The discovery of Confederate bones a few years ago has brought up some issues. I think the author of this article from Daily Kos has a valid point. If a monument is going to be built for Confederate soldiers it seems even more appropriate for a monument to also be built for the Buffalo Soldiers, many of whom lie in unmarked and forgotten graves in remote mountain locations.I like accurate historical markers, with the proper weight given to each historical event. The neo-Confederates have a fetish about Southern history that is actually quite ahistorical, and thus inaccurate. Focusing on the Buffalo Soldiers threatens to make a similar mistake, but on the other side (although it’s important to note that, because of numbers, the neo-Confederate danger is real and present, whereas the Buffalo Soldier danger is almost-entirely hypothetical).
Maybe a Buffalo Soldier memorial at Ft. Craig, and a Confederate memorial in Socorro. Or whatever is the best approach to getting closest to the real history.
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