Pitts: Don't let past lies and present misinformation kill the Civil War history center
We were lied to.And lying breeds distrust.Some African Americans do not trust that the N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction History Center will tell the story truthfully.They believe it will continue the lie of the “lost cause,” the narrative that the brave southern rebels were fighting northern aggression and standing up for states’ rights. The lie that the war had little or nothing to do with slavery itself.The center will not continue this […]
