HERITAGE VS History:
Where does the white supremacist doctrine fit today in southern life?
Heritage:
noun
1. something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion:
Legacy:
noun, plural legacies.
1. Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
2. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor:
History:
Noun, plural histories.
2. a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account; chronicle:
noun
1. something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion:
Legacy:
noun, plural legacies.
1. Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
2. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor:
History:
Noun, plural histories.
2. a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account; chronicle:
A Few Types of heritage:
Ancestral -geographical origin,
Heredity- genetic- physical traits, medical ,(mental and physical health , illness life expectancy).
These are all beyond our control!
Inheritance and Cultural Heritage can be rejected. YOU are in complete control!
Inheritance/Heritage- property passed down.
A relative leaves his/her property to you upon death or offers you a gift while living. If a pet is left to you and you are severely allergic to or repulsed by the pet you can choose to NOT accept it, to REJECT the inheritance.
In other words you were given something you did not or could not accept. This pet was your inheritance but you rejected it for whatever reasons. This is called "disclaiming a gift or inheritance" and is allowed by law.
Cultural Heritage.
Defined as: the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).
Part of the definition is highlighted above in red. THESE are the parts we control.
IF a parent or grandparent teaches you things you believe/know to be unwholesome when you are a child you have a choice as an adult to not shun or attempt to reject acting on that teaching in your life, present and future. You also have a choice to not teach the same to your offspring, OR to wait until they are adults and then tell them of the teaching and why you found it necessary to eliminate it from your life and theirs.
As demonstrated in previous pages on this site using confederate documents, the doctrine of white supremacy was taught by many in authority. AND the Battle flag (s) were created to represent the struggle against any effort to interfere with slavery or it's spread to new territory. Slavery was justified by the doctrine of white supremacy. These things make the Battle flag (s) inextricably linked to the doctrine and a symbol of the doctrine, and its abuses.
Ancestral -geographical origin,
Heredity- genetic- physical traits, medical ,(mental and physical health , illness life expectancy).
These are all beyond our control!
Inheritance and Cultural Heritage can be rejected. YOU are in complete control!
Inheritance/Heritage- property passed down.
A relative leaves his/her property to you upon death or offers you a gift while living. If a pet is left to you and you are severely allergic to or repulsed by the pet you can choose to NOT accept it, to REJECT the inheritance.
In other words you were given something you did not or could not accept. This pet was your inheritance but you rejected it for whatever reasons. This is called "disclaiming a gift or inheritance" and is allowed by law.
Cultural Heritage.
Defined as: the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).
Part of the definition is highlighted above in red. THESE are the parts we control.
IF a parent or grandparent teaches you things you believe/know to be unwholesome when you are a child you have a choice as an adult to not shun or attempt to reject acting on that teaching in your life, present and future. You also have a choice to not teach the same to your offspring, OR to wait until they are adults and then tell them of the teaching and why you found it necessary to eliminate it from your life and theirs.
As demonstrated in previous pages on this site using confederate documents, the doctrine of white supremacy was taught by many in authority. AND the Battle flag (s) were created to represent the struggle against any effort to interfere with slavery or it's spread to new territory. Slavery was justified by the doctrine of white supremacy. These things make the Battle flag (s) inextricably linked to the doctrine and a symbol of the doctrine, and its abuses.
The confederacy was an oligarchy. The wealthy controlled the government. Many poor non-slaving holding men fought on the side of the confederacy during the civil war and used the phrase 'Rich man's war and a poor man's fight' in reference to this war.
According to David Nasaw, a history professor at the City University of New York,
According to David Nasaw, a history professor at the City University of New York,
" after having received his draft notice to report for military service during the Civil War Andrew Carnegie, the billionaire rail and steel magnate, paid an Irish immigrant $850 to fight in his place.(1) Needless to say, Carnegie was by no means unique in his unwillingness to serve, as "draft dodging" was a common practice among the wealthy.
