The really South is a bunch of sore losers. The have spent the last 150 years rewriting their own history in order to justify both their eternal support of a losing idea and the foundations of that idea. This country needs to get over this love-affair with a bunch of racist-cry-baby-bullies who withdrew from the Union because they didn't get their own way.
To that end, I have a few suggestions:
1) Strip the Confederate flag off of EVERY SINGLE fraking state flag that still includes it
2) Ban showings of such films as: "A Birth of a Nation" and "Gone With the Wind", south of the Mason-Dixon Line. They merely help perpetuate this stereotype of "happy slaves" and "the Lost Cause". After the obsession with the Confederacy has passed away, future southern generations will one day be able to enjoy these films again.
3) Outlaw the "Daughters of the Confederacy". It is groups like these that helped push the "Lost Cause" myth into the public conscienceness after the war and have spent the last 150 years keeping it firmly there. If
banning the group is too extreme, then state that for every dollar they spend "glorify" Confederate war
heroes, preserving plantations, and promoting the "Lost Cause", they have to spend an equivalent dollar on
something that helps the descendants of the slaves those plantations and great warriors fought to keep in chains. This could be anything, donated to the NAACP, black scholarships, preservation of the documents and homes of notable black artists, or even on educating the public about the first black legislatures during Reconstruction.
Here's hoping that one day we can rid our fair country of the stigma of participating in the fraud that is "The Lost Cause" and STOP glorifying the the racists who almost destroyed our nation all in the name of slavery.
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