Basic tactic: If you disagree with me, you're violent! The Neo-Civil War is a political war in psycho-sexual drag. Since 2009 the civil rights battle has certainly changed. Examples of contemptible self-serving disregard: 1619 Project (this outfit banks on a big lie, told often: America was founded on slavery) Black Lives Matter (a grift operation its leaders buy mansions off their take) and despicable media jaws like Joy Behar who presume to tell Justice Clarence Thomas (who grew up in the Jim Crow South) he doesn't know what it's like to be a black man in America. Unfortunately, there's money and media fame in hating America. No matter what those young men of 1863 believed, their sacrifice should silence the race-hustling anti-American bigots of 2023. I remember thinking that if Mom fought a just war, then the Union soldiers who fought and died certainly did. Hundredth anniversary of the Civil War approaching no kid could miss it. Martin Luther King's nonviolent crusade was politically and spiritually healing and just totally American. She went public with her views on author James Baldwin's instructive rage and why Dr. My mother, a movement civil rights activist advocating individual rights and a society disregarding creed and color, outright riled segments of 1958 Midland, Texas, society. (We were in an old Plymouth station wagon.) Circa 1957 my father said that in just about those very words. The 1950s and 1960s desegregation movement was a Civil War battle, hopefully the last battle. Yet the social-political Civil War lingered. It took the Deep South 90 years (and the unifying effects of two world wars with international enemies) to overcome its economic backwardness, in comparison to the Yankee Northeast and Midwest. This assertion is debatable, but I think it has merit. The Confederate and border states (Kentucky, Missouri, even Maryland) suffered terrible devastation from both armies. Sherman's vow to "make Georgia howl" expressed the strategy succinctly.īlue and Gray armies burned farms and factories. They knew the South's ability to supply its armies prolonged the war. The Union's best generals, Grant and Sherman, targeted Confederate economic productivity. Physical, economic and social destruction are more relative terms and comparing them in different historical eras is tricky. Measured by soldiers and civilians killed in combat and by war's derivative killers - starvation, disease and exposure - the Civil War has no rival. But no external or internal challenge quite compares to the Civil War - at least not yet.
Memorial Day emerged from America's most deadly and destructive war: the Civil War.Īgreed, social, political and moral divisions are wracking and weakening contemporary America.
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