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From: "thomas" <>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [cuzzinz-list] Black journalist defends Confederacy]
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 07:33:27 +1100

I think the Confederacy really missed the boat , when they didn't free there
slaves and make use of these loyal black southerners, just think if Lee had
1000, 000 extra fightingmen say in 1863- 64 or better yet maybe, the south
would have been better off to have made its constitutional claims in court
where they may have had a chance to win. I believe Lincoln didn't have a
choice in what he did once the south seceded he was following in the foot
steps of Washington who put down the west's attempt to secede in the so
called whiskey rebellion, A. Jackson putting down North Carolinas attemps to
secede, I think in 1860 the right to secede was far from a established right
. I only post this to the list to give our southern friends a northern view
they may not other wise get, I have changed some of my views from what I
have read here posted by those of the Confederate "persuasion".
Thomas
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>Here is the column which appeared today in the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Larry,
>who happens to be black, has wanted to get this off his chest in a public
>forum for some time. We prepared this with black history month in mind, and
>the paper bit on it! It appeared on the op-ed page, and is the largest
column
>on it. The logo which has been running all through the paper "Black History
>Month In Celebration" appears as an inset in the column (this is some Black
>history that they haven't yet seen though). - Don Shelton
>
>Headline "Black history distorted by 'political correctness' "
>
>By Larry Sykes
>
> As a black Southerner, I am upset when witness to "knee-jerk" attacks on
>white Southerners such as Merlene Davis' "Class on Slavery Teaches White
Man's
>'Truth'"
>Davis was in quite a lather to preach that a college class claimed by an
>Associated Press reporter to have taught that Southern slaves were "happy"
>should be muzzled. Her basic reaction to the report was that Southern
whites
>should only be allowed to teach the "evil" parts of their heritage. There
was
>one problem she missed out on, though: the story was a hoax. Videotapes of
the
>class proved that the AP reporter had made up the story about a history
class
>teaching that slaves were happy. While I saw this information on AP wires,
I
>did not see anything carried in the Herald-Leader.
>Instead of seeking the truth, "politically correct" blacks have created
their
>own "truth", in which anything that can be connected with American slavery
in
>the Old South is entirely evil - and anything less than this race-baiting
>propaganda is not acceptable to teach as history. This "truth" ignores the
>historical facts that American slavery would not have existed without
blacks
>selling fellow blacks into slavery, or that the first slaveholder in the
>American colonies was black. What seemed to scare Davis the most, though,
was
>that anyone might actually study the "Slave Narratives", since some of what
is
>in them won't fall in line with the revisionist history we are taught
today.
> Davis says that just because blacks loved the South they didn't love
>slavery. No one claims that they did; the important point is that most
blacks
>did love their home - the South. Davis then correctly says that thousands
of
>blacks fought for the Confederacy, and did so with patriotism. This is an
>important truth, which is actively being erased by politically correct
forces.
>Davis is to be commended for admitting this. She goes on, though, to
speculate
>that blacks fought for the Confederacy because they were somehow duped by
>whites into doing so through a white conspiracy to keep them completely
>ignorant of events around them. I disagree; this is an insult to the
>intelligence of blacks that developed numerous methods of communication and
>ways to keep that information to themselves and who had eyes and ears with
>which they could witness the events unfolding around them. The blacks who
>supported the Confederacy - by keeping the farm going at home, or by
>supporting and fighting with the army on the front - did not do so because
>they were duped. They did so because their homes were being invaded - the
>black wives, sweethearts and sisters were being abused and raped as well as
>the wives, sweethearts and sisters of the white Southerners by the northern
>"bands of angels" in Union blue - and because their patriotism overcame the
>fact that they did not yet share fully in the benefits of society.. Black
>Confederates did reasonably expect, especially if the South had won, some
>reward for their patriotism.
>In spite of losing the war, though, the patriotism of Confederate blacks
was
>still often rewarded, as evidenced by the Tennessee pension records and
other
>sources. It is today that we try to avoid honoring their patriotism. Why
else
>would Dr. Emory Emerson, a descendant of a black Confederate soldier and
>member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have been "disinvited" from the
>services dedicating a monument which only memorialized the service of
blacks
>in the Union army?
> To end her attack, Davis says that Southerners can celebrate the
>Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but must always remember
>that men who forged this heritage were evil racists. Then she says to
>Southerners about their brief years as an independent nation that they are,
>essentially, best forgotten. My hope is we never forget when the Southern
>states stood up to defend states' rights and the constitution against a
>military invasion of the most powerful army on the planet. Just as I hope
my
>26 years of military service defending my country and constitution would
not
>be forgotten, we should never forget the bravery of the Southern soldier,
most
>of whom didn't own slaves anyway, in taking arms and giving their lives to
>defend their civil rights, their constitution, and their country.
> The civil rights movement of the 1960's in the South would not have
>succeeded without brave Southern whites that joined with us. The civil
rights
>movement was not about taking away the justifiable pride Southerners have
in
>their heritage, but in securing constitutional guarantees for all. Blacks
>enjoying constitutional freedoms is not in opposition to, but rather an
>extension of, states securing their constitutional rights as well. Somehow,
>though, today what we see is a "civil rights" movement which wants to rob
the
>South of its heritage, pride and symbols. The best way we can stop this
wrong
>is for Southern blacks to repay the favor from the 1960's, and stand today
>with our Southern white friends, to protect the heritage and symbols of the
>South, before our common history is completely rewritten and erased by
>"political correctness".
>
>*
>Larry Sykes, a Mississippi native and an Army Airborne veteran, lives in
>Lexington
>
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