[Captain Kirk]

Ooops, the correct title is Wrong Song of the South

[camle]

silly people, doncha know that diversity and multiculturism only go one way?

[crz]

I have no problem if they want to fly the Battle flag as part of their state flags to honor their fallen boys from that God awful war. What I find disgusting is their idea of carrying the civil war on and on and on and on..stuck forever in the past while the rest of those in the south who have forgotten that useless and wastful war, move foreward.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Historian Jeffrey Rogers Hummel persuasively contends that had Lincoln let South Carolina and its allies leave prior to the firing on Fort Sumter, the Upper South would have stayed in the Union.

Perhaps; but what a precedent that would have been! An open invitation for every disaffected state at any point in the future to simply take its marbles and go home.

[MBB1984]

These groups identified are not multicultural at all, they only want to preserve Southern culture. What is wrong with that? I think every group should celebrate their culture and heritage whether it be Irish, Italian, African, Scandinavian, Asian, Jewish, etc. Celebrating your heritage and culture does not make you any less an "American" if not carried to an extreme.

[NCjim]

Others have promoted antebellum style dances.

Scandalous. Utterly scandalous.

[CurlyBill]

Ping

[marron]

Slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, the suppression of voting rights, all of this is the proper heritage of the Democratic Party in the US. It is a mistake for a Republican to get involved in trying to smooth over the crimes of the Democratic Party.

We were the good guys in this, and we should give ourselves credit for it. If Black Americans for a time have sided with the party of their oppressors out of some kind of weird Stockholme Syndrom, it doesn't change history. The history is the the Democratic Party supported slavery, resisted every attempt to limit it or do away with it, resisted any kind of political liberty for a significant portion of her populace, fought anti-lynching laws, legalized oppression, and fought against political equality right up until the very end.

Thats their history. Let them defend it.

[stainlessbanner]

dixie bump

[stainlessbanner]

If the Confederate multiculturalists believe in liberty, as many of them assert, they will stop waving the Stars and Bars, abandon the cause of a nation state that championed an unforgivable violation of inalienable rights, and embrace the rich American heritage of individualism.

Confederate history is American history!

Nothing displays individualism more than the sovereignty of a state, the people.

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[WKB]

MS PIng

[vetvetdoug]

Its ok for everyone to celebrate and show respect to their heritage except me.