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400yrs ago, 150yrs ago, hell today.Woke Yale Professor discovers that White Southerners were Racists 150 years ago.
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400yrs ago, 150yrs ago, hell today.Woke Yale Professor discovers that White Southerners were Racists 150 years ago.
Blacks invented ugly babies and type 2 diabetes.Well, if you don't actually invent something, then the next best thing is to pretend that you did.
That blacks are painting themselves victims over the silliest of things? Not surprising at all. Memorial Day is the canonization of the old tradition of family members gathering every spring to go clean off the graves of freshly sprouted weeds and winter debris.
400yrs ago, 150yrs ago, hell today.
Lol.On May 1, 1865, thousands of newly freed Black people gathered in Charleston, S.C., for what may have been the nation’s first Memorial Day celebration. Attendees held a parade and put flowers on the graves of Union soldiers who had helped liberate them from slavery.
The event took place three weeks after the Civil War surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and two weeks after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It was a remarkable moment in U.S. history — at the nexus of war and peace, destruction and reconstruction, servitude and emancipation.
But the day would not be remembered as the first Memorial Day. In fact, White Southerners made sure that for more than a century, the day wasn’t remembered at all.
It was “a kind of erasure from public memory,” said David Blight, a history professor at Yale University.
The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day
In February 1865, Confederate soldiers withdrew from Charleston after the Union had bombarded it with offshore cannon fire for more than a year and began to cut off supply lines. The city surrendered to the Union army, leaving a massive population of freed formerly enslaved people.
Also left in the wake of the Confederate evacuation were the graves of more than 250 Union soldiers, buried without coffins behind the judge’s stand of the Washington Race Course, a Charleston horse track that had been converted into an outdoor prison for captured Northerners. The conditions were brutal, and most of those who had died succumbed to exposure or disease.
In April, about two dozen of Charleston’s freed men volunteered to disinter the bodies and rebury them in rows of marked graves, surrounded by a wooden, freshly whitewashed fence, according to newspaper accounts from the time.
Is anyone really surprised.
What?Black people also tidied up their cemeteries and sometimes that included a picnic aka dinner on the ground.
Try harder.
First national memorial is ordered by Congress
On January 25, 1776, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775.
First national memorial is ordered by Congress | January 25, 1776 | HISTORY
On January 25, 1776, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775. Montgomery, along with Benedict Arnold, led a two-pronged invasion of...www.history.com
My ancestors fought for the confederacy and we all celebrated memorial day since the 1950s.
Everything is a race issue to the race baiters.Memorial Day should never be a racist issue
What?
I'm a southerner through and through. Born in southern California and live in southern Utah. Ya'll heard correctly.I thought you said you were a southerner.
In April, about two dozen of Charleston’s freed men volunteered to disinter the bodies and rebury them in rows of marked graves, surrounded by a wooden, freshly whitewashed fence, according to newspaper accounts from the time.
The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.On May 1, 1865, thousands of newly freed Black people gathered in Charleston, S.C., for what may have been the nation’s first Memorial Day celebration. Attendees held a parade and put flowers on the graves of Union soldiers who had helped liberate them from slavery.
The event took place three weeks after the Civil War surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and two weeks after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It was a remarkable moment in U.S. history — at the nexus of war and peace, destruction and reconstruction, servitude and emancipation.
But the day would not be remembered as the first Memorial Day. In fact, White Southerners made sure that for more than a century, the day wasn’t remembered at all.
It was “a kind of erasure from public memory,” said David Blight, a history professor at Yale University.
The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day
In February 1865, Confederate soldiers withdrew from Charleston after the Union had bombarded it with offshore cannon fire for more than a year and began to cut off supply lines. The city surrendered to the Union army, leaving a massive population of freed formerly enslaved people.
Also left in the wake of the Confederate evacuation were the graves of more than 250 Union soldiers, buried without coffins behind the judge’s stand of the Washington Race Course, a Charleston horse track that had been converted into an outdoor prison for captured Northerners. The conditions were brutal, and most of those who had died succumbed to exposure or disease.
In April, about two dozen of Charleston’s freed men volunteered to disinter the bodies and rebury them in rows of marked graves, surrounded by a wooden, freshly whitewashed fence, according to newspaper accounts from the time.
Is anyone really surprised.
The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.
The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.
That was the first war memorial burial ground. It has nothing to do with the actual approval of Memorial Day which was done in 1971.
Memorial Day in the United States
Before that it was
You demean black people.400yrs ago, 150yrs ago, hell today.
You demean black people.
I would have thought that the Democrats would have considered George Floyd's “resting place” as the birth of Memorial Day.The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.
I was aiming that at the race baiting idiot I quoted.Are you saying that when I do a 100% truth piece that it's demeaning black people? Or are you talking to the other person.