‘New York Times’ Memorial Day article attacks the South

May 30, 2011

By Michael

Southern Nationalist Network

 

Establishment paper publishes anti-Southern writer

David W. Blight‘s article for the Establishment’s favourite newspaper, The New York Times, is full of one attack after another on the South. Blight was born, raised and educated in the Deep North, and he is the director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. He has authored several books on race and Lincoln’s war against the South and has won the Lincoln Prize and the Frederick Douglas Prize. In short, there couldn’t possibly be a more anti-Southern partisan than the likes of David Blight.
Imagine if an openly pro-Southern writer penned an article about the war in the Times. Well, that would be unthinkable. But if the unthinkable happened surely we would hear comments like “Why are they still fighting the war?” Yet, when a Yankee partisan writes a piece that does nothing but attack the South repeatedly all is okay. Why are Yankees so obsessed with defending their invasion of another people, another culture and another government? Precisely because it was an invasion. It takes constant revisionism, excuses and attacks on the enemy (and make no mistake, the traditional South is just as much “the enemy” today – and is treated as such – as it was in 1861) to maintain support for Northern imperialism. If the attacks on the South were ever to stop, the truth would eventually win out and a majority would come to understand the Northern invasion and conquest of Dixie for what it was – with all the implications for the present that this would entail. Once upon a time, the anti-Southern attacks focused around allegations of treason. Today, they generally are focused around “racial justice” and the myths and Leftist politics surrounding that subject. This is Blight’s modis operandi. He makes a living attacking the White Southerner in particular and probably is a true believer in the Yankee righteousness of his crusade.
Blight champions the North in every paragraph throughout his article and misses no opportunities to insult the South and make it appear that racial divisions only existed below the Mason-Dixon line. Indeed, he returns to race again and again. Blight clearly reveals his Northern partisanship and opposition to Southern heritage in the following passage:

In the South, Memorial Day was a means of confronting the Confederacy’s defeat but without repudiating its cause. Some Southern orators stressed Christian notions of noble sacrifice. Others, however, used the ritual for Confederate vindication and renewed assertions of white supremacy. Blacks had a place in this Confederate narrative, but only as time-warped loyal slaves who were supposed to remain frozen in the past.
The Lost Cause tradition thrived in Confederate Memorial Day rhetoric; the Southern dead were honored as the true “patriots,” defenders of their homeland, sovereign rights, a natural racial order and a “cause” that had been overwhelmed by “numbers and resources” but never defeated on battlefields.
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