“defenders of the Confederate legacy”
No matter what you think or do, the Confederacy and Slavery will always be connected in history and equated with one another.
There, fixed it for you. Yank
Yes, but that 'connection' shouldn't be shrouded in the revisionist history that is taught to those minds of mush trapped in the government propaganda centers (aka-public school), written by radical, left-wing, South hating, race baiting, northeast liberal yankees.
Did you read the whole article? The last paragraph is a perfect example of why we need a Confederate History month.
But truth is, when the South fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the war, there were eight slave states in the Union and only seven in the Confederacy. And The odds were against the Confederate soldier even owning any slaves. And everyone in the South’s anger of the North was made worse when the slave-owners in Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky, the slave holding states that remained in the Union were allowed to keep their slaves.
Confederate soldiers who did not own slaves were fighting against a proportion of Union Army soldiers who had not been asked to give theirs up.
Only by the ignorant
And, might I add, the Demoncrat party.
“No matter what you think or do, the Confederacy and Slavery will always be connected in history and equated with one another.”
The real outcome of the Civil War and the passage of the 14th Amendment is that they closed the southern plantation and freed the African slaves, opened the federal plantation and made us all slaves. More than four score years later, after the so-called “Civil War,” the federal government defeated our former union of sovereign states. This began the “Reconstruction Era” during which our original form of government was fundamentally altered. Just what was “reconstructed?” And, as a result of “reconstruction,” what are we now?
In the course of time, beginning with the “reconstruction era,” have we not all been reduced to the status that can best be described as federally-owned slaves? Are we not, at best, sharecroppers?
The fedgov is our new master, compelling our servitude and tribute with taxes and regulations beyond anything the founding fathers would have imagined or tolerated.
So will the United States and slavery, if people like you keep it up. Don't you get it? The crusade to demonize the Confederacy is just an opening battle in a war to demonize America. If you're too PC to have caught on to that fact, then try listening to the speeches of even "conservatives" such as Condi Rice.
A few years ago there was a New York Times art critic who dismissed an exhibit of Classical Greek art as unworthy because the Greeks practiced slavery. This is all part of an on-going effort to eradicate Western history. But didn't other cultures practice slavery even more vociferously than Western nations, you may ask? Of course, but that doesn't count. It's simply erased from history.
Want proof? How often have you sneered at African history on the grounds that it will always be connected and equated with slavery? The African people practiced slavery a hell of a lot more than we ever did, and they'd even be practicing it today if other nations hadn't stopped them. Practicing it legally, I mean, since there still is slavery in many black-controlled nations, practiced under the radar.
“...the Confederacy and Slavery will always be connected in history and equated with one another.”
Sadly, true. It was more a states’ rights effort than slavery; slavery was tangential.
How true. Ignorance cannot be eradicated.
Only by a few of the most ignorant people who never bother to study history.
Only by those who are ignorant and dumbed down. Which sadly thanks to a woafully inadequate public education system is far too many.
We can have a ‘black’ anything, any day, any college, any anything, but whatever you do, don’t use ‘white’, ‘south’, ‘confederacy’. That’s verboten.