Posted on 04/11/2010 11:18:54 AM PDT by trumandogz
OK, you got one reason out of eight.
Care to shoot for the other seven?
An interesting observation, given that Judah Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, was Jewish. More than 100 years would pas before the US got its first Jewish Secretary of State.
Irrespective of what the war was or wasn’t about. This isn’t about ‘terrorist’ or slavery this is about race. I’ll bet you Mr Martin nor CNN give a damn about white slaves, indentured servants, the fact that blacks, Indians and others owned slaves or that slavery existed for thousand of years and exist today. This is specifically about White Western culture and the destruction thereof. You can bet you rear end if this is allowed to become accepted doctrine that the founders and 95% of American history are next. In fact all of Western history must be destroyed in order to achiever what they are after. Of course people like Mr Martin have myopic vision. Wanna talk about terrorist? How about we be more up to date and talk about current day black Thugs?? I am sure he doesn’t want to go there.
Do you also despise the stay at home Confederates who likewise murdered and oppressed Southerners many months before Sherman even reached Georgia or is a Southerner murdered by a Confederate any less dead than one murdered by a Yankee?
Informed response. Thanks for posting.
“Irrespective of what the war was or wasn’t about. This isn’t about ‘terrorist’ or slavery this is about race.
I’ll bet you Mr Martin nor CNN give a damn about white slaves, indentured servants, the fact that blacks, Indians and others owned slaves or that slavery existed for thousand of years and exist today.
This is specifically about White Western culture and the destruction thereof. You can bet you rear end if this is allowed to become accepted doctrine that the founders and 95% of American history are next. In fact all of Western history must be destroyed in order to achiever what they are after. Of course people like Mr Martin have myopic vision.
Wanna talk about terrorist? How about we be more up to date and talk about current day black Thugs?? I am sure he doesn’t want to go there.”
Good post!
The CSA were separatists with de facto control over part of the territory they claimed, but were certainly not an independent nation. The rebels were not recognized by the US Government nor were they by any foreign state. The purpose of their rebellion was to create an independent state, but the rebellion was defeated.
They had other reasons that they sold to the men actually doing the fighting. And that’s what people like Roland Martin cannot understand. The cause for which the leaders rebelled, almost 100% slavery, was often not a big factor for the soldiers themselves, particularly for the poorer soldiers and those from the Upper South where slavery was not very prominent.
How about the slavemasters who raped and killed innocent women? Sherman's army committed war crimes, but they pale in comparison to the crimes of slavery perpetrated over a span of hundreds of years.
“No, but Sherman was a war criminal.”
I think Mr. Peabody bears the ultimate responsibility.
Unless you were there, you have the right to believe what you’ve read or been told and I have the same right...and we will always disagree on this.
Finally, someone lurches into the truth.
The Union General Shermam was an absolute terrorist burning an 80 mile wide path from Atlanta to Savanna as he took the war to the civilian population of Georga .
I’m not saying slavery wasn’t an important factor..it was a major part of the South’s Economy. However I don’t see it as the major cause of the Civil War. Focusing completely on Slavery on the cause of the civil war glosses over the rest of issues. But calling the Confederate Soldiers terrorists?? Dissent isn’t terrorism....Remember this when the Drive-By’s and the Regime start calling “Tea Partiers” Terrorists.........
Really? For wanting to inflict on CSA conditions so bad as to bring the War to a swift conclusion?
No, for attacking civilians.
How about the slavemasters who raped and killed innocent women? Sherman’s army committed war crimes, but they pale in comparison to the crimes of slavery perpetrated over a span of hundreds of years.
It wasn’t just the south that owned slaves during this span of several hundred years.
Sherman's March to the Sea was Nov/Dec. 1864, the war was all but over, officially ending in April '65 with Lee's surrender. Sherman was well aware of this fact, his intention was to inflict punishment and retribution on the civilian population of the Confederacy. Purposeful and intentional destruction of civilian population is a war crime.
How any self respecting person can defend Sherman's actions as 'justified' is to me at least, astounding.
“the opinions expressed are...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.”
BTTT. This isn’t just about ratings and dough, though. This is about driving out the GOP and TEA Party folks to support the Confederacy, so as to give aid and comfort to the DNC and Obamarx.
The question needs to be asked of all those who push this issue on the left (just as they did about the flag-burning issue): in an economy with nearly 17% of the American people out of work, haven’t you got better %#$@!%! things to do than talk about a war that ended 150 years ago?
“I despise the Confederacy”
You act as if it still exists, it does not. It is a part of American history. Confederates were (and their legacy is) as American as you and I.
You don’t get to despise part of America without despising all of America.
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