tmh10
Major
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2012
- Location
- Pipestem,WV
We could use more Shelby Footes in this world.
In the world and on our Forum ! The jihad that goes on, on behalf of our ancestors gets tiresome !
We could use more Shelby Footes in this world.
I agree 100%.We could use more Shelby Footes in this world.
It appears to me that the Great Compromise had an affected party missing. The compromise was made between white Northerners and Southerners. That is one reason that monuments and flags discussions get so heated. http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:162321
Insightful point. There is a constituency left out of The Great Compromise.
Thanks for sharing.
It would make Civil War discussion a lot more civil, that's for sure.
It appears to me that the Great Compromise had an affected party missing. The compromise was made between white Northerners and Southerners. That is one reason that monuments and flags discussions get so heated. http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:162321
I'm replying to myself - having thought for some hours about Foote's point that some of what causes the discord is that the descendants of slaves do not wish to talk about slavery or as he says they 'hide from their history'. He contrasts that stance to the Jewish community which does speak openly about the Holocaust.
The more I think about it the more questions I have. The Jewish community portrays the Holocaust as an ugly matter to say the least. They would object to any reverent portrayal of those perpetuated the Holocaust.
I'm not getting Foote's analogy. Having taught American history at several levels, I'm aware that African Americans do not want to hear about slavery while certainly painfully acknowledging that it existed. Is their discomfort with the confederate flag a part of hiding from history? Is the Jewish community's discomfort with the Third Reich hiding from history?
Or is it a serious recognition of history - so serious that those symbols of the past still inspire some fear and dread?