Yankee Apologist Nightmare: Black Confederate Soldiers (#CivilWar, #History #Heritage)

Walter Williams

A large number of black Southerners served the South in the Confederate Army.  Their history is often suppressed because it contradicts the feel-good fantasies of Yankee-philes.  Walter Williams writes about them at ARRA News Service:

He says:

Last July, Anthony Hervey, an outspoken black advocate for the Confederate flag, was killed in a car crash. Arlene Barnum, a surviving passenger in the vehicle, told authorities and the media that they had been forced off the road by a carload of “angry young black men” after Hervey, while wearing his Confederate kepi, stopped at a convenience store en route to his home in Oxford, Mississippi. His death was in no small part caused by the gross level of ignorance, organized deceit and anger about the War of 1861. Much of the ignorance stems from the fact that most Americans believe the war was initiated to free slaves, when in truth, freeing slaves was little more than an afterthought. I want to lay out a few quotations and ask what you make of them.

Read it all here.