MOC Name Change in the Works?
It sounds more of a PC change if you ask me. I have visited the museum, loved it and it does not celebrate slavery or opression as this councilwomen says. It does represent the history of the Confederte Soldier and a wealth of knowledge.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RT...
Marc Averill
29th Georgia
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Ten years ago.
It's been about ten years since I was there. It was a nice place. I don't recall slavery being much of a focus either. I would agree that it appears to be a PC move for support and of course money.
I'll never understand why we can't accept the fact that slavery existed in this country and we fought a war that ended slavery in this country. It seems to me that they can find a balance that doesn't glorify slavery but still remembers what the Confederacy was.
I don't see it in the article but what is happening to the President Davis' home after the move? It would be a shame to see it gobbled up and lost, though it is very much encroached upon already.
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Michael Johnson
White House of the Confederacy
Well said Mike!
Everything I have seen leaves the White House otC where it is. The museum is in the way of hospital expansion and parking is an issue. I would like it to all stay where it is, but economics of keeping them running may dictate other wise. Both attractions go hand in hand.
Marc Averill
29thGA
Coming soon.....Boston
Coming soon.....Boston massacre site to be renamed the Boston slightly violent snowball fight site. once again social extremism makes the simple complicated. on both sides of the Coin, the confederate Flag stands for racism because a few ignorant yahoos wearing stormtrooper uniforms(brown shirts) carry em in parades, but they also carry the american flag as well, then you have the other side of the coin where anything dixiecentric(new word stephen colbert) is evil and every southerner owned his very own slave and treated em worse than his dog... the reality is its history, godd bad and ugly and to paste it over like it never happened is an egrigious action. The simon weisenthal center has the Holocost Museum not the Unfortunate Mass jewish captivity Museum nor does the Museum of the Confederacy have a room devoted to why they(the confederacy) were right. but generaly speaking It seems all museums that have displays about history are having financial difficulty, some from mismanagement, some lack of advertising, and others just because we are living in the Mcfood fast paced celluar phone got to have it NOW! playstation world and histroy doesnt seem important unless it gets you a grant or reparations....or a casino.
"To not know history is like a leaf who doesnt know its part of a tree"-Michael Crighton
Seamus
Cogito sumere potum alterum
Things change
Things change. Momuments eventually crumble...and so it seems with MOC. If they move from the current location, then they might as well change the name. From it's long perserverance in Richmond, it just will not be the same to move it. So, changing the name is just another page in history.
Mike J. people make the same mistake over and over. The war was not fought to end slavery, it is well documented that this became an issue later in the war to rally people to a support an unpopular war and more importantly gain support from Europe. By ultimately surrendering to the notion that the war was about slavery is what causes the current injuries with the wanting to eradicate the use of anything sounding Confederate.
Will