"A large number of the men of his generation, who would later be referred to as 'robber barons,' including Phillip Armour, Jay Cooke, J.P. Morgan, George Pullman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis P. Huntington, and John D. Rockefeller spent the war as he did, making money by providing the Union Armies with fuel, uniforms, shoes, rifles, ammunitions, provisions, transportation and financing."(2)
Nor was it illegal: The Conscription (Enrollment) Act, passed by Congress in 1863 to address a manpower shortage in the Union Army, allowed an exemption from military service to those who either paid a "commutation fee" of $300 or, like Carnegie, hired a substitute. Since only the privileged, wealthier citizens could afford such a remittance, military service, fighting and dying, became the exclusive burden of the poor and the working classes. As a consequence, those who were "condemned to serve," and perhaps to die, viewed their conscription as forced servitude in a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight," the rallying cry that mobilized thousands to take to the streets in protest. During one such uprising, the 1863 New York Draft Riots, some 2,000 protesters were killed and 8,000 injured, according to one estimate."
I believe the protester's resentment and dissatisfaction with the Civil War draft and its exemption policy was not only understandable, but justifiable. According to contractarians like John Locke(3) , whose thinking profoundly influenced the Republicanism of our founding fathers, military service, especially in times of national emergency, becomes an obligation and civic responsibility of ALL able-bodied citizens in the state. Ideally, these citizen soldiers act from obligation, civic virtue, patriotism and love of country. Any exemption from military service, other than for physical or psychological disability, ignores the universality requirement of this civic (and moral?) obligation and violates the American ideals of fairness and shared sacrifice.
Draft notices where given, and the expectation was men would show up to fight. Poor men DID fight out of duty and and compulsion , not conviction that this war represented their interests. (There were charges of class discrimination against both Union and Confederate draft laws, ).
Desertion was high on both sides of the war but considerably higher on the side of the confederacy. Desertion was later an offense for which execution was a possible punishment.
There were a significant number of deserters who formed bands of rebels who raided the confederate camps, disrupting troops and supply lines. The Confederacy became an army divided against itself.
According to some historians this contributed greatly to the defeat of the south, as their attentions were divided between the various battle against the Union and the battle against the bands of raiding deserters.
So for the descendents of those who were compelled to fight and then remained due to fear of execution. WAS this war and all the physical artifacts it left behind, a matter of History or Heritage?
For the descendents of those who supported the doctrine that led to the war... WAS this war and all the physical artifacts it left behind, a matter of History or Heritage? :
I believe the answer for all camps can be answered with a simple question... Will you live the doctrine and /or pass it on to your future generations?
IT (The Confederate battle and all it's artifacts) is your Heritage if you have you determined that these values are to be preserved and passed on to future generations?
IT (The Confederate battle and all it's artifacts) is your History if you have determined that these teachings are something you want to neither practice yourself nor pass to your future generations.
There are those who attempt to straddle this fence opting to attempt to keep symbols of the confederacy as a proud heritage AND attempting to renounce the doctrines , sentiments and teachings of those that created those symbols.
For Christians this is equivalent to holding the cross close to your heart with great emotion while you deny the sacrifice of Christ.
For baseball fans this is like buying a ticket to the championship game and with great joy and enthusiasm showing it to all your friends while announcing you hate the game?
It's like buying all the equipment for the SOLE purpose of climbing Everest while announcing you refuse to travel there.
Given or inheriting a Cat does not allow you to accept the cat and not the allergies (if you have them) that are inseaprable from the cat.
Could it be something about owning this "artifact" fulfills some deficient or empty part of their personality? Maybe it's just stubborn will or refusal to accept the history ?
Could it be making a choice of this nature would distance them loved ones' who would disagree? Fear of rejection, lack of courage, fear of making an individual choice?
What ever the reason, there exists a serious disconnect between the object of their desire/affection/ emotional necessity and the commitment and or consequences required of those who pursue possession of the object.
IF you are aware of possible options and can help me understand this please enlighten me.
