Posted on 07/13/2013 5:43:00 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
Unfortunately, the author being interviewed for this piece, going along with modern obsessions, has to turn the riot into a race riot, with evil whites attacking innocent blacks as the main event.
Which did indeed happen. But the riots did not start over race, and most of those killed were not black.
Also, the notion that "black troops won the war" is pretty stupid.
Just a byproduct from an earlier post of an infantile liberal trying, desperately trying to find some example of white-rioting to counter the very, very real threat of black rioting, over virtually anything, today.
It is rather pathetic if you ask me. Liberals just don’t have the artillery to do battle on a logical and reasonable level.
That's a questionable claim.
“It is rather pathetic if you ask me. Liberals just don’t have the artillery to do battle on a logical and reasonable level.”
They get activist judges to impose their will on the rest of us so they don’t have to.
A little more devious than that. They proactively, proactively FOMENTED and INCITED discord far in advance of any judicial action.
Witness - employees of the CRS unit of the DOJ actively incite and foment black protests to get the Florida authorities to charge Zimmerman. Failing that, the limp-peckered Florida Governor was pressured to appoint a special prosecutor who did.
The author also doesn’t seem to understand that even 150 years ago, New York - despite pockets are poverty - was still fairly rural. Most of NYC was concentrated in what is now Lower Manhattan.
I believe it was mostly Irish immigrants who rioted and looted and lynched. They held it against black folks that they were being conscripted to fight a war they didn’t understand. Of course, NYC was the hotbed of Copperhead activity.
But, if as we are being told, the Zimmermann trial ends in some other fashion than The Racist-in-Chief and his gang of traitors desire, your point:
"...the very, very real threat of black rioting, over virtually anything, today...",
may be realized.
No, its not a questionable claim, its a nutty claim. The war was won ten days earlier at Gettysburg and Vicksburg; although it would drag on for twenty months, Lee had lost the ability to maneuver and the South had lost Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas with the fall of Vicksburg and the capture of the Miss. River. Once they arrived in Manhattan, it took the Union Army, including many disabled soldiers (the Invalided ones) about 15 minutes to take on and clear out the mob of rioters in New York, “tough guys” in a mob (some of whom had burned down a black orphanage with the kids in it) but who went running, terrified, for shelter at the first sign of the Army.
My point has already been realized - daily almost.
Black women jumping up on the counter at Burger king , anywhere public, freaking out because they did/didn’t get ketchup or the server ‘dissed’ them; hundreds of blacks storming stores to destroy and loot; blacks EVERYWHERE playing “knock out on some whitey because it’s ‘fun’; playing “white girl bleed a lot” when it’s more than ‘fun’; 4 Trayvons beating pushing a white man into traffic that killed him; and on and on and on and on.
Watch Gangs of New York for a version of these events.
It is also very important to note that some of the major New York newspapers had been purchased by rabid “Copperheads”, northern Democrats bitterly opposed to the war, who used those papers to stimulate rioters as much as possible.
Copperheads damaged the Union war effort by fighting the draft, encouraging desertion, and forming conspiracies to undermine the war effort. They talked of helping Confederate prisoners of war seize their camps and escape. They sometimes met with Confederate agents and took money. The Confederacy encouraged their activities whenever possible.
Importantly, the Copperheads were radicals, mostly pro-slavery, and distinguishable from the “Butternuts”, who were more pacifistic.
Unfortunately, that version bears essentially no relationship to reality.
Agreed. Scorsese’s version of events was melodramatic and bogus.
Mayor Opdyke to the Common Council July 27, 1863
Just Democrats acting as they always do. KKK, Jim Crow laws, anti-civil rights, etc.
And to the NSA trolls, FU.
Also pretty silly is mentioning all the battles/revolts in NYC without mentioning any of the Revolutionary War battle.
He equates it with Stonewall as well. Sick.
Strangely there seems to be no mention of Tammany Hall of the of the Democrat party and its’ roll in the riots.
Nobody wanted to fight for the old Whig Lincoln, the Africans or his Yankee Banditos. Should have been forced from office before he attacked SC!
More like the democrat New Yorkers didn’t want to fight the democrat southron insurrectionists.
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