Did Boomer Individualism Help or Hurt America

[beechnut79]

(10-05-2021, 11:37 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-04-2021, 08:59 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: And Robert E. Lee encouraged unity once the issues of the Civil War were decided. And yet statues of him were defaced and destroyed. Not too long ago I was talking with someone who is of the opinion that statues like this along with, say, Columbus, should not be destroyed because they are part and parcel of history, regardless of whether you believed what they stood for. When two popular music groups along with one sports team changed their names due to such political correct pressure, that is going a bit too far, IMO.

You obviously don't live where the "Lost Cause" has been celebrated since the 1880s and later -- more in the 1920s than any other time.  Statues were erected everywhere!  Everything has (well, had -- times are changing) a name commemorating the "Confederate heroes".  A major stretch of US 1 is just now losing its assigned name: Jefferson Davis Highway.  

This is long overdue.  Yes, the North won the war, but the South won the peace.  That's a large part of why we're so divided today.

But, even if the Confederate side had won the war, don't you think that by the next century the descendants of former slaves would have gotten very tired of being treated as livestock at best, vermin at worst? Surprised it took nearly an entire century as it is.