re: #161 HappyWarrior

I’m 23, from Virginia. I’m not proud of our state’s history with slavery and the Confederacy but I’m proud to be from the state of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and countless others.

My friend from Kentucky (another transplanted Northerner) visited the Georgia State Capitol when he was in Altanta. After he and his family toured the museum and grounds he commented to me, “I hardly saw anything from the Civil War Period in there!?”

He was correct. Most of the exhibits of an historical nature concentrate on colonial and revolutionary heroes from Georgia and figures in the Civil Rights movement. There are a few civil war uniforms visible in portraiture but only because they are on statemen and governors from the period.

Martin Luthor King Jr. is featured prominently on the wall outside of the Governor’s Office.

The grown ups are not celebrating that sad era of our history.