“Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”
- Jefferson Davis
I call bull$#@!. You've got the meme down cold, I'll give you that, but your logic is flawed. Al-Qaeda is a current foreign enemy that occasionally recruits an American citizen, but for the most part, an extremist religious faction that's set its sight on the western world. The Nazis were also a foreign enemy.
The Confederates were the ancestors of MILLIONS of current Americans, meaning those Americans have an emotional link. Destroying their heritage would be like destroying destroying the heritage of Native Americans, who also once fought against the US.
Use your brain and think for yourself.
You can allow them to honor their ancestors without turning it into something ugly.
""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw
Collateral Damage (05-17-2019),MMC (05-16-2019)
Collateral Damage (05-17-2019),MisterVeritis (05-16-2019),MMC (05-16-2019)
You can call it whatever you wish, because I don’t care if you continue to spew the same ideological claptrap your ilk spews whenever you feel the need to try and change history.
Some facts...the Confederacy is based on white supremacy. Period. I don’t give a flying $#@! if your great gran-pappy Cooter told you wonderful stories of unicorn farts because that is just the revisionist history of what the confederacy was about.
$#@! their feelings, when they start caring about how ugly their ancestors treated my ancestors, then I might care about someone’s feelings.
“Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”
- Jefferson Davis
Dr. Who (05-16-2019)
Hey, @Standing Wolf, is this what you mean when you say, "libs just wanna discuss the issues"?
Cutesy Time is OVER
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Captdon (05-17-2019)
Dr. Who (05-16-2019)
The nature of parties in the 19th Century has no bearing on today. Furthermore, we are not talking about parties here, we are talking about a rather obscene attitude toward retaining slavery because the South was engaged in an active slave breeding program. The slaves were as much a merchantable good as the crops that they were tending. That was untenable in America and those who fought to retain it, even if it wasn't their only cause, were all too willing to continue regarding people as livestock whether they owned slaves themselves or not, because it was part of the GDP of the South. The truth is that the South was dominated by a certain type of elitist landowner that preferred to maintain something closer to a 17th century world where the rich were very rich and the poor were very poor and illiterate and the scarce mercantile middle class pandered to the wealthy. That economic model would have nonetheless been destroyed by the industrial revolution, but there is no reason to honor or revere a society that was at least as dysfunctional as the one that provoked the original pilgrimage to America.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Safety (05-17-2019)