Posted on 04/30/2017 9:49:31 PM PDT by pboyington
The War against the Confederacy is a War against America.
The War against the Confederacy is a war on American history.
The War against the Confederacy is a war against all of us and a war on Americas institutions.
The War against the Confederacy is being waged by militant leftists, big government lackeys, aggrieved snowflakes and the hate America crowd.
Since a psychotic young man, who owned a Confederate flag, killed nine parishioners at a black church in South Carolina in June of 2015, the radical left, big government crowd in this country is doing something theyve wanted to do since 1861, completely eradicate the Confederacy and every last vestige of its history.
For two years, the nation has watched as Confederate flags have been ripped down from city halls and state capitol buildings and have been banned from selling on Amazon, although one may freely purchase a Nazi, Soviet, Italian Fascist or a North Korean flag on the website. The harmless TV show, the Dukes of Hazzard was permanently cancelled by TV Land, even though it is one of the most popular shows in TV history. The reason being that the main characters drove a car named the General Lee that had a Rebel flag on the roof.
Yeah, those Duke Boys were some real racists.
It would be laughable if it wasnt true. But, this is America in 2017, where cultural Marxists are running wild.
In every corner of the New South, the history of the Old South is being destroyed to placate the wishes of people who are motivated by the 21st Century version of fascism known as political correctness.
There is not a week that goes by now without seeing a news report concerning a Confederate monument that has been vandalized or is being torn down, in scenes that mimic the actions of ISIS in the Middle East or the SA in Nazi Germany. Statues of General Robert E. Lee are being carted off feet first, from Virginia to Texas, as if he was a deposed despot, instead of the most beloved general in American history.
In fact, last week in New Orleans, city officials began removing Confederate monuments that include statues of Lee, General P.T. Beauregard and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
There is a dangerous trend infesting this country like malignant cancer cells. Anyone on the left who feels triggered or psychologically injured by a book, a speaker, a statue, a monument, a flag or a song, can claim some kind of special candyass status and demand that the speaker or in the case of the Confederacy, the flags, the statues and the monuments are destroyed.
You cant eradicate history simply by removing statues, but that wont stop the radical left.
Of course the most common argument for removing symbols of the Confederacy is that the symbols represent racism.
Is the Confederate flag racist? If it is in the hands of members of the KKK who are waving it, yes.
But, what about the person from North Carolina, for example, whose great, great grandfather served in the Army of Northern Virginia? Do they see that flag as a symbol of racism, or as the symbol of military history, or American history? I would assume the latter.
And, who has the right to tell them how to interpret history? When others order you to remove symbols of history, or to think a certain way that is simply fascism; nothing more and nothing less.
Still others would say that Robert E. Lee was a racist because he fought for the Confederacy. But, Lee himself never purchased or owned any slaves. He did inherit slaves from his father in law, George Custis. Some of the slaves were freed in 1857 and the rest in 1862. In fact if you had asked him, he would have told you he was opposed to slavery and that he fought the Civil War because his home state, Virginia, had been invaded by the Yankees.
What many of the wailing little fascists in America dont know is that General Ulysses S. Grant, the man who prosecuted the war against Lee, the man whom Lee surrendered to in 1865, owned a slave named William Jones, whom he freed in 1859. In fact, Grants wife, Julia had four slaves, although they may have officially belonged to her father.
One would think the snowflakes and the liberal whining mayors would be demanding a removal of all Grant statues across the nation.
But, logic has never been a factor in the liberal thought process.
Do the liberal mayors, the PC governors and the little vandals of America know that only six percent of the soldiers fighting for the Confederacy actually owned any slaves?
If asked, Confederate soldiers would have said they were fighting because the North had invaded their land, or they were fighting against big government and the right to be left alone. Big government vs. small government; sounds familiar doesnt it? Its almost like it never really got resolved. Very few men were fighting to protect slavery, or the profits of King Cotton.
If asked, most soldiers in the Union Army would have said they were fighting to save the union. Except for abolitionists wearing blue, a majority werent fighting to free the slaves.
Sounds a little racist to me
And, what about President Lincoln?
In 1861, Lincoln supported the original 13th Amendment or the Corwin Amendment. The Corwin Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would shield domestic institutions of the states (which in 1861 included slavery) from the constitutional amendment process and from abolition or interference by Congress. It was passed by the 36th Congress on March 2, 1861, and submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. Senator William H. Seward of New York introduced the amendment in the Senate and Representative Thomas Corwin of Ohio introduced it in the House of Representatives. It was one of several measures considered by Congress in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to attract the seceding states back into the Union and in an attempt to entice border slave states to stay.
The official text of the amendment reads: No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
President Lincoln, in his first inaugural address on March 4, said of the Corwin Amendment:
I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitutionwhich amendment, however, I have not seenhas passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Hmm Sounds a little racist to me. Strangely, Steven Spielberg deleted any mention of the Corwin Amendment in his film, Lincoln. What a surprise.
Before the amendment could be ratified by all states, war broke out. But, the following states did ratify it: Kentucky, Ohio, Rhode Island, Illinois and Maryland.
Lincoln was a realist who would have done just about anything to save the Union, including tossing the constitution out the window, which he frequently did. Emancipation was a political legerdemain, to distract the nation from the series of Union Army defeats in the Eastern Theater and a litany of incompetent Union Army commanders. Lincoln needed the abolitionists behind him and something to rally the North; hence, the Emancipation Proclamation. Two years after emancipation, Lincoln was concocting ways for the black population to be relocated to British Colonies in the Caribbean before he was assassinated.
