[DiogenesLamp]

Lemme try it again, "A prominent "Black" conservative flatly stating that the war was not started to free the slaves........" Yup, still funny. "not started to free the slaves" That is rich!

Is that an attempt at some sort of rebuttal? Are you arguing that it was started to free the slaves?

[HandyDandy]

The funny part is that you are laboring under the misapprehension that the North started the War. It was the South that began the fighting! Of course the South didn’t start the war “to free the slaves”. That’s a real knee-slapper!