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 America’s 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 they’ve 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 wasn’t 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 can’t eradicate history simply by removing statues, but that won’t 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 don’t 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, Grant’s 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 doesn’t it? It’s 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 weren’t 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 Constitution—which amendment, however, I have not seen—has 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 didn’t 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 Patton’s Confederate grandfather who was killed in 1864, Chesty Puller’s Confederate grandfather who was killed in 1863 and Woodrow Wilson’s 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.
Don’t 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 they’re done with FDR, they’ll come for Ike and Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Don’t 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 won’t 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. I’m not a Southerner. I’m 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 McCook’s 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 won’t.
If not for myths then what would people around here have to talk about when it came to the threads about the Southern rebellion? Take this thread, for example. "Lee himself never purchased or owned any slaves." Lee most certainly did, and Douglas Southall Freeman details as much in his biography of Lee. "In fact if you had asked him, he would have told you he was opposed to slavery." Mildly opposed, perhaps. But as late as 1865 he was saying that slavery was the best situation for blacks in the Confederate States. "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." That's just nonsense. "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." As is that. "What if Lincoln was more of a racist than Lee?" Depends on how you would define it. If you define it by today's standards than everyone back then - Lee, Lincoln, Jackson, whomever - is a stone racist. If you define it by the standards of the times then Lincoln looks pretty good compared with his peers.
Most people don’t have enough fingers or toes to count all the factual errors the author alleges in his rant.
Isn't it interesting that our contemporary commies are acting just like Stalin in this respect. Give them power, and they'll emulate ol' Uncle Joe in *every* respect: gulags and summary executions included.
Some of this is OK, right on even, but the majority is nonsense reflecting disrespect for real history as opposed to pro-Confederate propaganda.
“That’s fine so long as they were not flying above the American flag.”
Of course. The “Stars & Bars” were flying alone in these cases.
And what is your point....that the first to fire was to blame?
Then, the Union troops at Ft. Barrancas take that honor.... a full three months before Sumter....January 8, 1861.
But if you want to focus on Ft. Sumter, the first shot was fired there by the Union Ship Harriet Lane, by Union Lieutenant Tompkins.
He was a part of the Lincoln Cabal military.
Great post. Eisenhower was from Kansas as well.
Union troops at Ft. Barrancas fired warning shots to deter thugs who were advancing upon the fort.
The Harriet Lane fired a warning shot against a ship closing on her at night while flying no colors.
The rebels fired upon Fort Sumter as an overt act of war against their own country.
"I think Ulysses S. Grant is vastly underrated as a man and as a general. I know people think this and that about his drinking habits, which I think have been exaggerated way out of line. The fact is, he never demanded more men or material from the war department, he took over an army that had a long history of retreating and losing. That army had no confidence in their fighting ability and Grant came in as a real outsider. He had so many disadvantages going into the 1864 campaign, now 100 years ago. But he met every test and rose to the occasion unlike I’ve ever seen in American history. He was a very tough yet very fair man and a great soldier. He’s not been given his due...Grant devised a strategy to end the war. He alone had the determination, foresight, and wisdom to do it. It was lucky that President Lincoln didn’t interfere or attempt to control Grant’s strategic line of thinking. Lincoln wisely left the war to Grant, at least in the concluding moves after he came east. Grant is very undervalued today, which is a shame, because he was one of the greatest American generals, if not the greatest."
Born in Texas actually, and grew up in Kansas. So both sides theoretically can lay claim to him.
Flags of the Confederate States of America (clockwise from left):
1) Stars and Bars (National Flag #1)
2) Stainless Banner (National Flag #2)
3) Bloodstained Banner (National Flag #3)
4) Bonnie Blue Flag (Long history, never an official CSA flag)
5) Battle Flag (Or would be, if it were square. Rectangular flag was a Naval Jack).
I know that Southerners are among the most patriotic of Americans.
Don't you love it when people idiotically retroject contemporary political issues and debates back into past centuries? The fact that J.C. Calhoun or Jefferson Davis were Democrats in the 19th century doesn't mean that their policies had anything in common with Obama's, because what defined Democrats (Democratic Republicans early in their history) and Republicans (Federalists and Whigs earlier in their history) weren't the issues the define the parties today. In fact, the defining issue separating Democrats from Republicans during most of the 19th Century was States' Rights (Democrats) vs. a stronger Federal Government (Republicans).
Of course, the people who say "The Confederacy was evil because it was founded by Democrats" spout that line hoping that someone listening to them is stupid enough to believe that because Calhoun or Davis were "Democrats" they would have supported transgender bathrooms or social welfare programs for illegal immigrants today.
I’m not aware of Hitler having Jewish ancestry
But I do think he grew up resentful of Jews where he lived and saw that many were associated with the Mensheviks and Bolshies
Whom he detested
And he acted on that along with his nutty entourage to a degree rarely in recorded history
The confederate flag is not a flag against political correctness!!! When anyone does that, what everyone else sees is racism, then they tar anti-PC as a bunch of racists. WE ARE NOT. Well, at least most of us. Please leave the confederate flag at home.
And, yes, you might argue otherwise, but realize that 90% of the American people will and do make the association of the confederate flag and racism. Rightly or wrongly, and ignoring all the politics of the Civil War, you cannot ignore that the KKK, neo-Nazis, skinheads, and others have forever tarred the confederate flag as racist.
What's even more funny is the fact that some conservatives eagerly support taking down Confederate monuments just because Confederates were Democrats, even though the Democrat/Republican ideological split in the 19th century had nothing to do with today's, and in spite of the fact that cheering the removal of Confederate monuments puts them on the same side of the issue BlackLivesMatter thugs and other leftist riffraff.
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