Posted on 07/08/2015 8:52:34 AM PDT by kathsua
It is unlikely that the Civil War amendments would have been proposed and ratified if Confederate leaders hadn’t precipitated the Civil War. The fact that the civil rights amendments were an inadvertent result of the Civil War doesn’t detract from the fact that the war resulted in ratification of constitutional amendments that outlawed slavery and would eventually guarantee all black Americans equal protection of the laws and the right to vote. Blacks should embrace the Confederate flag to show their gratitude for the benefits blacks received from the Civil War.
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So many people have concentrated on their woes both real and imagined that they have no more room to be glad about anything.
If something is misused, by all means we should be angry at the misuse. But “abusus non tollit usum.”
I’m sorry, but this is about as stupid as saying Jews should be grateful to Hitler because his actions played a role in the founding of Israel.
Really, the author of this article is a class A moron.
It wasn't.
Black people should thank the Confederates for starting the Civil War because it ended slavery.
I suppose that this makes perfect sense to the neo-Confederates.
That øbama is averse to the Confederate Battle Flag imparts to it a whole new modern meaning:
DEFIANCE!
Walter E. Williams has said (on Rush’s program) that he is better off today because his ancestors were brought here as slaves.
Without the Civil War, slavery would have continued at least for decades more. How could it have been ended? There were 15 slave states. To end slavery by constitutional amendment would require 2/3 vote in each house of Congress and ratification by 3/4 of the states. Even now there aren’t 60 states.
There is a lot of truth here.
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