Shelby Foote on the Confederate flag

[joetechParticipant]

The KKK stole this flag for their cause. They also used the holy cross which they would burn in front of the houses of their victims. Should the holy cross be banned too?

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[ghostParticipant]

Everything is a lot more complex than people think. This video is spot on. This is what I have always believed. Thanks for posting.

[Anonymous 54]

I love that guy.
I hope Northerners hear his words.

[OldBillParticipant]

Foote also said the war was about slavery. Said it right there in the Burn’s documentary.

Are you going to listen to him about the flag only to ignore him on the other question?

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[Anonymous 42]

OldBill wrote:

Are you going to listen to him about the flag only to ignore him on the other question?

Toppling monuments and statues are the sure sign of a falling nation.

[Pedal, run, rowParticipant]

OldBill wrote:

Foote also said the war was about slavery. Said it right there in the Burn’s documentary.

Are you going to listen to him about the flag only to ignore him on the other question?

You should read his writing on the subject, and not just cherry pick one soundbyte from a doco that conforms to your bias.

He understood the complexities quite well, beyond the issue of slavery. Funny that he was often criticized as being too supportive of the confederate cause in his works.

INTERVIEWER
Had you been alive during the Civil War, would you have fought for the Confederates?

FOOTE:
No doubt about it. What’s more, I would fight for the Confederacy today if the circumstances were similar. There’s a great deal of misunderstanding about the Confederacy, the Confederate flag, slavery, the whole thing. The political correctness of today is no way to look at the middle of the nineteenth century. The Confederates fought for some substantially good things. States rights is not just a theoretical excuse for oppressing people. You have to understand that the raggedy Confederate soldier who owned no slaves and probably couldn’t even read the Constitution, let alone understand it, when he was captured by Union soldiers and asked, What are you fighting for? replied, I’m fighting because you’re down here. So I certainly would have fought to keep people from invading my native state. There’s another good reason for fighting for the Confederacy. Life would have been intolerable if you hadn’t. The women of the South just would not allow somebody to stay home and sulk while the war was going on. It didn’t take conscription to grab him. The women made him go.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/the-convenient-suspension-of-disbelief/240318/

Of course now, his opinion will go from being the definitive one on the subject, to meaning nothing, since your mind is set like a steel trap on this matter.

[RemovedParticipant 4676]

A nation that erases its history is no longer the same nation. It is redefining itself into a new nation, and it is a civil war against its previous identity.

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