With no sense of shame.

I have a feeling that our American Civil War never really ended. We are still at it. A divided nation. The Confederacy has never admitted that it lost. The battles still go on. For states rights. For subjugation of black people. And one still hears cries of secession. Think about it. The history books tell us that the war ended in 1865. But that’s bullshit. The slaves weren’t freed. A new kind of slavery emerged. Yes, the era of Jim Crow. New rules for blacks. They had to live segregated. As second-class citizens. Denied basic civil and human rights. Even to this day. We have Jim Crow. Albeit in modified form. It’s still a racist society. And the old Confederacy is still revered. Romanticized. In places like Virginia. Where the governor has declared April as Confederacy History month. A time to wave the Rebel flag. The governor’s initial proclamation made no mention of a war fought to bring the end to slavery. Instead, it was a heroic battle for states rights. No mention that in the year the war broke out, Virginia alone had 500,000 black people enslaved. My gawd, what’s gonna come next in this crazy world? Maybe the Germans can declare Nazi History month. With no mention of the Holocaust. Let’s all celebrate the past. With no sense of shame. –Jim Broede