NY Times Editor wants American soil forts names changed.... (2 Viewers)

[tdubel]

I'll write slowly next time.

Scott,
Thanks for your typical infusion into the discussion, the threads would not be the same without it............................WOW.

TD

 

[tdubel]

No harm, no foul......thanks for clarifying and frankly I think we agree on more than you think.

I know we do, I think most people in this country sit on the middle road, unfortunately, we truly are a "silent" majority.

TD

 

[tdubel]

Tom,

I need to have a dig at you before I spend some money with you! :wink2:

I think people may have misinterpreted what Scott may have said although he hasn't helped himself by saying what he exactly meant. I think he was talking about the day when we could relegate a civil war discussion to the history books without passions being inflamed (such as a Cavalier Roundhead discussion).

What Malinowski wrote was so dumb that's it's gotten more attention here than it deserved.

Brad

Agreed! I was just jabbing you, I know where we always stand, intelligence rules the day thank goodness!

TD

 

[jazzeum]

At the sake of prolonging this thread, it's only been 50 years since we've started to confront the consequences of bringing Slaves into this country several hundred years ago. 50 years is not a very long time so relegating the Civil War to a purely dis-passionate conversation will probably not happen in our lifetime.

 

[Scott]

Scott,
Thanks for your typical infusion into the discussion, the threads would not be the same without it............................WOW.

TD

I'm glad I can help.

I sure like painting CW figures, reading the books, doing the research, I even spend 20 years of more reenacting CW and I was around for the Centennial in the 1960s. It's a great subject.

 

[desk11desk12]

I guess one of their liberal editors had nothing better to do today and wants all American forts with Confederate names changed (Ft. Hood, Ft. Gordon, etc.) He/she says that since African-Americans make up 57% of the Armed Forces, it's an affront to their history....

Will this insanity ever end?

Carlos

 

[Combat]

It's interesting that so much emphasis is on slavery in this discussion when another argument could be made that those who joined the confederacy engaged in an act of treason. And questions could be raised regarding whether US miltary facilities should be named after such individuals. I don't have a strong opinion though. It's the kind of discussion that inflames a lot of pointless emotion about an issue that makes no real substantive difference. I can see how people with different perspectives can reach opposite conclusions about this type of thing and succeed mostly in just annoying one another for no real purpose.