tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2471025702580140012..comments2024-03-29T03:57:26.974-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: The Ignorance of HistoryGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-80150850697882400252013-09-11T18:49:58.707-04:002013-09-11T18:49:58.707-04:00I had a similar experience with a teacher of a sim...I had a similar experience with a teacher of a similar age recently. I contacted her to ask about a story that I remember her teaching us, only to discover that she didn't remember it at all. How surprising, since I remember the lesson so clearly! Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-5551072385998893132013-09-11T18:37:56.017-04:002013-09-11T18:37:56.017-04:00I was inspired to look up my old teacher, and I wa...I was inspired to look up my old teacher, and I was pleased to find she's still living. We just had a nice talk and caught up with each other. She says I'm totally confused in my memory about her story, though. She must have told a similar story about someone else's family. It was such a distinct memory, though! She was a real firebrand; still is, at 79.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-32932189783929848502013-09-11T13:02:43.816-04:002013-09-11T13:02:43.816-04:00You are far too kind. There's ignorance, and ...You are far too kind. There's ignorance, and then there is willful ignorance, and revisionist history, the last two of which qualify as outright lies.<br /><br />If a purported historian publishes a falsehood, it is still a lie.<br /><br />ValerieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-16547810835628910362013-09-11T11:02:53.734-04:002013-09-11T11:02:53.734-04:00I was just thinking of posting on that same video....I was just thinking of posting on that same video. It made me think of a story one of my high school teachers told us. She was a black woman, the only black teacher at our school. Her family was from Louisiana, always considered something of a wild frontier by us Texians. Now and then she'd stop teaching us Spanish and spin stories about her youth. She said that one of her brothers was arrested once, and her father and other brothers went and busted him out of the local jail, out of a deep conviction that he'd be treated to a kangaroo court and imprisoned or killed. I'd never heard of such a thing outside of adventure novels about foreign cultures. She was a fine teacher; she'd studied in Madrid and demanded a great deal from us. She told us the occasional story and let us draw our own conclusions. I believe she sensed that her group of coddled suburban kids could use a little more information about what life was like in some quarters, but she never told us what to think. Her name was Anna Barrett.<br /><br />Anyway, to return to the video: there have been plenty of times when I'd have liked to see American blacks better armed than they were. It might have made some jerks in white sheets think twice.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-49377557884047921522013-09-11T07:03:23.951-04:002013-09-11T07:03:23.951-04:00That's a contentious reading of history also, ...That's a contentious reading of history also, although I suppose one might point to the success of the Redemption movement in the post-war South as evidence for it. Still, the success of Federal prosecutions against the Klan of the post-War period is well documented.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-74663880885734973402013-09-10T23:44:08.337-04:002013-09-10T23:44:08.337-04:00Some friends these Democrats have. Not even Sherma...Some friends these Democrats have. Not even Sherman + Grant could eliminate the plantation class backed KKK. Won a lot of battles, lost the war over the slaves.Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-19142030308906666972013-09-10T20:59:43.737-04:002013-09-10T20:59:43.737-04:00It may have been, but having visited the NRA's...It may have been, but having visited the NRA's museum at its headquarters in Virginia, I believe I am rightly representing their founder's view. As I recall the exhibits, there was a significant disparity that was of concern to their founders.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-67991188685332205852013-09-10T20:57:15.553-04:002013-09-10T20:57:15.553-04:00I'm going to suggest that hitting anything wit...I'm going to suggest that hitting anything with a rifle musket was just as problematic in the rebel armies. <br /><br />Especially for those what showed up with smoothbores, like the Orphan brigade. <br /><br />Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.com