Did someone say racist?
Posted on 04/11/2010 11:18:54 AM PDT by trumandogz
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Robert E. Lee?
The greatest American general?
Was a terrorist?
No way.
That is equivalent to boy genius Jethro Bodine in the position of brain surgeon or double nought spy or Wolf Blitzer in the role of a Jeopardy contestant.
Hmmm. The old slavery canard. Glad I’m old enough to have been taught the states rights version.
If you do a keyword search for Civil War threads, you'll quickly find out that the smoke never clears on this board.
Well then we ain't too keen on you either, Colonel.
Mr Martin failed simple math....
Slavery under the Confederacy-1861-1865 (5 yrs)
Slavery under the U.S-1776-1865 (89 yrs)
5 is a more of a terrorist than 89?
NO. The Confederacy was a gov’t that wanted to split from the USA. War was declared. War is hell and both sides participated in the terrible war. Confederate soldiers were fighting in a declared war. The Civil War was about STATES RIGHTS not SLAVERY.... It is strange however for a state in the Union to be honoring a Confederate.....Hmmm
Wrong-headed maybe, but when considering the states still retained some sovereignty in 1860, many thought they were fighting for their "country".
Really? For wanting to inflict on CSA conditions so bad as to bring the War to a swift conclusion?
These people need to look up the word “anachronism” in the dictionary. YOU CANNOT DEMAND THAT PEOPLE WHO LIVED HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO BEHAVE ACCORDING TO YOUR STANDARDS.
“If you do a keyword search for Civil War threads, you’ll quickly find out that the smoke never clears on this board. “
Exactly!
But of course the opinions expressed are not those of Roland Martin there are contrived by Roland Martin to arouse a reaction, drive up his ratings, and ultimately line his pockets. The opinions expressed are naught but a cynical ploy, throwing bait to the boobs, as the practice was called during the Clinton administration.
Martin does not believe these things, he is laughing up his sleeve at us. This is a shameful but perfectly politically correct column for Martin to write. He knows he will provoke part of the people and he knows further that the louder the uproar the louder will he be applauded in the salons and circles inhabited by elitists like those who are running CNN into bankruptcy.
My opinion of Roland Martin cannot be expressed.
The Confederacy was established for the purpose of further enriching and empowering its leaders through the expansion of slavery and the continued exploitation of their poor white neighbors. I have no use for the political Confederacy, but the semi-educated rantings of Martin seem to indicate that he cannot differentiate between the loathsome purposes of the Dixie political elite and the often much different motivations of the often impoverished soldiers themselves.
Domestic terrorists? They wore uniforms and fought other uniformed soldiers. They were rebels and traitors to the United States of America, but not terrorists.
A better, more current question is “are United Mine Workers, the minions of now big guy Richard Trumka, terrorists?”
The answer is of course. They donned camo uniforms, miners, wives,sisters, mothers and children and using stolen company explosives blew up power substations. The blocked access to roads and transport. They damaged and destroyed private vehicles of their betters. They occupied company property, some with guns. they recruited Roman Catholic nuns to use their Winebago mobile clinics to drive in the middle of roads and slow or stop coal trucks.
They harassed those who went to work with telephone threats and threatened their families while they were at work.
The UMWA scum are real terrorists
I despise the damn Yankees who raped and killed innocent women and the senseless burning and destroying of property as they marched through the South.
No way, indeed! Lee was not only one of the greatest soldiers byt one of the greatest gentlemen that this nation ever produced.
If the Civil War was not about slavery, why is it that the Constitution of the Confederate States of America stated:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
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