I don't. My dad always said the thing that was really different
between the North and the South is that in the South a lot of whites
and blacks actually knew each other and had a society that involved
each other. Each knew good people among the other. In the North we
had/have ghettoes. I've got no right to judge anybody on the basis of
where I live.
It was a magnificent, epic struggle. It should never have happened.
The Civil War Memorial in this part of New France (Des Moines,
specifically) is a wonderful bastion of reconciliation, with a neked
goddess of peace with knockers that blew my mind as a fifth grader on
a school field trip. I'll have to see if I have a decent photo of it.
Maybe we can pull this little OT thread back to topic!
Joel W.
On 4/6/07, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please don't mistake me for a Southern redneck racist -- well, maybe a
> redneck sometimes. I was raised by a black nanny, who I called Aunt Violet. I
> loved her to death. We lived between two churches, one Methodist, one
> Baptist, and I learned to read by her taking me to the cemeteries and reading
> the tombstones.
>
> It was an unnecessary war. Slavery was dying out anyway. Probably 90 percent
> of the soldiers in the Confederate armies never owned a slave; they just felt
> they were defending their homes.
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