Posted on 10/31/2017 8:17:25 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly waded into the long-simmering dispute over the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders saying in a televised interview on Monday night that "the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War."
In the interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle," host Laura Ingraham asked Kelly about the decision by Christ Church, an Episcopal congregation in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, to remove plaques honoring President George Washington and Robert E. Lee, the commander of Confederate forces during the Civil War.
"Well, history's history," said Kelly, whom President Donald Trump moved from secretary of homeland security to be his chief of staff in July. "You know, 500 years later, it's inconceivable to me that you would take what we think now and apply it back then. I think it's just very, very dangerous. I think it shows you just how much of a lack of appreciation of history and what history is."
Confrontations over removal of Confederate monuments have exposed deep rifts in American society between advocates who argue that the Civil War is a foundation stone of American history whose combatants acted out of conscience and those who contend that the memorials honor Southern defenders of slavery who betrayed their country by launching an armed rebellion.
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And yet here you are. It isn’t just that you haven’t a single clue what you’re talking about - it’s that you so completely revel in your ignorance.
Yes, here I am talking to some yokel on the internet who thinks he has a property claim to anything hes ever touched, just like a good little Democrat.
No, here I am talking to a dimwitted dhimmicrat who feeeeeels that anything that ain’t nailed down is good for the taking. Thieving curs like you are what set our nation on fire - but don’t worry - I’ve got a good hold on my wallet.
Not nailed down = any square inch of dirt within the 50 states or any thin dime confiscated by the IRS. But tell me you, youre a rock ribbed Republican, yessiree.
In round numbers all international trade south and east of the Blue Ridge went through the port of Charleston SC.
It was huge.
The depredation they suffered in the war was clearly foreseeable, and the benefits they would have during and after it by siding with the British. If Charleston COULD have gone Loyalist it would have, and so would most all that depended upon the port.
On reflection I can see my explanation for Britain continuing the bone-headed manumission policy: no one could later believe a promise from them to protect slavery after that.
Protecting slavery may have been a preeminant reason for war to SC but not to any of the other colonies.
I was also born in NE NJ, now live in PA but have lived, worked or traveled in nearly every state and have relatives scattered all across the country, about half in the South.
Today my Southern born mother lies in PA beside my PA born father, both patiently waiting the day of resurrection.
From all I know that pro-Confederates who post their Civil War lies here do not represent a majority, but rather just the last of the old Southern Democrats, the Dixiecrats.
They hate old Republicans and new Democrats equally, and it just frosts them that nobody today is buying their nonsense.
But we do take them seriously, especially since some may well be my in-laws, and we want to keep peace in the family.
;-)
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