Confederate holidays just days away (legal, suspect, solutions, economic)
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In a few days several states will have a state holiday honoring our beloved Confederate leaders.I just want to thank the people of the South for keeping the honor of these heroes alive.I hope all true southerners will take a child niece or nephew to a battlefield site to keep this great tradition alive,always Confederate Memorial Day
There is nothing wrong with honoring men and women who gave their life fighting for what they believed in. Even though I am not a "southerner", I feel much more in tune with a holiday commemorating sacrifices of the brave than a holiday that has been "created" for the sole purpose of buying someone a card.
Spin it however you choose. I'm sure you have already formed your opinion so I won't waste your time.
I honestly never heard of the holiday. I thought it was a day celebrating the confederacy. I see nothing wrong with honoring the dead, even if I disagree with their cause.
Less than 3% of confederate soldiers owned slaves.It was a war fought in our backyards,as a matter of fact recently in Ringgold,Ga,about 5 miles from here the remains of a herioc confederate soldier was unearthed with his Alabama medals and was laid to rest in a full Confederate funeral.It was beautiful.The southerner has been the most stereotyped,despised,written about,movies made about american by far.Yet we are over 60% of the fighting force in every war since The War of Northern Agression.America has never lost a war in their backyards but we have.Battlefields and little and big cemeteries alike liter our land.It is an honor for me never forget not only my ancestors but other southerners as well.I will gladly pass this along to every young child I can.
I was going to quote a definition, but I see that definitions don't mean much to people. I didn't realize that White Southerns equaled confederacy. Any White southerners on here care to comment?
My family has lived near Columbia, S.C. since 1741. They never owned any slaves, but they fought for the Confederacy. My GGGfather was wounded near Richmond on the way home from the Second Manassas.
I was raised by lily-white bigots who only had one word for any race that wasn't them, and my Gfather was a member of the klan.
"Confederacy" here still means racist (today it travels under the name "heritage"), and there are a lot of people I personally know who would love to see the South returned to its former "glory".
We should remember forever those that fought to defend their rights, their families and their farms. You may not agree with them, but they are heroes nonetheless.
The soldiers that fought on the side of the South are exactly equal to those who fought on the side of the North. And both are the same as those that fought in our Revolutionary war.
Heroes? No.
The soldiers that fought on the side of the South are exactly equal to those who fought on the side of Hitler, only for a different system of racial oppression.
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