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In other words, polls show that people support the removal of the confederate flag 3:1.
some things will be forgotten along the way
In other words, polls show that people support the removal of the confederate flag 3:1.
Never once did I say that there should be a law against flying a confederate flag. People should be free to make any statement they want... and that includes showing your support for the traitors that made war against American soldiers and against the flag that they, the Union troops, flew as they marched into battle.... (Hint... It's the one that still flies over my, and probably your, house today... The Stars & Stripes). My problem is with the fact that there are those that still want to fly the confederate flag. I do not, however, have a problem with their right to fly it. I think you misunderstood the sentiment in my comments.
So I guess it's safe to assume that you feel Abraham Lincoln should not have pushed Congress to adopt the 13th Ammendment abolishing the enslavement of an entire race of human beings. In your opinion, protecting the sovereignty of the states was more important than ending slavery. Correct me if I misunderstood you.
I just flat out disagree with the fact that slavery did not cause the Civil War. The theory has been advanced by Southern apologists that it wasn't about slavery.
All of the other issues could have been worked out. The United States, at it's core, is about compromise.
I just don't believe a war that went on for 4 years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives could have sustained itself on monied issues in the North or greed or whatever. There had to be a deeply emotional issue to sustain it. That issue was slavery.
I just don't believe a war that went on for 4 years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives could have sustained itself on monied issues in the North or greed or whatever. There had to be a deeply emotional issue to sustain it. That issue was slavery.
Sorry, but what you believe conflicts with actual History. You are suggesting that Southern Apologists have succeeded in re-writing history? All of those historians who have written about the Civil War from the North simply lost to those Southern apologists, accepted the South's narrative (despite living in the portion of the country that won the war), and have forever since kept their mouths shut about the "real truth?" Historians from Auburn, hypothetically, have silenced historians from MIT, Harvard and Yale? Come on brother
Let me ask you, if you were Abraham Lincoln (R), or a member of the North, then, or if you are a northerner now, which story would you prefer be written? A) We went to war to fight for the rights of enslaved African Americans, to abolish Slavery, or B) We went to war to protect our economic interests and force the South to buy our machinery.
Most would be JUMPING at the opportunity to say they fought for the more eloquent of the two issues. Yet history is written correctly, that it began around economics and secession. Slavery was a part of the mix, economically, and involving States Rights, but that's as far as it went until 1863.
Even Left-leaning PBS agrees. Nice little site with videos, btw: http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/
Sorry, but what you believe conflicts with actual History. You are suggesting that Southern Apologists have succeeded in re-writing history? All of those historians who have written about the Civil War from the North simply lost to those Southern apologists, accepted the South's narrative (despite living in the portion of the country that won the war), and have forever since kept their mouths shut about the "real truth?" Historians from Auburn, hypothetically, have silenced historians from MIT, Harvard and Yale? Come on brother
Let me ask you, if you were Abraham Lincoln (R), or a member of the North, then, or if you are a northerner now, which story would you prefer be written? A) We went to war to fight for the rights of enslaved African Americans, to abolish Slavery, or B) We went to war to protect our economic interests and force the South to buy our machinery.
Most would be JUMPING at the opportunity to say they fought for the more eloquent of the two issues. Yet history is written correctly, that it began around economics and secession. Slavery was a part of the mix, economically, and involving States Rights, but that's as far as it went until 1863.
Even Left-leaning PBS agrees. Nice little site with videos, btw: http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/
Historians from Auburn, hypothetically, have silenced historians from MIT, Harvard and Yale? Come on brother
Factually, this country was formed and built for it's first 80 years on the idea of compromise. I will not buy the argument that some of the other issues you state could not have found a compromise. That was our genius and it failed us. In years since there have been plenty of other issues that have divided the nation, yet never caused a war. Issues similar to the ones you present. Yet no war. What was the one thing that stood out in those years, the thing you cannot escape? Slavery. The war would never have been fought over those other things. They would've been worked out, if not for the issue of slavery.
Another thing, I have read credible historians who have stated that in the years immediately following the war there would have little argument to it's cause. Slavery. It began as the years progressed to get whitewashed into other things. To the point where you had Hollywood, hardly a bastion of conservative thought even in the 1930s, making a movie like 'Gone with the Wind" in which the slaves where shown as just loving working at Tara.
In no way am I saying the poor Rebel soldier was fighting for slavery or the poor Union one was fighting against. It was the people that got them into the fix they were in.
Would we allow German government to fly a Nazi flag?
Amazed at how people blame a piece of cloth, or a book, or words for someones wrong doings. Society is ******* stupid. So are our supposed leaders.
oh look! a squirrel....