I'm All Ready For Week 2

I should have posted this a few days ago, got a bit delayed...

The Daytona 500 was last Sunday and it had one of the best finishes I've ever seen. You can check it out in the youtube video below. For those who didn't watch, the race went into Nascar's overtime, called a green-white-checker finish, meaning 2 laps and that's it. It looked like Mark Martin, who has never won the 500 despite over 20 years of trying, would finally win, but Kevin Harvick beat him by .02 seconds as a huge crash loomed behind them, including a car crossing the start/finish upside down and on fire. Ricky Bobby couldn't have done it better. Not stopping the race after the crash happened added even more controversy that saw several crew chiefs suspended for cheating. I love this sport. It beats out watching anything but football!

Name Change Would Dilute History

The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA is considering relocating and dropping the word "Confederacy" from its name. It would most likely rename itself to something more generic, like "Civil War Museum."

Historical revisionism such as this has no place in our society. Some claim that the word "Confederacy" now denotes racism. While the CSA may have had slaves, this was not the only issue separating the South from its Northern neighbor, but I will save that argument for a different post.

Taking Confederacy out of a museum that is associated with the Confederate Whitehouse is ludicrous. It would be like calling a Holocaust Memorial a "World War II" museum. It dilutes history.

Also, the Richmond location is appropriate as this was the main capital of the CSA. Relocating to Lexington, VA would most likely harm Richmond's economy and also separate the Museum from the CSA Whitehouse, leading to less visitors learning about that turbulent time in our Nation's history.

Regardless of your view on the South, anyone with a respect for history should write the Museum and discourage these changes.