Lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and soldiers and former slaves and lees surrender was a freedom day, the day that the moment the moment that the promise of emancipation was finally fulfilled. Lee vision of an honorable peace emphasized confederate precisiveness and the vindication, africanamerican would associate it with liberation. So ill talk about the three visions of the peace. And lets start first with the lee and the confederates. Lee and the men saw that even as the surrend
Understand, what is the question . So let me answer. Its a very simple answer. First of all of course as you can understand i want us to reach an agreement but i think we have to reach out in a sensible realistic way. One of the problems is that the piece thinking and peace concept will not renew in 20 years. This is what i think we need fresh thinking. You will not trite to a 25yearold chevy. So i think its time to thank fresh and to describe it in just a sentence. When israelis open their hearts and decided to go to peace in 1993 the result was a waive of terror and buses exploding in central jerusalem. When israelis took a giant step forward and the Peace Agreement in 2000 the result was the worst suicide bombing terror offensive ever. When the israelis opened their hearts the third time and we withdrew from the gaza strip and the result was rockets coming in life in southern jerusalem must awful. It is understandable why middleoftheroad realistic wellmeaning israelis are afraid the
These democrats rallied behind the confederate interpretation of appomattox. In their valor, endurance and skill to copperhead neoprobe insisted southerners were equal to the north to the confederacy was subdued by overwhelming numbers. Heres lees interpretation lock stock and barrel. The south to is divided. By southern unionists opposed confederacy during the war rally behind grants interpretation and reveled in the fact that the noble grant and his army had broadly sushil. Surrender was a vindication for white southerners. Americans held markie maher asserted more fervently that the surrender margin of error than africanamericans. Vivendi victory vindicated the cause of black freedom and racial justice. At appomattox, both liberators had liberated. The last clash of granted me across the virginia countryside from petersburg to appomattox, my stomach tried on april 9 to break free of a federal trap only to find last escape route blocked by black soldiers and the six regiments of the
The food, its not the best. But youre there. We conduct nonviolent workshops. We went bang songs. So old pharaoh to let my people go. Coetzee silas, bound in jail. No money to go in that bail. But it was there that we became a circle of trust, a band of brothers and sisters. Guest the cocacola policy considered south africa they were influenced to change the plight of things in south africa with another major corporation. Host washington please go ahead with your question or comment for representative lewis. Guest . Caller thanks for cspan. I watch daily and love it. Thank you, congress then lewis for your endurance and your hard work to build a more Perfect Union. I am a little nervous. The conservative movement i was watching bill moore the other day and they had a guy on there that was a part of the tea party and they said that they were winning. The conservative movement has been winning by using narratives that pull this country further and further to the right. Arent the socalled
Those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. We remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. I spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. There is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. Nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. The first subject was so horrendous that turned is that makes it of the two sides causes could badly to meant barely managed. They add a view of what they think happened. Until 1941 britain defied the vast evil of nazism, berlin. In russia and the United States took this train encompassing the destruction of hitler. The struggle was nothing like as bloody as its predecessor, says some people kid t