Terrorist, had to be a lib writer that minced words.
Charleston seems united (that is their next nut to crack).
The rest of the useless idiots on social media have no clue. So props to the Devil I guess.
Thoughtful, well written, cogent, on point.
We need to all stand up and fight back against the nonsense going on out there. The left wants to control all speech and all thought. It is they who are the racists
One of my ancestors, Benjamin Thomas, was a black Confederate cook, and I do not want to turn my back on his service to the South.
my ancestors were cooks to Confederate slaveowners. They were called house negroes. Didn’t get paid either. They weren’t servants to the South. They were slaves who didn’t know they were free until around 1867.
If this guy wants to support the Confederate flag, ok, but hope he knows the Confederate Constitution supported slavery.
Many black people have a slave heritage. It is one of sadness, but they weren’t the only ones brought to America as slaves and indentured servants and they were not the only ones to experience hardships. And many have overcome their slave heritage and hardships to become productive members and leaders in our society. I believe today’s descendants have been afforded equal justice and more opportunities than most to succeed in America.
I’ve often wondered where would their descendants would be today if their ancestors had not been captured and brought to America as slaves. Would they still be living in Africa and would they want to immigrate to America for it’s better life and opportunities? Or would they have remained in Africa and prospered as Africans? They should ponder these questions before blaming America for their condition.
That statement is BS. I strongly reject this idea that whites are evil. The implication in this statement is that 'racism' is a one way street.
Has H. K. Edgerton weighed in on this? He was the black defender of Southern and Confederate history who walked, in full CSA uniform carrying the battle flag, from his home in North Carolina to Washington, DC.
Sounds good, but I still don’t think trying to defend the rebel battle flag is a winning issue. Instead, why not get the actual, historical flag of the confederacy? The battle flag is the DEMONCRAT flag!
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Thanks for posting this.
It is the Democrat Party that has this heritage of hate. No Republican EVER held slaves - ONLY DEMOCRATS. The Democrat Party has NEVER apologized for slavery! If we are going to ban anything meaningful because of slavery - BAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY !!!
My family came to this country from Scotland in the 1700’s prior to the Revolutionary War. My ancestor fought with Washington. None of my family was ever rich enough or wanted to own slaves. Most Southerners didn’t. The only people in the South that could own slaves were the rich plantation owners and politicians.
When I was little I remember talking to my great-grandfather about the Civil War. He was born in 1865 and had memories told to him by his father. None of my family would have ever fought in that war until the Yankees burned their farms and the farms of other Southerners just for being Southerners. They were poor farmers that only had enough land to grow food for themselves. This happened all over the South. This “Northern Aggression” is what made so many young men join the fight, not slavery. To me, the Confederate flag stands for all of the innocent people that died in that war and that is most of them because it was the poor people that ended up fighting for their lives and their culture. Owning slaves was not their priority; staying alive and protecting their homes and culture was.
The North had a lot more reasons for crushing the South than slaves. That war never should have happened. Slavery should have never happened but it did. Slavery could have been abolished without that war. Slavery was the excuse. The Federal government was doing the same thing then that it is doing now. It’s about control and money.
The South in 1863 wasn’t willing to be attacked by the government anymore than the colonies were willing to be attacked by England. I worry about my precious South and our culture. I detest the racists and hate groups like the KKK and Skinheads that have hijacked that flag for their hateful purposes.