Posted on 01/20/2016 5:03:47 AM PST by Kaslin
Last July, Anthony Hervey, an outspoken black advocate for the Confederate flag, was killed in a car crash. Arlene Barnum, a surviving passenger in the vehicle, told authorities and the media that they had been forced off the road by a carload of "angry young black men" after Hervey, while wearing his Confederate kepi, stopped at a convenience store en route to his home in Oxford, Mississippi. His death was in no small part caused by the gross level of ignorance, organized deceit and anger about the War of 1861. Much of the ignorance stems from the fact that most Americans believe the war was initiated to free slaves, when in truth, freeing slaves was little more than an afterthought. I want to lay out a few quotations and ask what you make of them.
During the "Civil War," ex-slave Frederick Douglass observed, "There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels" (Douglass' Monthly, September 1861).
"For more than two years, negroes had been extensively employed in belligerent operations by the Confederacy. They had been embodied and drilled as Rebel soldiers, and had paraded with White troops at a time when this would not have been tolerated in the armies of the Union." (Horace Greeley, in his book, "The American Conflict").
"Over 3,000 negroes must be included in this number (of Confederate troops). These were clad in all kinds of uniforms, not only in cast-off or captured United States uniforms, but in coats with Southern buttons, State buttons, etc. These were shabby, but not shabbier or seedier than those worn by white men in rebel ranks. Most of the negroes had arms, rifles, muskets, sabres, bowie-knives, dirks, etc. They were supplied, in many instances, with knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc., and were manifestly an integral portion of the Southern Confederacy Army. They were seen riding on horses and mules, driving wagons, riding on caissons, in ambulances, with the staff of Generals, and promiscuously mixed up with all the rebel horde" (report by Dr. Lewis H. Steiner, chief inspector of the U.S. Sanitary Commission).
In April 1861, a Petersburg, Virginia, newspaper proposed "three cheers for the patriotic free Negroes of Lynchburg" after 70 blacks offered "to act in whatever capacity" had been "assigned to them" in defense of Virginia.
Those are but a few examples of the important role that blacks served as soldiers, freemen and slaves on the side of the Confederacy. The flap over the Confederate flag is not quite so simple as the nation's race "experts" make it. They want us to believe the flag is a symbol of racism. Yes, racists have used the Confederate flag as their symbol, but racists have also marched behind the U.S. flag and have used the Bible. Would anyone suggest banning the U.S. flag from state buildings and references to the Bible?
Black civil rights activists, their white liberal supporters and historically ignorant Americans who attack the Confederate flag have committed a deep, despicable dishonor to our patriotic Southern black ancestors who marched, fought and died not to protect slavery but to protect their homeland from Northern aggression. They don't deserve the dishonor. Dr. Leonard Haynes, a black professor at Southern University, stated, "When you eliminate the black Confederate soldier, you've eliminated the history of the South."
Trust me I worked in Boston for some time and they bring this crap up all the time and it is they who are still fighting the war whilst putting down the south and southerners.
So much for their Boston lets all get along and tolerance.
This is a pretty decent thread but wait until the Army of Lincoln gets here.....
And THOUSANDS of them owned slaves
Forrest kept several slaves with him during the war. Once war started he told these slaves that if they stayed with him during the war, that he would give them their freedom after it was over. He also told them that if the Yankees won, that they would be free men also. Those slaves served Forrest throughout the war.
I have always noted that publicly professed attitudes in the North, Boston is my experience, are much more favorable to Negroes than in the South but personal relations in the South tend to be much less acrimonious. Southern white men who even use the old sterotype language are more apt to have personal Negro friends than Northerners do. That excepts the hard inner cores of the cities but the cities in the Southland are long term Democrat strongholds as they are in the North.
..It is a fact which the left and blacks ignore...
Another fact that the left ignores is that the majority of the souths Governors and State houses through the late 1960s were DEMOCRATS. They were directly responsible for maintaining the institutions of slavery and Jim Crow. And it was Republicans who broke the DEMOCRAT filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Yea I’m waiting.
I hear clanking and rattling in the distance, dust on the horizon.....
The Colonel, Lt.Colonel and the Majors were white, they appointed by the Governor. The company grade officers of the regiment were black. The 1st Louisiana Native Guards was disbanded in Feb 1862 after the Louisiana legislature in Jan 1862,past a law limiting militia service to white males. Once the Federal forces captured New Orleans about 10% of the 1st LA Native Guards enlisted in the Union Army.
Great point and a fact which will never be taught to kids today or the NAACP would mention.
Why republicans do not mention this is beyond me. They should get out there and tell blacks and the hateful left who was on for civil rights.
they are pinging each other and trying to get a grip of the facts. Poor souls LOL.
This one is going to get desperate and ugly real quick.
Ain’t it amazin’? My great grandfather was a confederate soldier, my father was born in ‘13 and as a boy he knew my great grandfather. My dad used to talk about gatherings of confederate veterans when he was a child, he would use the “n word” regularly and often but had he seen me mistreat a black person he would have been far more likely to kick my tail than if he saw me do the same thing to a white person. I never saw him be anything but kind and respectful to black people and my mother was the same.
If you were to homeschool your children you would not have to wast a lot of time correcting and negating the trash they get in government school. You could be teaching them real math and real English and real History and such. People who care for their kids as more than accessories don’t sentence them in public school.
Bttt
bump
They're just a part of the progressive's movement of infiltration, subversion and destruction of America's culture and society.
silent out there
They’re coming. They always do.
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