This documentary discusses in a wide variety of ways the "Lost Cause" Narrative, one in which, as a child born and raised in the Deep South, I was taught as the truth and propagated myself through jokes, slurs, and mistruths about Blacks, the South, slavery, etc. Essentially, the narrative in question teaches through repetition that the Civil War was not about slavery but States' rights (to secede), but would any State have seceded if their institution of slavery had not been threatened? Of course not. Why would you intentionally embargo yourself if you didn't feel that your entire world philosophy had dangerous opponents? After all, it was well known that Abraham Lincoln was a Melungeon--Black, Indian, and Portuguese--and the States seceded because they could see that he would become President and oppose their revered institution. Slavery had to be stopped, and it is unfortunate that violent means had to be employed, but it is maybe more unfortunate that in the case of the Civil War the losers have written--or rewritten--history in order to maintain their sense of superiority over another human ethnicity considered to be somehow inferior to those with light or "white" skin. Gone With The Wind. And good riddance. Help kill the Lost Cause narrative.
