{"id":2274,"date":"2009-11-07T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2009-11-07T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T13:00:29","slug":"perspective-by-incongruity-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2009\/11\/07\/perspective-by-incongruity-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective by Incongruity, #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another distraction. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a Yankee living south of the Mason-Dixon  line. A granddaughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/my-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\">working class Polish immigrants<\/a>. A Detroiter. Life\u2019s different down here. I&#8217;ve adjusted to the fact that the peanuts are boiled, not roasted. And I actually like my BBQ as pulled pork and tangy instead of whole cuts of beef and sweet.<\/p>\n<p>But when we visit Stone Mountain\u2014that Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy\u2014I honestly don\u2019t know how to explain to my sons what happened there as we walk past the secessionist memorials alongside our African-American neighbors. We take our boys to living museums\u2014something my family did every weekend at Henry Ford\u2019s Greenfield  Village. But these war re-enactments are almost always from the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>And when my sons ask during the battle, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/10\/i-want-a-blue-coat-hat-you-get-a-grey-coat-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Who are the good guys, Mommy?<\/a>\u201d I can only sigh. I saw all those confederate bumper stickers when we walked in. I hear the lilt in the accent around me. So, like the good Burkean, I whisper very quietly, \u201cIt\u2019s complicated, honey. They are <em>all<\/em> Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another distraction. . . . I\u2019m a Yankee living south of the Mason-Dixon line. 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