With my heart surgery (followed by lung surgery) less than 48 hours away, I’ve thoroughly tired of penning posts concerning cancer, Covid and trump.
Thank goodness, my son, David and his brother (via Big Brothers Big Sisters) Bryce have opened my eyes to so much that continues to persist in plain sight as if The Civil War had just been fought, offering me reason to wonder if the bitterness between north and south will ever end.
Having mentioned our nation’s need to resuscitate the concept of Brother/Sisterhood in earlier posts, here is an article recently found on Salon.com, which had such a profound effect upon me as to sharpen my awareness of need to acknowledge movements that silently breathe life into Civil War strife to this very day:
7 things the United Daughters of the Confederacy might not want you to know about them
All too few know that this belief system remains alive and active throughout ‘the south’ ...
“That the UDC website as recently as August 2018 included this line: “Slaves, for the most part, were faithful and devoted. Most slaves were usually ready and willing to serve their masters.”
“That 700 monuments exalting people who fought for black chattel slavery still stand as well as statuary and monuments in the form of “loyal slave” markers— which perpetuate the image of content enslaved blacks and benevolent white enslavers.”
I’d no idea of the power that the UDC continues to wield in D.C. ...
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Official badge, depicting the "Stars and Bars", the first flag of the Confederacy
| |
 | |
| Abbreviation | UDC |
|---|---|
| Established | September 10, 1894 |
| Founders | |
| Founded at | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Type | 501(c)(3), charitable organization |
| 54-0631483 | |
| Headquarters | Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 37.5571518°N 77.4738453°W |
Membership (2015)
| 19,000 |
| Nelma Crutcher | |
| Publication | UDC Magazine |
| Subsidiaries | Children of the Confederacy |
| Website | hqudc |
Formerly called
| National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy |
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American hereditary association of Southern women established in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee. It has been labeled neo-Confederate by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups and extremists.[1] The stated purposes of the organization include the commemoration of Confederate States Army soldiers and the funding of the erection of memorials to these men. Many historians have described the organization's portrayal of the Confederate States of America (CSA), along with its promotion of the Lost Cause movement, as advocacy for white supremacy,[2][3][4][5][6][7] and have asserted that promotion of the Confederate tradition has been led by the UDC.[8] Until recent decades, the UDC was also involved in building monuments to commemorate the Ku Klux Klan.[7][9]
The group's headquarters are in the Memorial to the Women of the Confederacybuilding in Richmond, Virginia, the former CSA capital. In May 2020, this building was set on fire during the George Floyd protests.[10]
I’d no clue that—
“... the UDC tried to erect a monument in Washington, D.C., "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South.” The Senate signed off on it, but the idea never came to fruition.”
“... the UDC tried to erect a monument in Washington, D.C., "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South.” The Senate signed off on it, but the idea never came to fruition.”
“... the UDC’s effort at placing a monument in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, which plays fast and loose with the biography of Haywood “Heyward” Shepherd (the UDC didn’t even bother to get his first name right), a free black man whom an inscription depicts as a “faithful negro” who chose slavery over freedom, as all “the best” blacks did.”
I’d no clue that—
“... the UDC was given a place in Arlington National Cemetery for a Confederate monument that includes a weeping black “mammy” figure holding a white child and an enslaved black man marching alongside his enslaver into battle. The 1914 marker intentionally included the enslaved figure to propagate the idea that black people were willing, eager soldiers for the Confederacy — a suggestion that would mean the war couldn’t have been about slavery, which wasn’t so bad anyway. As historian Kevin Levin has documented at length, that lie has become a neo-Confederate talking pointin a long list of other neo-Confederate lies.”
I’d no clue that the UDC has 19,000 active members, today ...
I’d no clue that the UDC has 19,000 active members, today ...
My hope is to see our nation continue to reach toward a point in time when change for the better becomes so widespread that, though never forgotten, North and South are able to put the past to rest.
Though today’s peaceful protests may not seem to cultivate huge leaps of faith during my lifetime, hopefully, great strides toward positive change will be seen over the lifetimes of my sons and grandchildren, and of this I am certain: My sons’ friendships with classmates resembled The United Nations just as did my own during my formative years as I grew toward being a preteen on Chicago’s south side, in Hyde Park, where my attitudes concerning befriending others, wholeheartedly, had been experientially absorbed into every fiber of my being, naturally, every day of my young life.❤️
Thankfully, I believe our nation is beginning to demonstrate proactive change for the better taking place before our eyes as the makeup of peaceful protesters has transitioned toward the integral inclusion of people of every color, who, for the most part, are responsibly wearing masks while marching for freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which in countless ways, have been denied too many. And now, during trump’s reign of terror, none, who refuse to bow to his moronic soullessness, feel safe ...
Tomorrow, you’ll find the text that I received, several weeks back, from my son, David, during a time of social turbulence when chemo was distressing my body and blood supply with miseries that blurred my mental capacities from publishing that which I plan to post, next, concerning a text that David received from Bryce’s mother, Zetty, during recent protests (and riots) concerning my son’s heartfelt influence, over these past ten years, upon her beloved son, Bryce, who is now, half way through his 21st year ... and once you absorb Zetty’s heartfelt out pouring, you’ll clearly see why I teared up ... Annie
PS
How many times do you think ‘heartfelt’ appeared in today’s post?
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