Telling "The Whole Story"

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Tell The Whole Story?

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

By Bill Vallante

As the Sesquicentennial approaches and as some of its events begin to kick off, in Virginia and elsewhere, I’m hearing the phrase “Tell the Whole Story” more and more. “We need to tell the whole story” rings loud, clear and repeatedly in recent articles in the Richmond Times Dispatch and in Virginia’s Style Weekly Magazine. And in the context of those articles, there is no mistaking the fact that the phrase refers to, as one article put it, “the suffering and pain of human bondage.”

“Tell the whole story” – it’s a phrase that I continually heard coming out of the mouth of Museum of the Confederacy Director Waite Rawls back when I was a member of that organization. I resigned that membership 2 years ago in disgust over a number of issues, among them, the MOC cozying up to Doug Wilder’s Slavery Museum, and its public announcement that it was giving serious thought to dropping the word “Confederacy” from its title. I always wondered what Mr. Rawls meant by “tell the whole story.” Now that Sesquicentennial events are starting, I think I know, because I hear that phrase repeatedly, not only out of his mouth, but out of the mouths of people like Richmond Delegate Dolores McQuinn, a black woman whose favorite word seems to be “reconciliation,” Sesquicentennial planners, wack-ademics, newspaper editorialists and others.

Call me jaded and suspicious, but when I hear “tell the whole story,” coupled with words like “reconciliation,” I keep wondering if it means that someone needs to apologize. I hope they are not expecting that someone to be me because I assure you that the Pope will convert to Islam before that happens. In my life I have dealt happily and successfully with more different people from more different backgrounds than Al Sharpton has grievances. I have no guilt about anything, and am sorry for nothing, at least not insofar as my dealings with others are concerned. Need “Reconciliation?” Go somewhere else. I don’t do reconciliation.

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[All Hawks Kill]

Well I grew up in Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley and the Old Dominion ain't what it once was.  Too many hemorrhoids (Yankees Moving South), and they want the "Whole Story" told in the Yankee way.  My family is still there and they are not happy about what is happening, and neither is all the people who's family blood was spilled all up and down the Valley as well as the rest of the state.  They are pushing this chit to the point that folks are going to start pushing back.  They say histroy will repeat itself if you don't learn from the past, and them Yankees ain't learnt chit!  Keep your powder dry boys!

[Ga.windbreak]

I don't know about you guys but I find it that all progressives are very arrogant in their feelings of moral superiority over our ancesters and when it comes to questioning the "official" history of the WONA that is even more true of some of our brothers outside the deep south.