philosophy has a hole in it and will in time insist that we all commit cultural suicide as a matter of a politically correct course.
Hi Wayne:
Here is brilliant truth piece for you and it may open your eyes (if being closed)!
Is White Nationalism Un-American?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nWl3doLnI
Edward said:
“….And why aren’t the feelings those who have actually been offended by the removal of the flags not a concern of the stupid politician?…”
THAT is the ultimate question isn’t it? We are no longer a majority-rule country, we are sliding into a Tyranny of the (Loudest) Minority.
Alex–
You worry me sometimes.
(but, I’m sure the same, has & will be said, of me.)
Mark Levin:
“Nationalism, Populism, Patriotism, Republicanism, and Americanism..”
February 07 2017
https://youtu.be/fnmwVNealfw
(10:12)