Old Times are not forgotten in the South

Huntington News ^ | April 2, 2015 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

[BigReb555]

“The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”

[servantboy777]

Let's mention a few lil factoids all but forgotten through political correctness.

First, a few of the cruelest slave owners...were black men.
The North also held slaves.
White slaves at one time in America outnumbered black slaves.
Several in the North, I believe one of them was named Abraham Lincoln, kicked around the idea of recolonizing the blacks to the Caribbean and or Africa. They believed the black would not assimilate into society.

Slavery was bad, should never have happened. Fact is, probably would never have happened if blacks in Africa did not first sell conquer rival tribes into slavery.

Uncomfortable for some Yankees I realize, but can't erase history no matter how hard ya try.

[cowboyway]

You’re a bad servantboy! How dare you introduce facts into the yankee mysticism of being the great humanists and emancipators that they’ve written into their history books!

[servantboy777]

It is amazing how rapidly history has been rewritten.

Folks can argue the merits regarding the war of northern aggression all day long, but won’t change the facts. The civil war was fought because of states rights.

Slavery was certainly an aspect of all this because of the cheap labor used to produce product in the south. Not unlike the northern government of today allowing multinational corporations to outsource American manufacturing to countries that allow slave and or child labor to produce a product.

Furthermore, our borders are WIDE open for the purpose of allowing cheap labor into this country. So, here we are, over a hundred years since the so called war to end slavery by the northern federalist and now the northern federalist of our day...sanction slave labor.

Kind of a quinkie dink now isn’t it?

[central_va]

Idiots like you project 21st century values on 19th century people. In the 19th century slavery was legal and the “normal” state of things. Blacks were considered inferior of intellect, like children. Every one was a racist INCLUDING LINCOLN. Abolitionists were considered terrorists!

[FredZarguna]

Doesn’t change the fact that the “right” being defended was the “right” to buy, sell, and own human beings; a “right” no state ever had, or ever could possess.

[Phosgood]

“So if Cuba demanded that the US abandon Guantanamo under threat of force, that wouldn’t be an act of war?”

Good Point .

The US is in Guantanamo under a long term lease agreement. I am not familiar with the details of that agreement But IF the agreement states that either party can back out of the agreement (as our early Colonial agreement did) , then the US should remove it’s self if requested. Fort Sumter was blocking the port of a declared independent country. The Federal Government had plenty of opportunity to remove the threat peacefully but Lincoln wanted war. SC foolishly played into his hand and gave him the war Lincoln wanted .