[Plumberman27]

See a white guy that is not being praised by the race police! Here is guy that is a hero and he should be getting holiday by all these black people that talk about who's live matter. A white man fighting for freedom for the black slaves but we will never hear the minorities say a word about him. I think you all get my point here.

[Lee'sGhost]

I understand your point...but it is based on a false history. Union soldiers did not fight the war to “fee the slaves.” They fought the war to preserve the union, if we are to believe Lincoln. It is an important distinction. War was never declared and the reasons given for fighting the Confederacy revolved around preserving the union. Freeing slaves did not become part of the narrative until the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves only in the Confederacy.

All that said, yes, blacks in the U.S. would not have the freedom they have now were it not for white people. Blacks should be erecting monuments to white people...not killing them or trying to paint the entire race with a brush made by rare instances of police killing blacks without cause.

[chit*chat]

The union got a poor ROI, chronic complainers who really believe that being free means never working.

[chit*chat]

The union got a poor ROI, chronic complainers who really believe that being free means never working.