Do you notice that showing compassion for those who fought on the losing side, giving their lives to defend their country, is seen as a good thing, except when we’re talking about Confederates?
We have never held bitterness against those we have fought against. This is essentially because we distinguish society from government, and we recognize that things are complex.
The left is reverting to the old ways of confusing society and government, casting things as black or white, and judging others because of their color, their religion, or their nationality.
The Confederates were us. Americans as much as any Yankee.
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The Japanese of WWII were very racist.
Don't expect logic from liberals. It is all about f e e e e l i n g s
>>Do you notice that showing compassion for those who fought on the losing side, giving their lives to defend their country, is seen as a good thing, except when we’re talking about Confederates?
Mexico still won’t return the Texas flag from the Alamo
http://www.expressnews.com/sa300/article/Texans-have-long-sought-Alamo-flag-11732935.php
Texans have tried for decades to secure the return from Mexico of a silk banner long associated with the 1836 siege and Battle of the Alamo.
...The latest effort to bring home the 4-by-3-foot New Orleans Greys banner comes from U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, who announced in July that he included language in a foreign relations bill that urges the U.S. State Department to renew talks with Mexico for the Alamo flag’s return...
...Claude D’Unger, an oil industry consultant who helped try to have the flag returned in 1986 for the Texas sesquicentennial, told the Express-News in 2011 that members of Congress sought to have it displayed at the Institute of Texan Cultures after Mexican officials raised concern that an Alamo exhibition would spawn demonstrations or rioting in Mexico...
...Under President Harry S. Truman, with the approval of Congress, the United States returned more than 70 flags to Mexico in 1947 and 1950 that had been seized about 100 years earlier during the U.S.-Mexican War. Despite recent tensions between the two nations and President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the Rio Grande, to be funded by Mexico, Gray said she believes exchanging the 1830s flags on both sides of the border, through a mutual act of repatriation, would foster reconciliation and goodwill, and promote national pride in both countries.
“I think enough time has gone by that we should give the flags back,” ...
We did that for a century.
What's going on now may just be a blip.
If it is, I hope we don't go back to maligning abolitionists and supporters of Reconstruction, the way we used to.