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You're very proud of that new talking point. Too bad it's separated from reality.
Who backed the 1619 project?
Which First Lady said out loud that the White House was built by slaves?
Who's arguing for racial relations and their history to be taught in school?
Conversely:
Who waves confederate flags?
Which party had legislators unironically suggesting that schools needed to teach the "good" of slavery?
Didn't several Republiacn state reps - just a few months back - unironically suggest that the 3/5ths compromise was actually anti-slavery?
I'll leave you with this word salad from the president of the Women's Republican Club of New Orleans:
Who owned the slaves?
Who passed Executive Order 9066 which threw people in prison based on ethnicity and without due process?
Who passed every single Jim Crow Law?
Who was less supportive of all the Civil Rights Act?
So would I but it has nothing to do with Slavery.. It has everything to do with going to the toilet in the middle of the night without having to put on my shoes!
We both are better off today. It's cleaner and the technology is better. For me, slavery and Jim Crow are a big part of it. If I lived in the Virginia of John Boy Walton, I would be living in a Jim Crow regime, where segregation was the law of the land. If I lived in the Virginia of Robert E. Lee, I'd be a slave.
Virginia has a better economy than most parts of the South. I'd rather live in today's Virginia than the Virginia of Robert E. Lee or John Boy Walton.
Why would I, as an African-American, want to live in the Virginia of John Boy Walton or Robert E. Lee? Why would I want to live in the Virginia of Jim Crow and Slavery? What benefit would it have been to me? Why would the Virginia of today be a worse place for me than the Virginia of the Jim Crow/Depression era or the slavery era?
The person I responded to claimed that America was in declined, and expressed sadness that the Virginia of John Boy Walton and Robert E. Lee was gone. I asked him what I, an African-American, would have gotten from living in the Virginia of those days. I'm still awaiting a response.
Keep making things up. The more posts you make, the dishonest they get. You have provided no proof to back up anything you've said. Instead you make things up about others. Juvenile.
We both are better off today. It's cleaner and the technology is better. For me, slavery and Jim Crow are a big part of it. If I lived in the Virginia of John Boy Walton, I would be living in a Jim Crow regime, where segregation was the law of the land. If I lived in the Virginia of Robert E. Lee, I'd be a slave.
Yep... Its all about your POV.
If you lived in Cameroon in 1600, you might have been a King..
I'm pretty sure even you aren't going to argue that Lee didn't fight against Lincoln, so... What's your point?.
He fought for his country. Ignore that truth all you want. It's laughable
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Originally Posted by Dane_in_LA
There's no honor in fighting well for a bad cause. And I'm at the point where I don't give two confederate pennies if taking a statue of Lee down hurts the fee-fees of the rebels without either cause nor clue who seem to hero-worship him.
defending country and your property rights is the best cause.
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