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

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Anyone who doesn't know that the awful Civil War was centered on the issue of slavery is being mindfully ignorant. I can't recall a conflict within another nation that was caused by the principle that freedom is for all citizens.

It may sound weird but I'm glad for the war. It has resounded through the 151 years of history since it ended.

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.

Long live America, the land of equal opportunity.

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Kentucky allowed the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue correct?

And all Confederate memorials are under attack, all across the South.

So it'll be okay when they decide to bulldoze the Confederate cemeteries too huh? Because there are already proposals for that to happen in one place.

I mean it's not like all the Muslim statues going up, silently across the country ... it's not like this is anything comparable to what ISIS is doing to the history of Syria right now, is it? Tearing down old Christian monuments because, well, they don't like them ... they find them offensive to Allah and all.

I read what some of you people in this thread are typing ... and it's disgusting. You just don't get it.

It's pathetic.

You cannot white wash a history of a region, or a country, just because you find certain past aspects of it offensive. It's just not done in civilized countries.

This is 2016. This is not the same America that it was 150-450 years ago. But people in this region should still be allowed to retain some semblance of their culture and tradition, retain their honor. Many a Southerner fought in other wars for this country.

So is it time to remove statues of Harry S. Truman ... because he is offensive to the Japanese? Or FDR for that matter, because he interned so many Japanese Americans?

This is a slippery slope and I had hoped we could have an adult, intelligent, conversation about the subject on this forum ... but I should have known better. Too many millennial pussies around here ... too much playing the race card. It makes anything resembling an adult conversation impossible.