Whoaa
Dirty little secret lefties, what if Lincoln was more of a racist than Lee?
Oh my God!
I bet your Marxist professor didnt tell you that.
The victors wrote the history and sold the snake oil that they were the holy saviors defeating those evil slaver holders, even though almost all of the men they fought never owned a slave in their whole lives.
To compensate for their incompetence on the battlefield, the North developed the holier than thou attitude. Lee may have run rings around the Army of the Potomac, but so what, he was evil and so was Jackson, Stuart, Longstreet, the entire Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederacy. Also included in the group of white nationalist racists were George Pattons Confederate grandfather who was killed in 1864, Chesty Pullers Confederate grandfather who was killed in 1863 and Woodrow Wilsons father who was a CSA chaplain.
Combine a 150 year arrogant attitude with modern day political correctness and you have the current War against the Confederacy.
Dont think for a moment that it will stop with Lee and Davis. There is no end to the militant fascism raging among left wing snowflakes.
Those who come for Lee today, will come for Lincoln tomorrow.
Soon, they will be demanding that statues of Jefferson, Washington and Andrew Jackson are destroyed. In fact Jackson has been run off the $20 bill to be replaced by Harriet Tubman.
After they are finished with them, they will go after Custer, Grant, Wyatt Earp, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR; after all he imprisoned the Japanese during WWII. When theyre done with FDR, theyll come for Ike and Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Dont think it will just be flags and statues. Next, there will be book burnings and destruction of private property belonging to people deemed enemies of the state.
It wont stop until Americans put their feet down and say enough is enough. Frankly these people who try and tell us how to interpret our own history are nothing more than tyrants.
The War against the Confederacy is a war on freedom itself.
N.B. Im not a Southerner. Im from Northern Illinois and my relatives fought for the Union. In fact, my great, great, great uncle who served in the 2nd Indiana Cavalry, was captured during McCooks Raid on Atlanta on July 30, 1864 and spent the rest of the war in Andersonville Prison.
He survived. But, it looks like American history wont.
He forgot that idiot Halley, ie bend over Rinos
The South is a nation with its own views. Granted it is a flag the US fought against but a nation with diverse opinions is not
racist, an ideology can be racist, ie democrats
The one making
war on the confederate flag in name
of racism
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bigots
Confederacy describes a party instructions on organizing a country but also points to a nation itself. It is the least doctrinal and ideological of planks, ie one in respect of the various views within the confederacy.
The United States was originally a confederacy - The Articles of Confederation preceded the Constitution of 1787.
Evil is running America.
You don’t find the situation ironic, like Hitler almost certainly having Jewish ancestry?
I like to think of the results being that the Confederacy lost but the South won by the defeat of the CSA. One of my strongest beliefs is that the Confederacy and the South were and are two different things and the understanding of the conflict is clearer when the battle is seen as Union versus Confederacy rather than North versus South.
The Abe Lincoln in school history books is a myth.
Considering the percentage of our total population the blacks occupy in this country, I remain amazed we as the people who vote have put up with this. Erasing history is to repeat it...is that what we want to do and just how do the blacks think they will do that? I wonder how many white v blacks think tearing down those statues will “fix” anything. It is like the Japanese thinking if they don’t talk about it, don’t write about it, the memory of American citizens and their children being made POWs during WWII will disappear? Hey, maybe it is all about reparations? Let’s not go there as every single person in the US is related to an immigrant..even NAs (Native Americans) whose ancestors came over the land bridge of the Bering Sea.
“When theyre done with Lee, theyll move to Reagan. Mark my words”
No, they will move to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc. Then to the Constitution.
“One would think the snowflakes and the liberal whining mayors would be demanding a removal of all Grant statues across the nation.”
Give them time. Most of the snowflakes supporting the statue removals are ignorant of the facts. When somebody in their movement begins beating the drum about US Grant’s having owned slaves, then we move to Phase 2 of the Great US Historical Re-Write.
“(flame me)”
You are uncommonly stupid, and you have no idea with whom you are dealing on the left.
You can’t just post and claim anyone who doesn’t wish to bury history or who wishes to honor Confederate figures (who are and were as American as you) is somehow racist.
You fail to appreciate what is happening before your eyes.
You like many idiots who pontificate on the subject think that the South is still somehow not as American as pecan pie and that we should take orders as if we aren’t Americans.
I don’t believe that confederate monuments should be removed because of racism. They should be removed because the confederacy was a rebellion against a constitutionally elected government that attempted to destroy our great republic. If the newly freed African-Americans had not had their voting and other rights suppressed by their states most of these monuments would never had gone up.
Nonsensical analysis.
Clearly the conflict was the Lincoln cabal, its military, and Northern state militias moving South and firing on the people.
Your assertion is not only sophomoric but right out of a government school textbook.
There’s a spiritual war going on in this nation and it’s being fought at every level.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-is-not-representative-of-country-2014-7
I don't think it was Lincoln, his cabal or the Northern state militias who fired the first shots at Ft. Sumter. And the large numbers of southerners who served in the Union army should cast doubt on the framing of the Civil War as a war of North versus South.
No, it was a bunch of southern states having a hissy fit because someone they didn’t like got elected. They had tried to bully the rest of the states in the election of 1856 by threatening to secede if the republicans won the presidential election. They threatened again in the 1860 election, but the northern and western states were having none of it.
Amen.
The Confederate flag is an inanimate object and cannot be, in and of itself, racist. Or patriotic for that matter. It’s what people do with it that makes it one or the other.
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