Posted on 07/02/2015 11:28:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
While Americans have collectively been wringing their hands and fretting over how to respond to the recent very tragic South Carolina church shooting, many have blamed a relic of our distant past for everything racial that ails America.
The Confederate battle flag has become an emblem of our evil past, and calls for everything ‘Confederate’ to be expunged from American society has begun to reach a fevered pitch.
It seems those calling for this erasure of history believe its removal will solve our nations racial troubles, when in reality it will only salve for some the divide between races that has been building now for six years under the Obama administration.
Like many Americans at the time of the War of the Rebellion whose families fought for both sides, I too have ancestors who served bravely for both the Union and the Confederacy. Both wounded in battle at some of the major engagements that occurred during that terrible time in our nation’s history.
Just as I am proud of my Great-Grandfather Sergeant Henry Wilber who serving for the Army of the Potomac and was wounded at both Antietam and Gettysburg, I too am proud of my Great-Grandfather Captain Henry Guibor, who was seriously wounded at Grand Gulf, and who commanded Guibor’s Battery under the Confederate Battle Flag all the way until the end of the war.
Neither all Rebels nor all Yankees necessarily fought either to preserve the institution of slavery, or rid that blemish on American history, but the heritage of bravery that they and thousands of others on both sides displayed transcends any simple relic now adorning license plates, or hanging on the wall of taverns all across America.
As one who considers himself to be a patriotic American, and while recognizing the many arguments and protestations of those who would continue to fly the Confederate Battle Flag, the reality is that very flag represents what was then an act of treason and insurrection against the United States of America. Just as the first Americans who flew the original Star Bangled Banner were committing treason against the Crown during our Revolutionary War.
One thing though is abundantly clear, Americans are being distracted by this new divisive issue seemingly created out of thin air, and which is being used by the Obama administration to further divide us and distract us from grave issues facing this nation.
The Obama Administration seems intent on bringing home a nuclear deal with Iran, regardless of the conditions being insisted on by the Islamic Republic, which offer no guarantees that they will cease their efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon.
Their often stated intentions of destroying the “Little Satan” Israel, as well as the “Big Satan” the United State of America, should be taken at face value. Iran has done nothing since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 to change its position and its ultimate goal.
So while we are distracted by this shiny object off on the periphery, the Obama administration appears to be on the threshold of trading American national security simply in order to obtain some perceived legacy foreign policy achievement for the Obama presidency.
Oh look a squirrel, no, a big red ball, no a shiny quarter laying on the ground.
I’m a liberal and easily distra...look, a helicopter. ted.
Oooh, a firetruck.
As a person with honorable Confederate ancestors and deep Southern roots , no entity , no elements can ever ‘expunge ‘ the love of memory of my Southern and Confederate roots from my heart and mind . I am sure this sentiment is shared by 10’s of 1000’s , if not millions , of other Americans . The REAL Americans , whose ancestry stems from the pre-Revolutionary War era , and not this current crop of no-root immigrants and clueless dupes . We whose fathers and fore father and those with Confederate ancestors will never forget where we stand or what we stand for . For those that disagree : there’s the door .
Well said. The Confederate flag stands for States’ rights, NOT for pro slavery. That is a simplistic distortion offered up for consumption by a duped populous. It is a distortion of not only the flag, but the whole of the Civil War - also known as the War of Northern Aggression.
The more I have read about the roots of the Civil War (not what was fed to us in school), the more respect I have for the South’s position. Don’t get me wrong, I abhor slavery of any kind, but that was not the main reason for the war that killed more than half a million people and conquered and destroyed what was, in fact, a separate country.
” the victors write the history “ .....
how strange that our present U.S. Government has become one of the foremost apologists for the greatest continuing agent of enslavement and slavery still existing in the world today : ISLAM and muslims . How interesting that so many black Americans are attracted to black Islam .....
Father, forgive them , they know not what they do . Not then , not now
Deo Vindice
lock & load
I am reading the Koran and I have seen some frightening passages in that book. Anyone who thinks Islam is the religion of peace needs to read it for themselves. The mention of slavery is everywhere in it. It is an accepted thing that unbelievers can be slaves and also that they should be punished and killed. America needs to wake up.
Guillotine the murderer. No other response is necessary. Locking up violent insanos BEFORE they kill people would be nice though.
If you want to know how committed a liberal is to the cause, corner one in a dark parking lot or alley someday. You’ll find that the liberal is more concerned about preserving his skin than any liberal cause.
YA THINK???
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