School bus driver fired over Confederate flag

Things do look bleak today. But the 10 or 20% of our kids who were raised right will form an awesome force when the SHTF, compared to cowardly, stupid and unorganized rabble.

Twenty knights templar never had much problem cutting through 100s of rabble. I suspect there may be a few Forrests and Mosbys out there, and plenty to ride with them when the time comes.

Marine Recon in Afghanistan.

Not very diverse, I'll admit.

No diversity at all, when you remove the translators.

Anybody who wants to tangle with those boys needs to seriously think about it.

And I'll bet that more than half come from the South, and most of the rest are from rural red state America.

The shooting was in 1995. Michael Westerman was a resident of Todd County, KY, just north of the Tennessee line, and a graduate of a high school located a few miles from Jefferson Davis' birthplace. The Confederate battle flag was a school symbol and he was proud to be the first in his family to complete high school. He and his wife were parents of 5-week-old twins and were going out for the first time since the babies were born when the four young black men in another car saw the rebel flag and chased them for several miles before managing to kill Michael.

The pickup had tinted windows and the black guys didn't know who was inside. Later they claimed he had called them the N-word but Michael's wife said that he never spoke to them.

It got some national attention at the time--Tony Horwitz had a snarky piece in the New Yorker about the incident (his attitude seemed to be that the white people of Todd Co. were just a bunch of racist losers and that Michael's death was no loss to society)---later expanded into a book called Confederates in the Attic.

The civil war was initiated by southern fire-eaters upset that anyone might interfere with their "peculiar Institution". The would-be confederacy cobbled up a constitution that was a virtual carbon-copy of the constitution they abandoned with one exception - the memorialization of the perpetual right to own other human beings. Therefore the Civil War was about slavery.

Ulysses S Grant owned slaves before, during and even AFTER the cw.!

And I'm not sure why you introduced Grant into the discussion but your mis-characterizing his slave ownership. On August 28, 1848, Grant married Julia Dent from St. Louis, whose family held slaves. From 1854 to 1858, he labored on a family farm near St. Louis, Missouri, using slaves owned by Julia's father, but it did not prosper. That means that Grant supervised slave labor without ownership.

Grant himself owned a slave named William Jones, acquired from his father-in-law. Grant purchased him so that he could manumit him.

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