A perfect example of Lost Cause mythology

[struggle4progress]

Rev. Dr. Brandon Frick
Guest columnist

As the descendant of both a colonel and a sergeant in the Confederate Army, I say .. it is past time to remove .. all Confederate statues monuments ...

... They are propaganda used to push a false narrative of the antebellum South.

The UCV raised money for the monument .. through The Confederate Veteran, a magazine filled with ... Lost Cause mythology, nostalgia for a virtuous South, replete with godly white citizens and well-cared for, grateful enslaved peoples who just happened to be Black ... a white-washed lie barely fettered to the realities of the horrors of chattel slavery ...

My ancestors were part of those campaigns. I do not demonize them for fighting to preserve this morally abhorrent system. Neither do I idolize them for sacrificing much to wage that war. I simply view them as humans, both good and bad who did things both brutal and beautiful in their lifetimes ...

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/10/16/guest-column-monument-perfect-example-lost-cause-mythology/6041847001/

[marble falls]

1. Well, it was a lost cause, after all. And it deserves remembering. But absolutely no memorial ...

... or false romantic reminiscence. They were/are a lost cause.

[hunter]

2. I have an ancestor who lived in the Confederate South.

Just before everything in the South turned to complete shit for him as a bachelor tenant farmer with a slightly higher social status than slaves, fearing he would be conscripted, he started walking in a Northwesterly direction and didn't stop until he'd crossed the mountains and seen the Pacific Ocean.

All of my ancestors landed in America in a similar manner. They'd fled their European homelands as everything around them was turning to shit. They didn't come here for any glorious opportunity, very simply, they didn't want to die in the shit.

What the fuck is wrong with people who celebrate the shit? The Confederacy was shit. It may not have been obvious to all the Southern white people of the time, but it's long been obvious now.

[rickyhall]

3. Half my ancestors oppressed the other half. I gets really confusing.

There's royalty and sharecroppers, soldiers and farmers, herders and convicts. They're just people. If everybody realized that we're all just people, that we're all basically the same life could so much smoother.