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To: papertyger

You actually have the hubris to believe you are more knowledgeable than the guy involved in the display?


My ancestors were slaves in the South. So I know some facts about how life was like under the Confederacy.

Why do so many who glorify the Confederate flag downplay the ugliness of slavery Southern states wanted to keep?


200 posted on 10/14/2013 1:43:59 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: RginTN

“Why do so many who glorify the Confederate flag downplay the ugliness of slavery Southern states wanted to keep?”

The abolition of slavery was not the motivation of the Union at the outset of the war, in fact, the Union was prepared to guarantee the institution of slavery in perpetuity via the Corwin Admendment.


206 posted on 10/14/2013 2:08:35 PM PDT by wfu_deacons
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To: RginTN
My ancestors were slaves in the South. So I know some facts about how life was like under the Confederacy.

Really? Have you ever seen someone muscling through the crowd at an accident saying "Let me through, my ancestor was a doctor?"

Why do so many who glorify the Confederate flag downplay the ugliness of slavery Southern states wanted to keep?

Why do people like you keep trying to tell them why they do so instead of asking them? Frankly, people like you are like a wife that expects to be allowed to screw the football team as compensation for her husband not being a virgin when they married.

You can justify it any way you like, but the fact is the North violated the Constitution the South signed up with, and as soon as someone like you can show proof that the North wasn't going to further violate that Constitution, I'll agree the South had no reason to fight.

207 posted on 10/14/2013 2:10:59 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: RginTN

so were my ancestors as were so many others on here but how far do you want to go back for ancestors being slaves?

There were black slave owners, Anthony JOhnson was a very harsh slave owners who basically got slavery legal in VA and oh he was black.

There were also slaves in the north and around the world and still is.

The stars and stripes put Indians into slavery , killed them raped them a d lets remember the buffalo soldiers who were black who helped to cleanse the Indians of their land.

Yet I see a biker group called buffalo soldiers riding about, shall they be deemed as racist?


228 posted on 10/14/2013 4:41:50 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: RginTN

so were my ancestors as were so many others on here but how far do you want to go back for ancestors being slaves?

There were black slave owners, Anthony JOhnson was a very harsh slave owners who basically got slavery legal in VA and oh he was black.

There were also slaves in the north and around the world and still is.

The stars and stripes put Indians into slavery , killed them raped them a d lets remember the buffalo soldiers who were black who helped to cleanse the Indians of their land.

Yet I see a biker group called buffalo soldiers riding about, shall they be deemed as racist?


229 posted on 10/14/2013 4:41:57 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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