Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts (Russell Duncan)

Of Robert Gould Shaw, a man who was once the embodiment of heroism, and of what heroism means, and should mean, today.

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https://theworthyhouse.com/2021/06/29/where-death-and-glory-meet-colonel-robert-gould-shaw-and-the-54th-massachusetts-infantry-russell-duncan/

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"I suspect that very few people under forty know who Robert Gould Shaw was. Those older may remember the 1989 film 'Glory,' which told his story. That movie could never be made today (and will probably soon be disappeared, as has been 1964’s 'Zulu'). After all, Shaw’s is an out-and-out “white savior” story, and now that everyone has been educated that the African reality is actually Wakanda, we realize that black people don’t need, and have never needed, a man such as Shaw. Yet even though the Left has racialized all of American life and shrieks ever louder for a race war (something I failed to predict, silly me), I will only touch lightly on race in this review, and will focus on heroism, the traditional center of Shaw’s story. To race, we will return another day." . . .