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Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday (Hurl)
New Republic ^ | April 5, 2015 | Brian Beutler

Posted on 04/06/2015 11:47:50 AM PDT by C19fan

In a speech one month ago, the first black president of the United States challenged millions of white Americans to resist the convenient allure of overlooking the country’s blemished moral record. It was a dual challenge, actually—first to the classical understanding of American exceptionalism, but also to America’s persistent critics, who abjure the concept of exceptionalism altogether.

“What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this?” President Barack Obama said. “What greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?”

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: anniversary; civil; confederacy; dixie; war
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To: rockrr

The racist moniker sticks to everyone in the mid 19th century evenly; with very few exception. Lincoln NOT being one of the exceptions.


121 posted on 04/08/2015 6:45:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DoodleDawg; RFEngineer
Starting with the civil war, the primacy of the federal government over powers reserved for the states was cemented.

You asked: For example?

Your comment says a lot about the sorry state of the republic. It is depressing that Freeper would ask such a question question.....

122 posted on 04/08/2015 6:49:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Your comment says a lot about the sorry state of the republic. It is depressing that Freeper would ask such a question question.....

But it's not surprising that nobody can answer it.

123 posted on 04/08/2015 7:08:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

--Madison

What Madison said is a sick joke now.

To start your education first realize at the beginning the states had more power than the Federal. Now everything is upside down.

Read everything you can about the anti-federalists

It is well worth your time, nobody is going to educate you, you have to do it yourself.

124 posted on 04/08/2015 7:29:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Do you have any conception of how stupid you sound? That’s EXACTLY the same argument that the left is handing out right now. You haven’t gone leftist on us have you?!

The truth is that racial attitudes in the mid-1800’s weren’t very charitable towards blacks. Most saw them as inferior; many saw them as sub-human. Lincoln was mainstream in his attitudes towards blacks and definitely not hidebound.

To call him “racist” - as in holding an opinion more extreme than the mainstream thinking of the times is simply untrue.


125 posted on 04/08/2015 8:58:07 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

I think we agree about this.


126 posted on 04/08/2015 9:02:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Lincoln freed the slaves.

Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.

127 posted on 04/08/2015 11:42:16 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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