Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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and one of you posts that the war was not about either of those two things, and the other agrees with that post. Talk about whitewashing history, talk about changing history, right in the face of iron clad evidence, well,folks, there you have it. |
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As a matter of fact, the north was willing to allow slavery to continue in the states where it was already established. It was the disagreement about whether or not new states would be allowed to become slave states, based upon their own volition, as opposed to a Federal prohibition on the institution of slavery in new territories and eventually the states that they would become, that was the ground upon which they would not compromise. Nobody here is saying the north was innocent of the sin of white supremacy over the negro (using the accepted terminology of the time). In fact there was no allowance for equality for the black man, following the Emancipation Proclamation. Given all of that, as proclaimed by Alexander Stephens, the Confederacy was founded on the principle that the White Man was superior to the Black Man, and it was the White Man's right to hold the Black Man a slave, and the war was fought to preserve that ideal and that institution. To claim otherwise is, to borrow from another thread, to claim "the grass is blue". |
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But sure, carry on...
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2. He later publicly apologized for being a member, and warned young people in an interview to NOT join the Klan. 3. He wrote, in a note to a segregationalist senator from Mississippi, "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." If you want to defend that, or excuse it as a reflection of the times, or think it's not nearly as bad as whatever you want to "what about" this week.... if this doesn't mortify you, and horrify you, and make you feel grateful as hell we don't live in that time now, and doesn't make you want to do whatever you can to ensure that it never happens again.... then you're just another white supremacist, and that would explain your attitude toward this topic. Yes, it was a different time, then. We have evolved. If you don't like it, go find yourself a hole somewhere where you can pretend you're still in the slave days and put a sign on the front of your cave that says "no negros allowed." You might as well, because that's how you feel. |
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They mean everything. They just don't serve as an argument against the Civil War being about the preservation of human slavery.
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I'm beginning to think you're simply projecting...
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Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway Last edited by Byte1; 09-19-2021 at 01:08 PM. |
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No one needs to have "yes, the south was, and still is racist" shoved in their faces every time they want to visit a public park. If that sentiment bothers you, then look inward as to why. |
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Another member called me the same.. Funny, as a Jew, the "White Supremacists" would never have me as a member... Go figure... Curing the Civil War, my family was running for their lives, from the Pogroms...
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Wait, what?
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