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The White Noonan’s Burden
Posted by Clif on 03/31/06 at 7:37 pm
Category: Wingnuts
According to the latest hooey-drenched column of St. Peggy of the Dolphins, the U.S. of A. is the very bestest of countries that ever was or ever will be, and the only bad thing about the U.S. of A. is that we don’t tell brown immigrants often enough that we are the very bestest country ever. St. Peggy trots out the following factoid as some of her evidence about how we are the bestest:
We fought a war to free slaves. We sent millions of white men to battle and destroyed a portion of our nation to free millions of black men. What kind of nation does this?
Only a very great one. Maybe the greatest of all.
Once again Peggy’s grasp on her martini glass is much firmer than her grasp of American history. To hear Peggy tell it, the Civil War was just another example of the White Man’s Burden, with gigabazillions of altruistic white men marching off to save black men who could not save themselves.
Except, of course, not just white men fought for the Union. At least 180,000 African-American’s fought for the Union Army. And the number of total union troops wasn’t in the millions, but was more likely around 700,000, including both whites and blacks.
I live about a block away from a memorial to the African-American soldiers who fought in the Civil War. Next time Peggy comes to Washington she should stagger out from her hotel bar long enough to come up to my neighborhood and see it.
