re: Judge rules against opponents of removing Confederate memorials ...

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America's role as the leader of democratic nations was cemented by the Civil War, not the Revolution of 1776 or either of the World Wars. We showed the world that we would not back down from our pledge to offer equal opportunity to everyone and that there would be no one excluded from the human rights and dignity afforded by our Constitution.

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This is as much revisionist history as the notion that the south did not secede over slavery.

The north did not go to war in a crusade to end slavery. They went to war to preserve the union and, more directly, because the south started shooting at them. Slavery ended in the south three years before it ended in the north.

Seventy five years after that war ended, another war began and immediately saw over a hundred thousand American citizens stripped of their property, their dignity, their constitutional rights, and their freedom based SOLELY on their ancestry.

The civil war served to hasten the end of an utterly vile and evil institution, but the rest of what you said is utter nonsense and completely disproven by historical fact.