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Really? You mean the slave owners in the South believed that African slaves were created equal to them and that they had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
You mean you forget that the Southern traitors started the war by bombarding a sovereign United States military installation?
You mean that owning, selling, raping, and and working human beings without compensation is your idea of humanitarian and Christian treatment?
You apologists for slavery and treason make me sick.
I never rationalised anything, do you have the correct poster..can you point out the post where I "rationalized" something???
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You refuse to read about northern slavery... the source of all slavery in the USA.... and rag on southern slavery. Therefore, you are rationalizing northern slavery.
It's as if you think slavery was ok in Boston but a sin in Charleston.
I live eight miles from where that photo was taken. The native people of this area are as sophisticated, kind and well mannered as any I've encountered across the country. It's unfair to impugn them with that photo. Shall I post the picture of the Bostonian from the 70s beating a black man with an American flag in a misguided attempt to make an ignorant point about all urban Irish Catholics?
This is the ACTUAL PHOTO of the lynching of Leo Frank!!!!
If reality of what people factually did is impugning on the "good nature" of the people that live in that area, then maybe they should not have broken the " filthy northern jew" out of the jail, tortured, murdered, and then invited women and children to desecrate his body.
My great great grandfather fought the United States in a North Carolina outfit. I don't know much about him, but I generally assume the best of people until they prove otherwise. So, I assume that it is a black mark on an otherwise good life. I'm not proud that he took up arms against this great nation that I love and fight for. I'm not proud that he fired on troops who carried the flag I wear on my uniform. I realize, however, that sometimes foolishnesses can infect a people. I sincerely hope he lived to regret his treasonous actions after he was treated so kindly by this nation after his army was defeated on the battlefield. I hope in 2012 all southerners feel they are Americans first, southerners second.
Your great-great grandfather didn't fight against the principles of the United States. Likely he fought to defend his home against invaders from the northern states who simply kept the name United States by default.
There is no contradiction at all with being a proud American and proud of one's Southern heritage and history. It is a matter of record that Southerners have always been disproportiontely represented in our armed forces.
This holiday is to honor those who died in a war. Whether you agree or not they lost their lives for something they believed in. You cannot call them traitors for that. How can any of us judge or condemn people who fought a war over 100 years ago. I find it very sad that these lost lives are now being called traitors.
The 9/11 hijackers died fro something they believed in too. That doesn't make their cause just or honorable. I'm not besmirching the characters of all Confederates. I'm sure many of them were good men, just misguided. That doesn't excuse their acts of treason.
You refuse to read about northern slavery... the source of all slavery in the USA.... and rag on southern slavery. Therefore, you are rationalizing northern slavery.
It's as if you think slavery was ok in Boston but a sin in Charleston.
Your play on words are as pathetic as your attempt to deflect from the cause of the civil war.
This holiday is to honor those who died in a war. Whether you agree or not they lost their lives for something they believed in. You cannot call them traitors for that. How can any of us judge or condemn people who fought a war over 100 years ago. I find it very sad that these lost lives are now being called traitors.
I agree. These same people probably spit on the soldiers returning from Viet Nam. I guess we lost that one too.
Every soldier who died fighting for any country is a hero. They are all the same. German soldiers in WWII are just like American soldiers in Iraq. Heroes who died fighting for their country. It's quite sad that some people think soldier heroes are only those who agree with their own position.
Of course, the winners always write history. I wonder what the Vietnamese are writing about our soldiers who died in that war. I seriously doubt that any are saying they want to **** on the graves of American soldiers. They surely have more class than that.
The 9/11 hijackers died fro something they believed in too. That doesn't make their cause just or honorable. I'm not besmirching the characters of all Confederates. I'm sure many of them were good men, just misguided. That doesn't excuse their acts of treason.
Wow, you are comparing 911 with this. I don't think so.
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