Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday.
"What greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?" ~ Barack H Obama
America should reject the romantic re-imagining of the Civil War and the myriad totems to the Confederacy and its leaders that pockmark the South.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Union's victory in the Civil War and still most Americans have a rosy vision in their head of that war and the reasons for which it was fought and it is way fucking past time that ends. Until America actually faces its true identity, it can't grow up and be a real boy.
April 9th should be made a federal holiday; and America should commit to disavowing or renaming monuments to the Confederacy, and its leaders, that receive direct federal support.
I love this idea, not least of all because the Southern States would be apoplectic.
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