Posted on 06/23/2015 7:43:33 PM PDT by virtuous
Edited on 06/23/2015 7:55:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Everywhere you go there down here in Texas you see the Confederate flag as one of the six flags over Texas. Houston, I think we have a problem!
It won’t be long before there’s a cry to remove Washington and Jefferson from the public square.
This is turning into a full-fledged PURGE of things Confederate.
Heard during a headline news break this evening that a school in Ft. Smith, AR will no longer allow the song ‘Dixie’ to be played at school functions.
You don't know much about the south, do you?
Constant Skeptic wrote:
“But, hey, that’s so much different than ISIS who whips, rapes, sells... oh, never mind.”
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So: are you saying that two wrongs somehow make a ‘right’?
Nobody today is responsible for the slavery that took place in the U.S. in centuries past. In fact, many of those who died in the Civil War, died because they personally wanted to END slavery in the U.S.
Slavery, and much worse, are taking place all over the Middle East and Africa, as we speak/write.
How do you propose that we end slavery Over There? Or, do you just want to argue and tear-down?
-JT
Obviously Paul was a republican. /s
It’s all part of fundamentally changing America.
highly coordination strike against America
Byrd did that to get elected. He wasn’t really a racist. That’s according to Bill Clinton.
Everything that is happing is all right here http://denbeste.nu/external/idealogical_war.pdf
Yes, do be careful about preconceptions, Skeptic. And it’s a pretty good idea not to believe anything that was written after communism began in America without rock solid proof (photographs).
(You know what propaganda is, right?)
(Be careful about preconceptions)
The numbers are out there, if you look, but 90+% of the white southerners were not slave owners. There were black slave owners. There were Northern slaveowners (who, no doubt, whipped, raped, and sold their slaves).[did I get the order right? /s]
Reality check:
The vast majority of those who could afford a slave would not so damage their investment by abusing it, but would rather be more motivated to provide food, housing, clothing, adequate medical care (for the day), so their investment could work and provide a return on that investment.
Sure, there were the abusive out there, just as there are wife beaters and child molesters today, but the majority of people do not fall into the far tip of the worst of the bell curve now, nor did they then.
Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a novel: abolitionist sympathetic fiction prone to the hyperbole of the day, a form of hyperbole which led to the fictions of rampaging shootouts across the "Wild Wild West" just a decade later--after all, it sells newspapers and magazines!
The South did not invent slavery. It was a very well established institution throughout the world long before either whites or negroes set foot on this continent, and many of the tribes more native to this place practiced it well before the first Vikings set foot on the shores of North America.
Now, for extra credit, Who wrote the words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."?
OMG!! A white, Southern, slaveowner.
I think that if you do a few decades of good, solid research, you will find the issues which led to secession and war went back to the 1820s and beyond. But slavery was only one of many issues which confronted these United States in their first 60 years under the Constitution.
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