When I find any confirmed answers from fence sitters I will post them here.
Desertion was high on both sides of the war but considerably higher on the side of the confederacy. Desertion was later an offense for which execution was a possible punishment.
There were a significant number of deserters who formed bands of rebels who raided the confederate camps, disrupting troops and supply lines. The Confederacy became an army divided against itself.
According to some historians this contributed greatly to the defeat of the south, as their attentions were divided between the various battle against the Union and the battle against the bands of raiding deserters.
So for the descendents of those who were compelled to fight and then remained due to fear of execution. WAS this war and all the physical artifacts it left behind, a matter of History or Heritage?
For the descendents of those who supported the doctrine that led to the war... WAS this war and all the physical artifacts it left behind, a matter of History or Heritage? :
I believe the answer for all camps can be answered with a simple question... Will you live the doctrine and /or pass it on to your future generations?
IT (The Confederate battle and all it's artifacts) is your Heritage if you have you determined that these values are to be preserved and passed on to future generations?
IT (The Confederate battle and all it's artifacts) is your History if you have determined that these teachings are something you want to neither practice yourself nor pass to your future generations.
There are those who attempt to straddle this fence opting to attempt to keep symbols of the confederacy as a proud heritage AND attempting to renounce the doctrines , sentiments and teachings of those that created those symbols.
For Christians this is equivalent to holding the cross close to your heart with great emotion while you deny the sacrifice of Christ.
For baseball fans this is like buying a ticket to the championship game and with great joy and enthusiasm showing it to all your friends while announcing you hate the game?
It's like buying all the equipment for the SOLE purpose of climbing Everest while announcing you refuse to travel there.
Given or inheriting a Cat does not allow you to accept the cat and not the allergies (if you have them) that are inseaprable from the cat.
Could it be something about owning this "artifact" fulfills some deficient or empty part of their personality? Maybe it's just stubborn will or refusal to accept the history ?
Could it be making a choice of this nature would distance them loved ones' who would disagree? Fear of rejection, lack of courage, fear of making an individual choice?
What ever the reason, there exists a serious disconnect between the object of their desire/affection/ emotional necessity and the commitment and or consequences required of those who pursue possession of the object.
IF you are aware of possible options and can help me understand this please enlighten me.
When I find any confirmed answers from fence sitters I will post them here.
If not the battle flag, what can the southern states point to as heritage and source of pride?
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Alabama: http://www.50states.com/facts/alabama.htm#.VbzVGvlVhBc
Mississippi: http://www.movoto.com/ms/things-people-from-mississippi-have-to-explain/
South Carolina: http://www.movoto.com/sc/south-carolina-facts/
Florida: http://www.movoto.com/fl/florida-facts/
Georgia: http://www.movoto.com/ga/georgia-facts/
Louisiana: http://www.movoto.com/blog/real-estate-and-more/facts-louisiana/
Texas: http://www.movoto.com/tx/texas-facts/
Virginia: http://www.movoto.com/va/virginia-facts/
Arkansas: http://www.movoto.com/ar/arkansas-facts/
North Carolina: http://www.movoto.com/fayetteville-nc/fayetteville-facts/
Tennessee: http://www.movoto.com/tn/moving-to-tennessee/
Mississippi: http://www.movoto.com/ms/things-people-from-mississippi-have-to-explain/
South Carolina: http://www.movoto.com/sc/south-carolina-facts/
Florida: http://www.movoto.com/fl/florida-facts/
Georgia: http://www.movoto.com/ga/georgia-facts/
Louisiana: http://www.movoto.com/blog/real-estate-and-more/facts-louisiana/
Texas: http://www.movoto.com/tx/texas-facts/
Virginia: http://www.movoto.com/va/virginia-facts/
Arkansas: http://www.movoto.com/ar/arkansas-facts/
North Carolina: http://www.movoto.com/fayetteville-nc/fayetteville-facts/
Tennessee: http://www.movoto.com/tn/moving-to-tennessee/