[DiogenesLamp]

At the time of the American Revolution, and indeed, during the ratification of the US Constitution, all the Northern states were also slave states...

But we never hear about how those vile slave states overthrew their lawful government in preference for one of their own. For some reason, a lot of people just don't notice the hypocrisy involved.

[manc]

How about the US flag flying over slave ships.
Flying over slavery.
Flying over the west when we went and killed Indians, raped them, robbed them, and took their land away from them.

The battle flag flew on battlefields and never flew as a Govt Confederacy flag and yet these people ignore all the facts due to their ignorance or hypocrisy.

Using this shooting to promote their agenda shows how disgusting and sick these twisted people are in the media and the Govt.

[iowamark]

From an American point of view, we were justified in declaring our independence from George III. From an American Constitutional point of view, the Confederate declarations of secession from the United States were unconstitutional.

There is no hypocrisy from the American point of view. Only if one places human slavery above the stated ideals of 1776 does this become an issue.

[Ready4Freddy]

New Jersey had blacks who were freed only by the ratification of the 13th Amendment in Dec, 1865.

[mac_truck]

At the time of the American Revolution, and indeed, during the ratification of the US Constitution, all the Northern states were also slave states...

Vermont was never a slave state...and they made that fact quite clear when they declared independence from Britain in 1777.