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

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I'm not playing any card at all.

YOU are the one who brought up race itt first.

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No, actually ... you called me a racist because I said it was time to get over that shite. Here's a quote, from you ...

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TbirdSpur2010

This racism is pure and it is beautiful

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I'm Scotch-Irish ... we got over the bullshite long ago. Could give a frick even.

Most of the fricktards millennials in this thread didn't even have family here until after the War of Northern Aggression ... much later actually.

And I wanna be open here. I'm not racist, but I am the least white guilt cracker in the room ... I can promise you that. I have zero guilt about anything done before I was born. My Dad's side came into this country through Charleston in 1706. My wife's side came into Charleston in 1669 and is one of the oldest family names in the state although her father was serving in post WWII Italy when he met her mother and she was eventually born there and raised there much of her life ... she's still a South Carolinian.

All of the men in my family have served in every war this country has known ... every war, proudly. My people never owned slaves, not in my lineage anyways although some uncles and cousins in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee did ... but we didn't. Most in my family fought for States' Rights ... and we've got the journals to prove it.

Most Southerners felt the same way. Only the big plantation owners wanted the slavery.

But allow me to present you with a paradoxical question if I may Tbird.

Let's say I had a time machine and you and I could hold hands and sing kumbaya and go back to 1581 St Augustine, FL, where the first slaves were brought into this country ... let's say we go back to 1580 or 79 or whatever. YOu can change things ... what would you change? You have the power, with the snap of your fingers, to change it ... what would you change?