The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 234: You Have to Wonder About the University of Mississippi History Professors

From the April 4, 2016, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  UM history faculty seek Confederate plaque revision.  (Univ. of Mississippi)  (Loss)  A plaque was installed on March 17 at the Confederate monument on campus and the faculty is upset that it has no mention of slavery on it.  Some 33 history professors at the school want it to read that slavery was the main cause of the Civil War and freedom the most important result.  There is also no mention of the oppression of blacks that followed the war.

Of course, I am shocked that the school would allow a Confederate monument to still be on the campus in its present anti-all things Confederate.

Well, if the University of Mississippi was ever a Southern school, it certainly isn't now.  Perhaps they need to relocate to some New England state or New York.

The school already refuses to fly the state flag because of the Confederate emblem on it, even though they flew it since the 1890s.  Why they still receive state funding is beyond me.  The Mississippi state legislature should cut off funding.

And the fact that these are supposedly history faculty, it is surprising they have such a narrow view of the cause and result of the war.  Sure slavery was in the mix, but there are many other things that also caused it, especially the abolitionists, John Brown and economics.

--Old Secesh