Travelling through the south one cannot miss how revered the Confederacy is. This really pisses me off. They fought a war, not to preserve slavery, but to EXPAND slavery. As far as I'm concerned any American should be able to piss, shit and burn any relic of General Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and any other leader of the Confederacy.
In Mississippi's state capital, the Confederacy is proudly on display. The Confederate flag is etched in the flag of Mississippi. A statue dedicated to the mothers of the confederacy sits outside the capitol building. There's a statue of Stonewall Jackson outside of City Hall. I'm sure if I walked around more, I would have found plenty more glorification of the Confederacy.
Having said this, I still found Jackson (named after Andrew Jackson) to be a great stop. It's a small city of just under 200,000. It's downtown has the feel of a large town. It's largest building is the Lamar Life from the 1920s with a huge gothic clock tower at its top. Unfortunatey, the capitol building was under restoration, but the Old Capitol remained. It was here that Mississippi became the second state to secede from the U.S.
Mississippi. What goes on there? Doesn't Old Miss have the highest poverty rate of any state?
ReplyDeleteAll that confederacy crap is one example of how the United States is anything but a collection of united states.
I think Miss. has the highest percentage of blacks. I wonder how the blacks feel about all that confederacy crap. Did you ask when you were down there?
Mississippi is the poorest state in the U.S. and it's content to stay that way.
ReplyDeleteThere has been an increase of Confederate monuments in the past 10 to 20 years. This should be no surprise, since the average american seems to relish be a stupid, ignorant hick.
If I had time I would have liked to ask, not just blacks, but whites, about all of these Confederate displays.