Black people may have started Memorial Day. Whites erased it from history.

[miketx]

Growing up in a Southern Culture we did not celebrate Memorial Day because it was a filthy ass Yankee Holiday created to honor the goddamn Union thugs.

However, after Vietnam the attitude seemed to changed. Now even us Crackers accept that it is honor all veterans.

"May have been", total crap.

 

[surada]

On May 1, 1865, thousands of newly freed Black people gathered in Charleston, S.C., for what may have been the nation’s first Memorial Day celebration. Attendees held a parade and put flowers on the graves of Union soldiers who had helped liberate them from slavery.

The event took place three weeks after the Civil War surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and two weeks after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It was a remarkable moment in U.S. history — at the nexus of war and peace, destruction and reconstruction, servitude and emancipation.

But the day would not be remembered as the first Memorial Day. In fact, White Southerners made sure that for more than a century, the day wasn’t remembered at all.

It was “a kind of erasure from public memory,” said David Blight, a history professor at Yale University.

The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day
In February 1865, Confederate soldiers withdrew from Charleston after the Union had bombarded it with offshore cannon fire for more than a year and began to cut off supply lines. The city surrendered to the Union army, leaving a massive population of freed formerly enslaved people.

Also left in the wake of the Confederate evacuation were the graves of more than 250 Union soldiers, buried without coffins behind the judge’s stand of the Washington Race Course, a Charleston horse track that had been converted into an outdoor prison for captured Northerners. The conditions were brutal, and most of those who had died succumbed to exposure or disease.

In April, about two dozen of Charleston’s freed men volunteered to disinter the bodies and rebury them in rows of marked graves, surrounded by a wooden, freshly whitewashed fence, according to newspaper accounts from the time.

MSN

Is anyone really surprised.

Wow! This is a story I never heard before. Do you know where in Charleston they were reburied?

 

[surada]

Growing up in a Southern Culture we did not celebrate Memorial Day because it was a filthy ass Yankee Holiday created to honor the goddamn Union thugs.

However, after Vietnam the attitude seemed to changed. Now even us Crackers accept that it is honor all veterans.

My ancestors fought for the confederacy and we all celebrated memorial day since the 1950s.

 

[AMart]

Hilarious that anyone thinks this was the first time any dead soldiers were memorialized in the USA. Nothing could be further from the truth.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

On May 1, 1865, thousands of newly freed Black people gathered in Charleston, S.C., for what may have been the nation’s first Memorial Day celebration. Attendees held a parade and put flowers on the graves of Union soldiers who had helped liberate them from slavery.

The event took place three weeks after the Civil War surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and two weeks after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It was a remarkable moment in U.S. history — at the nexus of war and peace, destruction and reconstruction, servitude and emancipation.

But the day would not be remembered as the first Memorial Day. In fact, White Southerners made sure that for more than a century, the day wasn’t remembered at all.

It was “a kind of erasure from public memory,” said David Blight, a history professor at Yale University.

The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day
In February 1865, Confederate soldiers withdrew from Charleston after the Union had bombarded it with offshore cannon fire for more than a year and began to cut off supply lines. The city surrendered to the Union army, leaving a massive population of freed formerly enslaved people.

Also left in the wake of the Confederate evacuation were the graves of more than 250 Union soldiers, buried without coffins behind the judge’s stand of the Washington Race Course, a Charleston horse track that had been converted into an outdoor prison for captured Northerners. The conditions were brutal, and most of those who had died succumbed to exposure or disease.

In April, about two dozen of Charleston’s freed men volunteered to disinter the bodies and rebury them in rows of marked graves, surrounded by a wooden, freshly whitewashed fence, according to newspaper accounts from the time.

MSN

Is anyone really surprised.

Happy Kwanza!

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Happy Kwanza!

Happy Valentines Day

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Happy Valentines Day

You spelled Valentimes wrong.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

You mean growing up as a racist POS, you didn't celebrate anything that wasn't WHITE.

As a racist POS, you didn't celebrate anything that wasn't black?

 

[Dekster]

On May 1, 1865, thousands of newly freed Black people gathered in Charleston, S.C., for what may have been the nation’s first Memorial Day celebration. Attendees held a parade and put flowers on the graves of Union soldiers who had helped liberate them from slavery.

The event took place three weeks after the Civil War surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and two weeks after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It was a remarkable moment in U.S. history — at the nexus of war and peace, destruction and reconstruction, servitude and emancipation.

But the day would not be remembered as the first Memorial Day. In fact, White Southerners made sure that for more than a century, the day wasn’t remembered at all.

It was “a kind of erasure from public memory,” said David Blight, a history professor at Yale University.

The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day
In February 1865, Confederate soldiers withdrew from Charleston after the Union had bombarded it with offshore cannon fire for more than a year and began to cut off supply lines. The city surrendered to the Union army, leaving a massive population of freed formerly enslaved people.

Also left in the wake of the Confederate evacuation were the graves of more than 250 Union soldiers, buried without coffins behind the judge’s stand of the Washington Race Course, a Charleston horse track that had been converted into an outdoor prison for captured Northerners. The conditions were brutal, and most of those who had died succumbed to exposure or disease.

In April, about two dozen of Charleston’s freed men volunteered to disinter the bodies and rebury them in rows of marked graves, surrounded by a wooden, freshly whitewashed fence, according to newspaper accounts from the time.

MSN

Is anyone really surprised.

That blacks are painting themselves victims over the silliest of things? Not surprising at all. Memorial Day is the canonization of the old tradition of family members gathering every spring to go clean off the graves of freshly sprouted weeds and winter debris.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

As a racist POS, you didn't celebrate anything that wasn't black?

That's the problem, we celebrate everything but black.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

That blacks are painting themselves victims over the silliest of things? Not surprising at all. Memorial Day is the canonization of the old tradition of family members gathering every spring to go clean off the graves of freshly sprouted weeds and winter debris.

Actually we just want your racist ass to tell the truth.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

That's the problem, we celebrate everything but black.

Well except that comical Black history month crap

I don't celebrate it but many fo

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Well except that comical Black history month crap

I don't celebrate it but many fo

Why is it comical? Is it because you have been taught to believe only white folks have history in this country. Most racist don't celebrate it.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

You know, there is a difference between a memorial and Memorial day....right?

And there he is, quick to rush in to throw water on whatever counters a leftwing OP. Yeah, you're moderate, and never vote for Dimocrats, sure.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

And there he is, quick to rush in to throw water on whatever counters a leftwing OP. Yeah, you're moderate, and never vote for Dimocrats, sure.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Memorial Day has evolved to what it is today. It's a day to honor ALL of our fallen heroes from ALL of our wars and conflicts.
The OP as well as the author of this article want to make it about race. It's not, and we should move on from there.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I absolutely do not mind a partisan, just be honest about it.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

That's the problem, we celebrate everything but black.

You haven't seen any television commercials lately, have you, racist?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I absolutely do not mind a partisan, just be honest about it.

It seems to be a leftist thing.

 

[MarathonMike]

It was “a kind of erasure from public memory,” said David Blight, a history professor at Yale University.

Woke Yale Professor discovers that White Southerners were Racists 150 years ago.