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C LASSIFIED /B IDS O PINION
Nothing about Slavery in the South was Nobile
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ed by the UDC as protectors of the
white race.
Because of its activities since
the Civil War, the UDC current-
ly is considered by
the Southern Poverty
Law Center as part of
the Neo-Confederate
movement. And noted
historians have con-
sidered the UDC to be
an advocacy group for
white supremacy. But
the efforts of these women were
so successful that hero worship of
the Southern traitors spread into
the North.
Not only do eight of the 11 for-
mer Confederate states have coun-
ties named in honor of Robert E.
Lee, but the U. S. Navy named a
submarine after him in 1960.
Not only are there roughly 223
public spaces with Confederate
monuments in Virginia, a bust
of Robert E. Lee and a statue of
Stonewall Jackson also were in
the Hall of Fame for Great Amer-
icans at the Bronx Community
College in New York City until
North Carolina and Alabama
also have begun removing white
supremacists from Statuary Hall.
Confederate statues also have
been removed from public spaces
throughout the South, including
cities in Alabama, Florida, Ken-
tucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Virginia would be wise to follow
suit.
Racism and white supremacy
are not going away anytime soon.
And as long as organizations like
the UDC are around, eliminating
these cancers from the American
body politic will be difficult and
painful.
Nine states of the former Con-
federacy still celebrate holidays
commemorating the attempt to de-
stroy the nation in order to main-
tain slavery and white supremacy.
Many white individuals con-
tinue to disrespect African Amer-
icans and downplay the blistering
harm caused by centuries of slav-
ery and racism. This was made
clear when a racially insensitive
photowas discovered on Virginia
Not only do eight of the 11 former Confederate
states have counties named in honor of Robert E.
Lee, but the U. S. Navy named a submarine after
him in 1960.
ored while heroic patriots were
ignored.
In the decades following the
Civil War, there was an extraor-
dinary effort by large numbers of
white women through the Unit-
ed Daughters of the Confederacy
(UDC) to bolster and maintain
white supremacy in the South and
in the nation. In order to do this,
they needed to create a narrative
that characterized the Confederate
rebellion as a “just cause.”
Key to perpetuating the myth
of the just cause of slaveholding
Southerners was the double-bar-
reled argument combining the
notions of the “Noble South,”
where kindly masters cared for
their adoring slaves, and the “Lost
Cause,” – in which valiant South-
ern men rose to defend their liber-
ties against an aggressive, greedy
Northern industrial complex.
Using this logic, the Southern re-
bellion was characterized as both
“noble” and “just” but resulting in
tragic heroes fallen in battle and
a victimized Southern white pop-
ulace. The shorthand for this nar-
rative was projected as the “Lost
Cause of the Noble South.”
This twisted myth also gave
rise to the Ku Klux Klan, celebrat-
their removal in August 2017.
In the U.S. Capitol building of
the very nation that Robert E. Lee
sought to destroy, his statue stands
in Statuary Hall where each state
is allowed to place statues of two
of its most beloved citizens. In
1909, Virginia chose Lee.
The victory of the UDC in the
propaganda war has been almost
complete for decades. The organi-
zation was able to sway American
sentiment to revere traitors and
enslavers as heroes of American
democracy. However, as Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. said: “The arc
of the moral universe is long, but
it bends toward justice.”
In 2018. the governor of Flor-
ida signed legislation to replace
the statue of Confederate general
Edmund Kirby Smith in Statuary
Hall in the national Capitolwith
one of the famous African Amer-
ican educator and civil rights ad-
vocate, Mary McLeod Bethune.
And this year, Arkansas’ governor
signed legislation to replace its
Statuary Hall statues of Confed-
erate loyalist, Uriah Milton Rose
and white supremacist James Paul
Clarke with those of musician
Johnny Cash and civil rights ac-
tivist Daisy Lee Bates.
Gov. Ralph S. Northam’s medical
school yearbook page. The photo
shows one individual in blackface
standing next to another individ-
ual in a Ku Klux Klan robe and
hood.
Gov. Northam first apologized
for the photo, but the next day
denied knowing anything about
it. He finally promised to make
amends for the episode by pur-
suing racial reconciliation in the
state; but so far, he has done noth-
ing of substance and his actions
attest tothe contamination of mind
and spirit fostered by the UDC
during the past century and a half.
Maintaining statues to traitors
and clowning around in blackface
evidence a lack of good faith on
the part white southerners. None
of this blackface clowning is fun-
ny. Nothing about slavery in the
South was noble. None of it is de-
serving of being honored.
Gov. Northam, like many
white Southerners, promises to do
better, yet Robert E. Lee’s statue
still stands in Statuary Hall in our
national Capitol.
Oscar H. Blayton is a former
Marine Corps combat pilot and
human rights activist who practic-
es law in Virginia.