Brian Sapper
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Yes, how dare he not drink the Kool-Aid and believe in the Lost Cause myth hook, line and sinker like everyone else in the South!

What he writes about is more insidious than merely creating flat out fabrications about history. Its the selective use of half-truths to with the intention of obfuscating the full context of what happened. Yes, the South did fight in the name of state’s rights…and that specific right was to keep a slave labor underclass to retain their economic power. Yes, leaders like Lee and Jackson were accomplished commanders and had a reputation for moral clarity…that they pissed away by turning against the United States to support the aforementioned owning of slaves. etc. etc.

Teaching the history of the Confederacy by omitting all these facts is like teaching the history of World War 2 where you only mentioned that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because we cut off their oil, and not that we did it in response to their brutal military campaign in China and Southeast Asia.

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