Pitts: About the Confederate battle flag, remember this: Nazis have a heritage, too

The Salt Lake City Tribune ^ | 3 March 2008 | Leonard Pitts

[MrB]

That reminds me of the abortion issue -

“I’m morally opposed to slavery, but I wouldn’t force my morals on anyone else.”

[RedMonqey]

"Remind them that "heritage" is not a synonym for "good." After all, Nazis have a heritage, too."

Idiocy can't tell the difference between a political movemeent(and a short one at that) and a culture that took hundreds of years to from and continyues today.



And by the way, the Nazis highjacked German culture for their own insideous uses.

Anyone for banning Beer Gardens? Any one?

[Moose4]

In this case, actually, yes. I’m not happy about what it took to knock some sense into us—a war, twelve years of crippling Reconstruction, and then everything that happened in the 1950s and beyond. Maybe, given time, Jim Crow would’ve ended on its own. I’d like to think so.

}:-)4

[DFG]

After the war of southern treason (civil war), the Democrats formed the KKK and lynched blacks as well as anyone else that tried to vote Republican.

[Tallguy]

I wonder when, exactly, Lee had an opportunity to speak out against Slavery. Prior to the War, Lee was a senior serving officer in the US Army, and that would have put limits on what he could say about a LEGAL practice.

During the War he was obligated to win the war for the Confederacy. Any public statements that he made would have been counterproductive in that task even if they only took away time from his primary task.

[dinoparty]

“Not as much so as that statement.”

What the hell kind of argument is THAT? Care to give your reasons?

[dinoparty]

I think the burden of proof is on those who claim that Lee was morally opposed to slavery.

[ml/nj]

Time for you to take a deep breath

Stop me when I say something that isn't true.

ML/NJ

[Tallguy]

I think the burden of proof is on those who claim that Lee was morally opposed to slavery.

Fair enough...

[RedMonqey]

And flogging was a common punishment for theft too in many states.

[highball]

"And finally - Texas, not to be outdone, wrote its own declaration."

Texas should have simply renounced the 1845 Treaty and reclaimed its status as a Republic.

Should have, but Texas weren't interested in becoming a sovereign republic again. They just wanted to be part of a nation that allowed them to have slaves.

[xone]

‘The South is still an agrarian society. The whole life there is based on growing seasons, which you just can’t rush.’

No industry or life outside of NYC? EP=LLB? You need to get out more.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Aggressive invaders?

Who fired the first shots on Fort Sumter?????????

Which part of Yankkeeland is Fort Sumter in????????????

[ontap]

The integrated circuit was invented in Dallas Texas. No integrated circuit, no computer.

[RedMonqey]

Grant wasn’t a great General. But he knew how to win a battle by throwing countless men and machinery into a meat grinder until it was clogged and overwhelmed. Which is what helped won the war.

His companion in arms knew how to fight defenseless women ,children and old men

[Non-Sequitur]

How?

When he called up the troops to settle the Whiskey Rebellion.

[ChurtleDawg]

you don’t think chattel slavery robbed people of their humanity? what about the slave trade? selling children in public markets?

[mngran2]

Wow, commendable! You are the very first Southerner I have ever heard say that (and I lived in the South for eight years). I wish the rest of the country hadn’t had to invest all the lives, time, money and effort in straightening the South out either, but to the extent things are in order down there now, I’m glad it has done some good. Thanks for your comment.

[ChurtleDawg]

they did not have photography while the slave trade was still operating. That ended when Jefferson was President.

[Non-Sequitur]

It is worth mentioning that Robert E. Lee was morally opposed to slavery...

His opposition to slavery has been badly exaggerated.