The Old South is Here to Stay: The Ghost of Dred Scott

Motherland Media Network

In this country, we don’t talk about slavery. We don’t talk about lynching. Worse, we’ve created the counternarrative that says we have nothing about which we should be ashamed. Our past is romantic and glorious. In my state of Alabama, Jefferson Davis’s birthday is a state holiday. Confederate Memorial Day is a state holiday. We don’t even have Martin Luther King Day in Alabama. We have Martin Luther King/Robert E. Lee Day. ? Matthew Teutsch, Instructor of English at Auburn University Considering last week’s demonstration in Virginia and the political “tap dancing” of the POTUS, the Black Reality Think Tank will discuss why we feel removing confederate statutes and flags won’t deter racism in America. Our discussion is centered around the scholarship and research of Dr. EE Thorpe, historian. Dr. Thorpe wrote a book entitle "The Old South a Psycho-History." Dr. Thorpe was a professor of history at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC and the former President of the research organization founded by the late Carter G. Woodson, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. The old south (Dixie) won’t change. Their legacy is rooted deep in American history. Our belief at the Black Reality Think Tank is that the only thing that can change racism toward African descendants in America is the fortification of African life by African people themselves.