@gwaldby Banning books, censoring classroom content dealing with racial/racist issues... How dead is the Confederacy really?

When the insurrection of the southern rebels is compared to Americans' Revolutionary War of Independence, you know what the "1776" flags on Jan 6, 2021 likely really meant, not to forget the Confederate battle flags outside of & inside the Capitol on that day.

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First, [Marie Bankhead] Owen encouraged [United Daughters of the Confederacy] chapter presidents to interrogate their school superintendents and history teachers. In addition to portraying Davis and Lee as heroes, the United Daughters of the Confederacy fought to ban the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” from school recitals, to remove “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” from classrooms and to rename the Civil War the “War Between the States.”

“In case any one of them is so illy informed as to be teaching this false history, the truth of the matter should be placed in their hands with the view of having the coming generations realize that what the South fought for was the same kind of independence as our Revolutionary fathers,” Owen wrote to the chapter presidents.

But Owen didn’t limit her advocacy to what should be banned. She solicited Douglas Freeman, the author of a Robert E. Lee biography, to draft a new “Confederate Catechism” for school children to memorize, and she pressured publishers to include the Confederate Catechism in history textbooks.
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Btw, Alabama's coat of arms, still including the Confederate battle flag today, and Alabama's motto “Audemus jura nostra defendere” — "We dare defend our rights" (still today to be found above the front door of the Alabama Statehouse) are products of that very racist b!tch Marie Bankhead Owen.

Had the Confederacy died early enough after 1865, Hitler's Nazis couldn't have learned from anti-constitutional racist Jim Crow laws how to craft their antisemitic, culturally genocidal Nuremberg Race Laws Hitler's regime passed in 1935.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/how-a-confederate-daughter-rewrote-alabama-history-for-white-supremacy.html
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