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Emmeric -> RE: Justice for Nathan Bedford Forrest black cavalrymen. (10/14/2013 9:32:08 PM)
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Sometimes history doesn't fit the pop-image-history we have created and with which we comfort ourselves.
For example, everyone today believes the N-word only has ever referred to black slaves. But back then, it also referred to white slaves. Oh, you didn't know there were white slaves, you say? Today we have built a religion around the "offensive racist" usage of the n-word as pertaining only to blacks. Easily searchable, use "white (n-word)s, American slavery" to find the truth.
Sigh. But in the game? If the game were to be very historically accurate, many would find it distasteful. For example, Lincoln as a White Supremacist? The war not fought over slavery? I thought it very daring that the Civil War II game used an excerpt from Lincoln's first inaugural and for that I give hearty applause. But to go further? Dare we confront the very ugly issue of exactly why the so-called civil war (it was not a civil war) started? Let's not and just play the game.
But still, best not to confuse the misinformed with too much history or they will begin to question their existence.
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