Subject: Revisionist History
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:43:06 EDT
Dear Sirs:
I would like to compliment you on your remarks about the attempt
to disallow Robert E. Lee's portrait from being displayed. We
are daily losing sight of our nation's history thanks to the
political correctness of the ill advised liberal establishment,
and the outright reverse discrimination of so called Afro-American
leaders. These self styled leaders are often times nothing more
than ill educated rabble rousers with no real concern for the
issues they embrace, but rather for the publicity that they can
garner for themselves. Here in [a northern city] the Public School
system has all but dropped any reference to Robert E. Lee,
Stonewall Jackson and other Confederate heroes.
I have met graduates of [a northern] University, holding Masters
degrees who could not identify either general! We as a nation
have a terrible habit of forgetting our traditions and our past,
and so we are doomed to repeat many of its mistakes. In an
effort to placate loud mouthed rabble rousers, and believe me we
have more than our share of them up north, truth is being buried,
honor is trampled underfoot and history is being rewritten.
I thought that your note about the exhibit pertaining to the
Pharoes was most telling. I happen to be Jewish, and I cannot
recall a single co-religionist who ever voiced a whisper of
objection over the displays in our museums here
in [a northern city] (which has [a] large...Jewish population...)
about Egypt. In fact, should you visit those displays you will
find large numbers of Jewish men and women avidly viewing and
reading about that ancient civilization. Now it is not that we
have forgotten that we were once enslaved by the Egyptians, but
rather because we see the need to study and understand the
culture, aside from the issue of our enslavement there. It
is a painful part of our history, but a part of our national
history nevertheless.
In closing, I hope that others will speak out as you have,
against the demonizing of the Confederacy and its illustrious
leaders and teach about the true issues of the Civil War which
transcended the slavery issue. Perhaps if some of our...citizens
actually studied a bit more and protested a bit less they might
actually learn something!
