I look on the Confederate flag as a symbol of treason and separation. We have one flag- The Stars and Stripes. The flag our soldiers have fought under to vanquish tyranny around the world time and again and it is the flag our men and women serve under today. It sure as hell isn’t the flag being raised on Mt. Surabachi. Do I think slavery was racist? No. I see it as the forced enslavement of people as a source of servitude and hard labor with no compensation save being keep alive and feed long enough to produce work and the ever present threat of capricious punishment and the threat of being sold off to some other slave owner. Slavery was not only confined to blacks. Through out history people of all races have been enslaved. The simple fact is the North went to war to preserve the Union and won. The South went to war to preserve slavery and lost everything.
I see that Common Core history is alive and well...
typo”: meant say “The Stars and Bars isn’t the flag being raised on Mt. Surabachi’’.
We have one flag- The Stars and Stripes
It has often been pointed out that the Indian tribes felt they could get a better deal from the confederacy so that is why all the plains tribes from Canada to Mexico went on the warpath, except the pro-Union Pawnee and Crow.
The Cherokees had Stand Watie as a Confederate General, and the last one to surrender. The Choctaws also joined with the Confederacy.
It was generally believed that Confederate agents kept the plains tribes stirred up.
George Bent, the son of charlie Bent of Taos was half Cheyenne who joined the Confederacy and fought in battles in Missouri, Arkansas, and others in the South. Two years later, he and his half brother are living with the Black Kettle band of southern Cheyenne at Sand Creek when Union officer Col. John Chivington attacked them. The scout for Chivington was none other than black mountain man Jim Beckwourth.
I look at your posts as symbols of ignorance and historical incompetence.
You’re a proven liar on this forum so who cares what you think?