Racial controversy for Obama on Memorial Day... Ayers sends petition to Prez to avoid Confederate military members.

[rlchurch]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

Blacks were killed in the North in equal numbers. The KKK was quite strong in the North. Coolidge had the most security for a president up to his time when he would visit Vermont, because of the violent KKK...

They were not.

[rlchurch]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

You can quote his official lines all you wish but it's well recorded what he did in the South. The feds had to keep at least the public image of their side good in the north and abroad. Same reason lincoln exploited slavery. To prevent foreign support for the South and to maintain support in the north.

Oh tell me about Macon, Athens, Madison, and Savannah.

Lincoln exploited slavery? Lincoln was very late in abolishing slavery.

[Sagran]

Originally Posted by NVplumber

Anything involved with the Confederacy is seen as 'racial', and as to Confederate soldiers having been 'our' enemies, remember, they were Americans to. Many aspects of the War Between the States are in need of reconciliation as yet methinks.

First off, I'm an American and I have no need to put the word our in quotation marks when discussing my country. Confederate soldiers were our enemies. If you don't feel that way, I have to question your patriotism to this country.

Those who fought for the Confederacy were Americans*, they fought America and were thus America's enemy, then they became Americans again. I have no issue honoring those who served America in the former or the latter periods on Memorial Day, but I absolutely do not accept honoring those in the middle for serving the Confederacy.

*For the nitpickers, "America" refers to the United States of America and not the Confederate States of America. Memorial Day is to honor those who served the United States of America.