Posted on by Erik Chipchase

bantarleton:

beggars-opera:

Hi there! 

Are you the social media manager of a historic site noteworthy for the Confederate mass slaughter of surrendering African-American soldiers, described as “one of the bleakest, saddest events in American military history”?

Do you want to share something that will properly acknowledge this event to the public with gravity? Perhaps encourage readers to learn more about an oft-forgotten historical atrocity, particularly during this time of reckoning on the history of racism in this country? 

If so, please see this primer on how NOT to commemorate your massacre!

I can’t tell if this is a really badly worded attempt at commemorating the murdered Union soldiers or a straight up neo-Confederate moment. Certainly comes off – shockingly – as the latter.

Word salad seems to be the hallmark of Neo-Confederates.

Posted on by Erik Chipchase

pattern-53-enfield:

“You say you are fighting for liberty. Yes you are fighting for liberty: liberty to keep four millions of your fellow-beings in ignorance and degradation;–liberty to separate parents and children, husband and wife, brother and sister;–liberty to steal the products of their labor, exacted with many a cruel lash and bitter tear;–liberty to seduce their wives and daughters, and to sell your own children into bondage;–liberty to kill these children with impunity, when the murder cannot be proven by one of pure white blood. This is the kind of liberty–the liberty to do wrong–which Satan, Chief of the fallen Angels, was contending for when he was cast into Hell.” – Gen. David Hunter, letter to Jefferson Davis, 1863

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery– the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.