An UnCivil War

Because this wasn't news, I put off posting this for a while.  But it was so wonderfully done that I think it's worth putting up here now, even if a few weeks out of date.

Over on Twitter after Charlottevsille, there was a sort of recurring thread that some people picked up on.  It began with a color photo of some white supremacist in a Confederate costume looking forlorn as a young woman expresses her thoughts in...well, let's just say a blunt way.

To this image, people added their own Ken Burns-like Civil War text for letters home, addressed for example to "My Dearest Clara."  I added a few of my own, but this tops them all.

I'm not entirely 100% sure of the derivation.  I believe it begins from Michael Stahlke and someone whose Twitter handle is @arawnsley.  And I think they are the people who started the thread, and posted at least half-a-dozen of them.  But then, someone -- it appears to be a person going by @Reetae27 -- did something brilliant and hilarious.  He (or she) turned the image black-and-white, added a few other touches, and then put together a short video as if it actually was a sequence from Ken Burns' documentary, The Civil War.

Here it is.  They're all done well.

Okay, this is like my favorite thread ever!!, so I wanted to see what it would look like merged with a Ken Burns-ish voice reading. pic.twitter.com/E2frNNahFH

— Reetae (@Reetae27) August 19, 2017