The latest Civil War skirmish: Public school names

WVEC.com ^ | 12/20/03 | Steve Szkotak

[lentulusgracchus]

"The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially....."

It was true then, and it's true now. Or do you not count malaria, hemorrhagic fevers, social decay, political violence, and the presence of active slave-catchers?

In other words, leave things as they are and let God sort it out.

Your impatient tendentiousness is showing. Bobby Lee was right, and you can't stand it, so you have to "summarize" his better English with a dismissive remark. Fah.

[lentulusgracchus]

I'm unaware of any quote from any suthern leader that would indicate that they believed the black man was the equal of a white man in any way or entitled to the same rights.

Easy to say, when Lincoln himself flunks your little test.

Keep flailing, N-S. Your love of Red revisionism is its own advertisement.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Nice post, thanks.

[lentulusgracchus]

Thank you, suh.

[Non-Sequitur]

Easy to say, when Lincoln himself flunks your little test.

Nonsense.

"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man."

Taney didn't believe that the black man was entitled to any rights at all. Neither did Davis or any of the other southern leaders. Unless, of course, you have something that shows otherwise.

Your love of Red revisionism is its own advertisement.

This from someone who worships Jeff Davis and his socialist regime.

[Non-Sequitur]

Your impatient tendentiousness is showing. Bobby Lee was right, and you can't stand it, so you have to "summarize" his better English with a dismissive remark. Fah.

Bobby Lee, while he didn't own slaves himself, believed that the government had no right to dictate to those who did. The 21st Century equivilent to Bobby Lee's position would be something like my sister's, who claims that while she would never get an abortion herself she believes that it is not the governments right to dictate what a woman can do with her body. Most abortion opponents would consider my sister to be an abortion supporter. So too was Bobby Lee a slavery supporter. And you can't stand it.