After a young loser named Dylann Roof walked into a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and allegedly murdered nine innocent people for no other reason than that they were black and he saw himself in the sick tradition of Confederate-flag-waving white supremacists, comfortable perceptions of the Civil War and its legacy began to change, and very quickly.
Monday, September 07, 2015
Re-thinking Things
25 years later, PBS is re-running Ken Burn's Civil War doc this week. Interesting article re: how we may view it differently after recent events.
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