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re: 5 Reasons not to ban the confederate flag
Posted on 6/29/15 at 10:47 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 6/29/15 at 10:47 am to kywildcatfanone
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The core reason for the civil war was about states rights. I thought most everyone knew that, until I started reading threads on TD. Revisionist history only matters to the revisionists.
I feel impelled, Mr. President, to vote for this Ordinance by an overruling necessity. Years ago I was convinced that the Southern States would be compelled either to separate from the North, by dissolving the Federal Government, or they would be compelled to abolish the institution of African Slavery. This, in my judgment, was the only alternative; and I foresaw that the South would be compelled, at some day, to make her selection. The day is now come, and Alabama must make her selection, either to secede from the Union, and assume the position of a sovereign, independent State, or she must submit to a system of policy on the part of the Federal Government that, in a short time, will compel her to abolish African Slavery.
Speech given at the Secession Convention of Alabama
A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.
SC Declaration of Secession
Sorry, the "States Rights" bullshite is the product of the Lost Cause myth. The core issue was slavery, plain and simple.
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Posted on 6/29/15 at 10:58 am to AUCatfish
There is a lot of arguing about points that don't matter here. The confederate flag should be no more offensive than the flag that flew and allowed slavery for the 100 years prior to the civil war. The confederate flag should have been removed after the war, and not because of slavery, but because the war was decided. The fact that it's being done 130 years later is silly.
A flag is hurtful to people because some jack arse has it and shoots up a church? You know what, it's hurtful to me when a black guy shoots a white person. Not because of race, but because people are killing one another.
It's 2015, time to stop being upset that a white person kills a black person, be upset that your fellow man is taking the lives of others.
A flag is hurtful to people because some jack arse has it and shoots up a church? You know what, it's hurtful to me when a black guy shoots a white person. Not because of race, but because people are killing one another.
It's 2015, time to stop being upset that a white person kills a black person, be upset that your fellow man is taking the lives of others.
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