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All of you that posted Lincoln's words, thanks. I always thought it was funny how so many of my fellow black people think that Abraham Lincoln was somehow the Saviour. I'd think, "You all need to read what really went down instead of that small paragraph in the high school history books."
You know, I read the same text books and for a long, long, long time I too scoffed at the sobriquet of Lincoln the Great Emancipator, but you know, at the end of the day that's exactly what he wound up being.
You mean the "right" of slave states to continue the practice of slavery.
If there were any "states rights" involved in this, then yes, the "right" of slave states to continue the practice of slavery is correct. Part of why I don't trust the term "states rights".
Slavery ... being erased from the memory of young Americans ! It's about time too !
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Originally Posted by Desert kid
Slavery wasn't the only reason you know, stop oversimplifying it. And in a way, they were defending themselves from the North.
FYI: MSNBC is probably even MORE Liberally biased than FOX is Conservativly biased.
Desert kid !!! ... Precisely !
Indeed the totally worn out and ridiculously over used fixation regarding slavery during the historical period known as the "War of Northern Aggression" has finally at long last just about reached an end in America !
It's about dang time too ! Only a total puddin head would continue to apply the "Blame & Guilt Game" regarding this long, long time ago blip on the American history screen !
It's a shame too ... America to this day has a few folks running around in similar types of old Southern slave clothing and such ! I assume they want to keep the Slavery thing in peoples face and just ah going on for as long as they can!
It appears they have pitifully over played their "Race Card Hand" don't you think ???
May we be thankful there are no real life slaves around today (except for the brain washed pretend they are crew) ! Although there may be some places on this earth today whom would be very happy to allow them to act the part for real !!!
May we ... each and every one of us who are citizens of what is left of America, learn to get along, work together for the common good, and strive mightly to re-establish a formidable America for the long term !!!
If there were any "states rights" involved in this, then yes, the "right" of slave states to continue the practice of slavery is correct. Part of why I don't trust the term "states rights".
The right of the states to govern themselves without federal interference.
Do we really need a Secretary of Education? He or she isn't doing any of YOU any good.
Interesting Article, sure to be accused of being written by someone unknowledgeble of the Civil War.
Five myths about why the South seceded
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/07/AR2011010703178.html1 (broken link).
The South seceded over states' rights.
Confederate states did claim the right to secede, but no state claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact, Confederates opposed states' rights -- that is, the right of Northern states not to support slavery.
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Slavery ... being erased from the memory of young Americans ! It's about time too !
