Our Stubbornness Will Cost the State Many Good Jobs (MS)
Wyatt Emmerich
POSTED ON APRIL 18, 2016
... I have a dozen Confederate soldiers as ancestors, all from Mississippi. My children are sixth-generation Mississippians 29 times over. I dont lose any sleep because my ancestors fought to defend slavery. The war is ancient history.
One great thing about Americans we move on. We dont live in the past. Why would we want to imitate the centuries-long grudges of our Scottish ancestors? They still hate the English. It is one thing to appreciate history and tradition. It is another thing to get mired in it.
The war was a terrible national tragedy fought to defend one of the most noxious institutions in the history of man slavery. Nobody can deny this. Why are we clinging to a symbol of this tragic disaster? Even worse, the Confederate battle flag has been co-opted as a universal symbol of hate. Its now toxic. Yet we cling to it.
Gen. Robert E. Lee warned, I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered...
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