Brad Pitt Quotes
It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.
Raab, Scott. "Brad Pitt: The Esquire Interview." Esquire, Hearst Communications, 1 Oct. 2006.
Opposition to the Bolsheviks
Blight was referring to one classic example where the myth developed in the South and spread to the rest of the country, that the Civil war motivation was not to maintain slavery but a noble fight for freedom and states rights. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of the seceding states had a legislative declaration of secession and all of them stated maintaining slavery was the cause of the war and secession. None mentioned a general principle of states’ rights. As a matter of fact the State’s rights issue went the other way. It was the Northern states that refused to obey the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court to return fugitive slaves. The Northern states claimed State’s rights and the South responded that states had no right to nullify a Federal Law that had been upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court. The historical myths that nations create, puts a more acceptable veneer on disreputable behavior of the past. The United States does this but other nations do as well, and some of the myths cause conflict and violence hundreds of years later as with the Balkans where each ethnic subgroup has its own myths all of which are wrong but believed.
In his effort to rid the University of the vestiges of racism from the school’s disgraceful segregation riots of the 1960s, he found that the emotional reaction and the anger that developed over symbols was much greater than that which was the result of substantive changes. The Confederate Flag made Blacks and some whites very angry that it was flown and exhibited in many places at the university. It was an insult to Blacks as it extolled not only slavery but an entire rebellion to keep them in subhuman conditions. Some whites saw it as symbols of treason and disloyalty to the United States which should not be celebrated at a state university. At the same time, whites saw the Chancellor’s efforts to diminish the exhibiting of the Confederate flag as an insult to their ancestors, and the values of many Americans and an infringement on their freedom of expression.
William Bradley Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award for his acting, in addition to another Academy Award, another Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award as producer under his production company, Plan B Entertainment.
