Black Lives Matter Activists Float Criminalization of Confederate Imagery

www.lifezette.com ^ | 08-17-2017 | by Edmund Kozak

[Verginius Rufus]

Although the main purpose behind all of this is the Left's grasp for power by dividing people against each other (divide et impera), there is also a lot of virtue-signaling going on. Of course non-whites are automatically virtuous (unless Asians) and whites are automatically presumed to be racists unless they make a big show of supporting BLM and similar groups. The media plays its part by making a big deal out of insignificant nobodies like David Duke and this group in Charlottesville nobody had ever heard of before.

The underlying premise is that Southern whites in the 1860s were uniquely bad. In fact racism as we now call it (the word wasn't invented until later) was just as prevalent in the North. Lincoln had to make the war a war to reunite the Union--if he had made it a war to end slavery at the outset the North would have failed. Tocqueville in Democracy in America (1830s) thought racial prejudice was more intense in regions where slavery had been abolished than in regions where it still existed.

[Red Badger]

[bert]

BLM is offensive and must be destroyed. BLM is a racist organization with members unfit to breathe American Air

[BlueLancer]

"Plant a confederate flag on the moon and give them a million years to fetch it down."

[BlueLancer]

[Kickass Conservative]

These are the same People who believe the Civil War began simply because of Slavery.

It evolved to include abolishing Slavery.

President Lincoln wanted to Free the Slaves, and proposed sending them home to Africa.

[Architect of Avalon]

The ban will presumably include this:

https://youtu.be/Y85Rw6RtDyk?t=29

[Architect of Avalon]

Please post a link to that proposal by Lincoln.

[junta]

HULK SMASH COMMIES

[Kickass Conservative]

I’ve read it here numerous times.

You never heard that before?

Here is a quick Google link. You’re welcome.

http://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation

[Architect of Avalon]

Thanks.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

These are the same People who believe the Civil War began simply because of Slavery.

“We were not fighting for the perpetuation of slavery, but for the principle of States Rights and Free Trade, and in defense of our homes which were being ruthlessly invaded.” —Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Confederate soldier and sculptor

Let’s not forget Lincoln was elected without a single vote in the South, as he was not on the ballot.
It would be like going to the polls, casting a vote for Trump or Hillary and finding some nobody you ever heard of was suddenly President.

[Prov1322]

Since BLM is a terrorist organization, every BLM wall mural or billboard, etc. that has been painted in our wonderful areas of urban blight must be painted over or sand blasted away...NOW.

I am offended by BLM and any record of their existence must be removed from public view...NOW.

[Verginius Rufus]

Don't tell Sheila Jackson Lee, but Neil Armstrong actually left a Confederate battle flag on Mars.

Suppressed by the government and the complicit media, of course.

[Verginius Rufus]

C-SPAN-3 was replaying a talk this morning by Michael Neiberg, who is mainly a WWI specialist, but he was talking about total war and at times was talking about the US Civil War as well as WWI. He cited a study by another scholar of soldiers’ letters in the Civil War. It seems that Texas soldiers writing home never said anything about slavery until 1864—until then it didn’t enter their minds that it might disappear as a result of the war.

[Verginius Rufus]

Well, Southerners in 1860 knew about Abraham Lincoln before the election. Stephen Douglas, after he realized he had no chance to win, went to the South to implore people not to secede if Lincoln won. There were 11 states where the Republican Party was not on the ballot. I believe there were some votes for Lincoln in the other slave states, but a very small number.

Because of the electoral college, Lincoln would have won even if all the votes for his 3 opponents had been combined for just one man--he had just enough support in enough Northern states for an electoral college victory even though he only had 39% of the popular vote. Of course none of the others had as much as 39%.

[wardaddy]

Plenty of freepers would agree