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

[Superbadbrutha]

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

400yrs ago, 150yrs ago, hell today.

 

[the other mike]

Well, if you don't actually invent something, then the next best thing is to pretend that you did.

Blacks invented ugly babies and type 2 diabetes.

 

[surada]

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.

Black people also tidied up their cemeteries and sometimes that included a picnic aka dinner on the ground.

 

[surada]

400yrs ago, 150yrs ago, hell today.

Not all of us, friend.

 

[tahuyaman]

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.

Lol.

 

[ActionJackson]

Black people also tidied up their cemeteries and sometimes that included a picnic aka dinner on the ground.

What?

 

[Vrenn]

Try harder.
First national memorial is ordered by Congress
On January 25, 1776, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775.

First national memorial is ordered by Congress | January 25, 1776 | HISTORY

On January 25, 1776, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775. Montgomery, along with Benedict Arnold, led a two-pronged invasion of...

www.history.com

That was the first war memorial burial ground. It has nothing to do with the actual approval of Memorial Day which was done in 1971.

Memorial Day in the United States​

Before that it was Decoration day. The first day it was observed was on 1868. The first national celebration of Decoration Day took place May 30, 1868, at Arlington National Cemetery, where both Confederate and Union soldiers were buried. Shortly thereafter, some Americans, including high officials in the U.S. Government, began to refer to it as Memorial Day. Its focus, though, still lingered on the Civil War.

This had to do with Arlington Cemetary and nothing to do with just blacks or whites. And it wasn't just the Union Soldiers, it was all soldiers buried in Arlington which also had Confederate Graves.

 

[Vrenn]

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

I posted the real truth. Like some of the others, please don't try and rewrite history any more than you already do.

 

[tahuyaman]

Memorial Day should never be a racist issue

Everything is a race issue to the race baiters.

 

[surada]

What?

I thought you said you were a southerner.

 

[ActionJackson]

I thought you said you were a southerner.

I'm a southerner through and through. Born in southern California and live in southern Utah. Ya'll heard correctly.

 

[Mushroom]

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.

And what did they do in 1866? 1867?

A single event is not the same as creating a holiday. That is why nobody connects the two, it was simply a one-off memorial to honor those in a specific location.

The reality of this is like the reality of Roots and NASSA.

 

[Seymour Flops]

This kind of thread is incredibly condescending to black people. Find any little contribution that any black person made to some event and claim that "black people did it!"

I used to do the same with my kid. I would come in from working on the car and say, "Junior and I fixed the air conditioner. He was a big help" Even as a kid, Junior got it. He would say, "You know dad means I helped by watching."

Grown up black people don't need to be talked down to like that.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

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.

The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.

 

[surada]

The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.

So what?

 

[Vrenn]

The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.

And another dozen states and cities make the same claim. But the only one that stands is the one on 1868 at Arlington which Decoration Day was proclaimed. The Memorial day came well after that and up until 1971, there was no sanctioned Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day which did the same thing. Memorial Day just was more correct than Decorations Day so it was renamed.

 

[tahuyaman]

That was the first war memorial burial ground. It has nothing to do with the actual approval of Memorial Day which was done in 1971.

Memorial Day in the United States​

Before that it was

400yrs ago, 150yrs ago, hell today.

You demean black people.

 

[Vrenn]

You demean black people.

Are you saying that when I do a 100% truth piece that it's demeaning black people? Or are you talking to the other person.

 

[ActionJackson]

The Democrats declared Waterloo NY the birthplace of Memorial Day.

I would have thought that the Democrats would have considered George Floyd's “resting place” as the birth of Memorial Day.

 

[tahuyaman]

Are you saying that when I do a 100% truth piece that it's demeaning black people? Or are you talking to the other person.

I was aiming that at the race baiting idiot I quoted.