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Confederate Flag Day event misguided
YDR editorial board
5:11 p.m. EST February 18, 2016
... many half-baked historians will launch into a tedious argument about states’ rights as “the real cause” of the Civil War ...
But the primary states’ “right” at issue was .. the enslavement of a race of people ...
Let’s conclude with the wise words of Gettysburg College history Professor Scott Hancock: “There are parts of that Southern culture that are appealing. I think the problem for me is that it’s reclaiming that with a symbol of falsified collective history that allows us to ignore a lot of injustice” ...
http://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/editorials/2016/02/18/confederate-flag-day-event-misguided/80566428/
