The Texas facility tried to present both "sides"...and failed.
"An introductory video, “Our Honor, Our Rights,” taught schoolchildren a monochromatic view of Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ foolish Lost Cause and ignored the reason behind the war over “states’ rights.” (The “states’ right” Texas and the South defended was the right to own slaves.) At one point, the museum’s gift shop devolved into a toxic Confederate battle flag trinket stand."
Read the full story HERE in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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