The Wikipedia entry for Memorial Day claims that  the holiday “was first enacted by formerly enslaved Africans to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War . . . ” Since black people were generally treated as second class citizens in the North as well as in the South for at least a hundred years after the Civil War, this sounded fishy to me. Sure enough, the “official source” of information on Memorial Day, the U.S. government’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs, makes no mention of “formerly enslaved Africans,” but it does say that the first “Decoration Day,” as it used … Continue reading Political Correctness on Wikipedia