The opinion written by Caroline Randall Williams titled above and linked below is one of the
most heartfelt, beautiful and necessary opinions about which to
write. Thank you, Ms. Williams, for putting to paper your deep and
emotive thoughts. I have long been a student of American history and a
northerner who loathed everything about the Confederacy and still do.
Aside from the fact that the Confederacy was a true insurrection against
the construct of this nation it was a radical uprising dedicated to
tearing the nation apart and it took over 600,000 lives. Everything
about it is noxious to me so I cannot help but be surprised at how
little I have thought about those persons of color who look almost
white. I am incredulous at my own lack of perception of this fact that I
never sought to analyze the reality of it even though it was right in
front of my face.
Ms.
Williams has a gift for writing and an even bigger gift for forcing the
nation to confront the historical truth that those persons of color
who know their ancestry before a certain time is half white also know
they were conceived not in love but in rape. It is testament to yet
another truth that the story of the Confederacy is a story of sex by
force and impregnation against one's will.
There
is nothing, in my opinion, about the Confederacy worth commemorating.
It should be remembered, however, for the brutality, violence and hate
that it represented and its cancerous legacy it bestows upon us today.
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