Blackface

Erasing Past Sins Distorts History’s Lessons

History teaches us that racial harmony extends beyond racial tolerance. It’s not that I’m a big fan of “Gone with the Wind,” which was, in my opinion, a chick flick before that expression became part of the national vocabulary. The movie came out in 1939, many years before some started inappropriately referring to women as chicks and movies as flicks. A quick Googling revealed the term “chick flick” first appeared in print in 1988. It didn’t take [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:59+00:00June 17, 2020|American History, Antebellum South, Black Americans, Civil War, Current Events, Discrimination, Jim Crow, Racism, Slavery, Vocabulary|