[VAcourier] Richmond Sesquicentennial LTE on Feb. 14

[Virginia Division SCV Communication List]

How True-- Why is the Museum of the Confederacy participating in this
Confederate hating exercise in political correctness?
 
 
Brag Bowling



 
Political Correctness Will Kill Tourism
Editor, Times-Dispatch Our competitor, the Gettysburg Chamber of Commerce,
couldn't come up with a better strategy to ensure that Richmond's Civil War
sesquicentennial celebration turns into a flop than the Sunday Commentary
authors of "The Future of Richmond's Past." 

There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of Civil War buffs
who would love to visit Richmond for no other reason than to see our
battlefields and other restored and preserved sites.

What they don't want is a committee to tell them to eat their politically
correct spinach ("hear more about . . . slavery . . . women, immigrants,
Southern Unionists, free blacks, and the common Confederate soldier").

No need for surprise when smaller and smaller groups of community
representatives talking to one another in community conversations produce a
socially ambitious, historically ambiguous, sesquicentennial marketing
message. Oh, and no need for surprise when the tourists stay away.

John B. Keefe.
Richmond.

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