Have you always wanted to be known as a Southern Confederate American? Do you mourn the fact that somehow you cannot join the Sons of Confederate Veterans or the Daughters of the Confederacy as a full member? Well, folks, I have the answer right here. The Southern Legal Resource Center wants you to assist in its mission of creating a separate census category of “Southern Confederate American.”
Day: March 6, 2011
A Multicultural Confederacy Embracing Diversity?
In my world, “diversity” and “multiculturalism” are terms invoked at various times in support of various policies and programs usually deemed to cater to what some people call “political correctness.” My own view is that people walk a tightrope between issues of identity, multiculturalism, and diversity all the time, and I’m much more interested in people who live their lives embracing such notions than in talking about them. In short, I’m well aware of the uses and abuses of these terms as deployed in the world around me, and I wonder about the sincerity or commitment of some of the people who seem eager to inject them at every opportunity, even as I see that there’s much to be learned and valued from incorporating the merits of these concepts into one’s own life and approach to living.
I offer this as background to bringing up a topic that is a cause of amusement and bemusement for me: the claim that the Confederacy was a multicultural experience and that it embraced diversity.
The Sunday Question: The South and the Coming of the Civil War
For this Sunday, we’ll inquire about your reading list once more. Which book on the South and the coming of the Civil War would you most recommend to others, and why?
Crossroads 