Don't be too sure. There's a guy from Nebraska making a great living as a "Southern" comedian.
Posted on 04/02/2015 4:24:38 PM PDT by 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.”
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I hope that you got it all out of your system. Have yourself a peachy day ;’)
That’s it.
I live a few miles away from Appomattox. Reno would go into an attack of the vapors if he visited this area. On the way into the town, there are little shops with Confederate flags outside, or stickers in the window. A guy up the road from us flies one on a tall pole outside his house.
It's just like a Yankee not to figure out that "y'all" is plural, not singular...it's a contraction of "you all."
Not according to the men who started it.
So if Cuba demanded that the US abandon Guantanamo under threat of force, that wouldn’t be an act of war?
And Andrew Stephens said that slavery was the cornerstone on which the confederacy was created. But what did he know?
And John Mosby said, "The South went to war on account of Slavery." But what did he know?
The South went to war because it got fed up with the damm yankees.
It’s happening all over again
Bless your heart, that’s so kind of you to share ;’)
So. Your neighbor is not running for President and I doubt you’ll see any serious presidential candidate caught in a picture surrounded by confederate flags. Will never happen.
Anytime, sweetie.
Another nugget of learning for you-—”bless your heart”, which I know YOU mean a certain way, is not used ONLY in that way by Southern women. In fact, I’ve never heard it used insultingly, and I myself employ it affectionately.
If I need to insult, I can do much better than that.
You assume much - but hey - if it makes you feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel better ;’)
Not according to the men who started it.
Most of the men who fought the Civil War (both sides) never owned a slave was a slave.. and most didn’t even believe in slavery..
In the south few owned slaves.. or even indentured servants.. a form of slavery..
The North had indentured servants even after the war..
The North converted the US into a Democracy...
AND KILLED the Republic..
Democracy was, is, and will continue to be.. “Mob Rule by mobsters”..
As it is NOW... Fascism... masked as socialism..
Don't be too sure. There's a guy from Nebraska making a great living as a "Southern" comedian.
Who cares? You're the one hyperventilating over a flag. I rarely give it a thought.
But the southern economy was based on the plantation crops grown by slave labor.
The North had indentured servants even after the war..
Where?
The North converted the US into a Democracy... AND KILLED the Republic..
Those words, I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
Democracy was, is, and will continue to be.. “Mob Rule by mobsters”.. As it is NOW... Fascism... masked as socialism..
So let's ban all elections.
As a striking illustration of the selfish and debasing influences which slavery exercises over the hearts and minds of slaveholders themselves, we will here state the fact that, when we, the non-slaveholders, remonstrate against the continuance of such a manifest wrong and inhumanity--a system of usurpation and outrage so obviously detrimental to our interests--they fly into a terrible passion, exclaiming, among all sorts of horrible threats, which are not unfrequently executed, "It's none of your business!"--meaning to say thereby that their slaves do not annoy us, that slavery affects no one except the masters and their chattels personal, and that we should give ourselves no concern about it, whatever! To every man of common sense and honesty of purpose the preposterousness of this assumption is so evident, that any studied attempt to refute it would be a positive insult. Would it be none of our business, if they were to bring the small-pox into the neighborhood, and, with premeditated design, let "foul contagion spread?" Or, if they were to throw a pound of strychnine into a public spring, would that be none of our business? Were they to turn a pack of mad dogs loose on the community, would we be performing the part of good citizens by closing ourselves within doors for the space of nine days, saying nothing to anybody? Small-pox is a nuisance; strychnine is a nuisance; mad dogs are a nuisance; slavery is a nuisance; slaveholders are a nuisance, and so are slave-breeders; it is our business, nay, it is our imperative duty, to abate nuisances; we propose, therefore, with the exception of strychnine, which is the least of all these nuisances, to exterminate this catalogue from beginning to end.We mean precisely what our words express, when we say we believe thieves are, as a general rule, less amenable to the moral law than slaveholders; and here is the basis of our opinion: Ordinarily, thieves wait until we acquire a considerable amount of property, and then they steal a dispensable part of it; but they deprive no one of physical liberty, nor do they fetter the mind; slaveholders, on the contrary, by clinging to the most barbarous relic of the most barbarous age, bring disgrace on themselves, their neighbors, and their country, depreciate the value of their own and others' lands, degrade labor, discourage energy and progress, prevent non-slaveholders from accumulating wealth, curtail their natural rights and privileges, doom their children to ignorance, and all its attendant evils, rob the negroes of their freedom, throw a damper on every species of manual and intellectual enterprise, that is not projected under their own roofs and for their own advantage, and, by other means equally at variance with the principles of justice, though but an insignificant fractional part of the population, they constitute themselves the sole arbiters and legislators for the entire South. Not merely so; the thief rarely steals from more than one man out of an hundred; the slaveholder defrauds ninety and nine, and the hundredth does not escape him. Again, thieves steal trifles from rich men; slaveholders oppress poor men, and enact laws for the perpetuation of their poverty. Thieves practice deceit on the wise; slaveholders take advantage of the ignorant.
Do you people consider yourselves Americans or Confederates?
So let’s ban all elections.
and revolt
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