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Arlington Confederate Memorial and Obama's Dilemma The Arlington Confederate Memorial was erected in 1910 and beginning in 1919 with Woodrow Wilson, Beginning with Woodrow Wilson. almost every President of the United States sent a wreath to the Confederate Memorial Day exercises. ] In 1990, President George H. W. Bush declined to send a wreath to the ceremony, citing infighting among Confederate groups. Bush declined to send a wreath again in 1991 and 1992. But President Bill Clinton resumed the tradition in 1993, and it was continued by his successor, President George W. Bush. When African American Senator Barack Obama became President in November 2008, he faced a dilemma about continuing the tradition. As Kirk Savage, art historian, put it, ;a black president suddenly became in charge of a tradition steeped in white supremacy. In 2009, several dozen university professors and historians asked President Obama to end the tradition, and the issue received some mass media attention. Confederate heritage groups denounced any attempt to end the presidential wreath tradition, arguing it would be an insult to Southerners. A few days before the 2009 Confederate Memorial Day, Savage argued in a Washington Post editorial that the Southerners were essentially correct. He concluded that to end the tradition would only reinforce racist attitudes in America and do little to promote an understanding of the role of slavery in American history and society. President Obama himself never addressed the issue. Instead, Obama sent a wreath not only to the Confederate Memorial but also instituted a new tradition of sending a presidential wreath to the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. per gOOgle Research    Abracadabra  |
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8/24/2017 5:43 am |
President Obama really handled the wreath situation in a sensitive manner. If the statues are offensive to African Americans, they should all be removed and kept safely in a memorial park to the Civil War somewhere. I know the cost to move all the statues and keep them safe is a lot of money, but those monuments are really beautiful works of art.
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Confederate soldiers have the status of being US veterans. Not everyone who lived in the South were slave owners, in fact it was a small percent, and not ever soldier was fighting to retain slaves, but rather to retain states rights. Somehow, history has been "rewritten" and the states rights and taxation has been left out of the equation and all some people of today see is the issue of slavery. I think it should be left to the individual towns and cities as to what to do with those statues, not some loud mouthed agitators who don't even live in the area. But I agree with Bijou, those are works of art and should be preserved somewhere..... they are also history that needs to be remembered. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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President Obama really handled the wreath situation in a sensitive manner. If the statues are offensive to African Americans, they should all be removed and kept safely in a memorial park to the Civil War somewhere. I know the cost to move all the statues and keep them safe is a lot of money, but those monuments are really beautiful works of art. Abracadabra
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All good answers and mrsjoe hit it on the head the big problem was taxes and State rights.
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Your comment really struck my funny bone. Here's an interesting read for you and MsJoe. Who's rewriting history and confusing the facts? A meme on FB has it that two acts of Congress (Public Law 810 of 1929 and Public Law 85-425 of 1958 ) bestows upon Confederate soldiers the benefits and status of a United States military veteran. "Public Law 810 refers to Part II, Chapter 23 of U.S. Code 38 which says that the government should, when requested, pay to put up monuments or headstones for unmarked graves for three groups of people: (1) Any individual buried in a national cemetery or in a post cemetery. (2) Any individual eligible for burial in a national cemetery (but not buried there), except for those persons or classes of persons enumerated in section 2402(a)(4), (5), and (6) of this title. (3) Soldiers of the Union and Confederate Armies of the Civil War. No portion of the law appears to confer any privilege other than markers for graves of Confederate soldiers, nor does it grant Confederate soldiers status equal to those of veterans of the United States military. As of 1901, 482 individuals (not all soldiers) were already interred in the Confederate section of Arlington National Cemetery."
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It is in quotes, and I did say it was an interesting read. Try commenting on the subject of how the Liberals are always rewriting history and confusing the facts.
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