Getting annoyed with the animals in this country History being destroyed
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And if we want to talk disenfranchised and downtrodden demographics, the same could be said of all southerners until just after the WWII industrial boom.
I can't imagine being a Confederate veteran in the aftermath of "Reconstruction." The fabric of what you knew (regardless of what it was) is torn asunder. Your family is living off of little more than cornmeal and water. You're still kept awake by haunting memories of Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, etc.
Having some recognition of your honor and sacrifice for yourhome is actually quite little to ask for as you review your life and take your first steps into eternity.
I can't imagine being a Confederate veteran in the aftermath of "Reconstruction." The fabric of what you knew (regardless of what it was) is torn asunder. Your family is living off of little more than cornmeal and water. You're still kept awake by haunting memories of Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, etc.
Having some recognition of your honor and sacrifice for yourhome is actually quite little to ask for as you review your life and take your first steps into eternity.
I was fortunate enough to know three of my four great-grandmothers. They grew up in the reconstruction south. Every thing that their families owned was either destroyed or taken from them. None of the families had any slaves, and the men fought because their way of life was threatened. All four families left South Carolina and migrated south to the wilderness of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. It took two generations for them to recover, and a two world wars for them to finally begin to grow an economy. The average age of the men of that era living in our area was in the low fifties.
These so called traitors were the first in line every time that the United States called for soldiers to defend the country in every war after the Civil War.
I'll be honest with you. I've traveled through 25 states. I have met more racists north of the Mason-Dixon line, than I have ever met in the south. Instead of tearing down a few statues to rile a few skin heads, why don't every one of you with such harsh criticism of the people and monuments of the south, clean up around your own front door. You might look to the south for guidance.
These so called traitors were the first in line every time that the United States called for soldiers to defend the country in every war after the Civil War.
I'll be honest with you. I've traveled through 25 states. I have met more racists north of the Mason-Dixon line, than I have ever met in the south. Instead of tearing down a few statues to rile a few skin heads, why don't every one of you with such harsh criticism of the people and monuments of the south, clean up around your own front door. You might look to the south for guidance.
Don't take this the wrong way because I am not racist in anyway. However what if white people wanted to destroy monuments of Rosa parks or Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King what would you say to that? What if people went after those staues saying they bother me they are racist etc.. I am asking because I want to know what if the shoe was in the other foot.
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I can tell a lot of people slept through history class. These men were not like the California freaks who just want to be their own country. They were hard-working men, family men, fighting what they felt was an isolated government in the North that was dragging them through the coals and was exploiting them to profit the North.
Which is why I would argue that Northerners are, on balance, more racist. If you do not admit or display your monstrosity, you are more likely to layer it in false virtue. The monstrosity is then given breathing space.
I moved South shortly after Obama was elected. It was fascinating- up North, people would describe him using the N-word if they thought you wouldn't go blabbing. In the South, dissatisfaction or satisfaction with him was not addressed on racial grounds.
I moved South shortly after Obama was elected. It was fascinating- up North, people would describe him using the N-word if they thought you wouldn't go blabbing. In the South, dissatisfaction or satisfaction with him was not addressed on racial grounds.
It's more of a both/and than it is an either/or scenario. If slavery was merely a political maneuver, why did the Southerners reference it in various Ordinances of Secession (TX,AL,VA)? Why was it featured in the Confederate constitution?
Why did we fight each other in Kansas and Missouri?
For multiple reasons, the Southerners believed their way of life was about to be stripped away at gun point by a government acting outside of its Constitutional bounds. Radical abolitionists themselves called for the discarding of the legal order in an effort to rid the country of slavery.
I am no apologist for the Confederate cause, but white washing either to favor the North or the South takes away from the real, stated reasons why the war was fought.
Why did we fight each other in Kansas and Missouri?
For multiple reasons, the Southerners believed their way of life was about to be stripped away at gun point by a government acting outside of its Constitutional bounds. Radical abolitionists themselves called for the discarding of the legal order in an effort to rid the country of slavery.
I am no apologist for the Confederate cause, but white washing either to favor the North or the South takes away from the real, stated reasons why the war was fought.
By all means, let's tear down all the statues that may offend someone, history is a crock anyway. Next, empty all of the museums of the offensive artifacts, they're probably fake anyway. Get rid of all plaques of the 10 Commandments as they are obsolete. Burn all the books in the library that hold a conservative point of view. Yeah, let's empty our pockets too while were at it.