Posted on 06/25/2015 10:18:14 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Since we are cleansing America of everything Confederate lets start with the Confederacys successors: The Democrat Party.
The Civil War was fought over slavery. Only duplicitous liberal apologists say otherwise and their presentations are not very convincing. The Civil War saw Union soldiers who were Republicans fighting and giving their lives to free the slaves held by Southern Democrats.
During the War the Democrat Party in the North did everything it could to undermine the Union cause and committed countless acts of treason in order to keep Black people in chains. The Democrat mayor of New York City even tried to get his City Counsel to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
When the war was over the Democrats did everything they possibly could to avoid giving the newly freed slaves the civil rights won for them with the blood of 18 year old farm boys from Pennsylvania, New York, Maine and the rest of the Northern states.
When their efforts to stop their freed slaves failed in Congress the Democrats formed the Klu Klux Klan and terrorized them out of voting.
When the Democrats got back control of the South from the gutless Republicans in 1876, they immediately started passing what became known as the Jim Crow Laws to put Blacks back in chains. The Democrats passed racial purity laws about who was Black that were stricter than the Nazis rules about who was Jewish.
The election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson, brought about by the greed and arrogance of Theodore Roosevelt, gave us a man who had a private screening of Birth of a Nation (the most racist movie in history), in the White House. The writers and producers were his friends. Democrat Wilson was the one who introduced segregation...
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I can think of about a dozen Confederate supporters here on Free Republic that he just called duplicitous liberal apologists.
Still here. How does it feel to be called a “duplicitous liberal apologist”?
In this regard the coach is a ignoramus. Nobody associates today’s Democrat Party with the one from the mid 19th century. The cookie cutter “the war was over slavery” is a sign of very shallow thinking in this regard, something you must be keenly aware of and demonstrate this type of brainwashes stupidity of thought on a daily basis.
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