"You don't like my name?"
Posted on 08/24/2017 2:55:44 PM PDT by Positive
I feel for the poor souls who suffer so profoundly when they find themselves in vicinity of monuments dedicated to Southerners who participated in the War Between the States.
It seems however that not enough is being done to assuage their suffering.
A couple of examples of what more can be done come to mind. The fine University in Virginia named Washington and Lee (actually named after the Father of our Country and the Commander of Confederate States of America's Army)should obviously be renamed.
A much bigger problem is Arlington National Cemetery, which was the front yard of General Lee's estate. Should we move the remains of all of our national heroes? Or should we continue to be defiled by being laid to rest in the land of such a horrible villain?
Finally,what about Congress critter Sheila Jackson Lee? Stone Wall Jackson was a great hero of the Confederates and of Lee we all know. Perhaps she should start running for re-election in her Houston district as Rep. Sheila?
So much to do to protect the sensitivities of the pathetics and so much time...heck it's only been 150 odd years, we may have years more to wash our history.
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Think things are bad now? Wait till these idiots find out that Confederate Statues are killing 10-15 black people in a typical Chicago weekend.
Oh, wait....
Shirley wish we’d have picked our own damned cotton . . .
blacks will be satisfied when they can hold white people in chattel slavery for 250 years. that would be a “good start.”
Of all the world’s slave owners, black slaves were treated best by whites.
Confederate soldiers were considered American veterans after the War between the States.
Everyone with the name Lee, first or last, must change their names immediately.
"You don't like my name?"
That does it - I’m only drinking out of Dixie Cups.
to assuage their suffering.
Rename all roads, streets and such with the name black road, black drive and such. Do not use numbers for streets as that is prejudicial and causes suffering. Colors could be used to name streets except white. Streets may not be named after people as some would cause suffering and some would be to prideful and too much of a show off. White road marking would needs be removed. This is just a start./s
Great thread. Unfortunately indicative of the next generation and what “we” the present generation parents and teachers have produced. Noisy morons. I’m quite sure there are many more silent Patriots lurking in the weeds (no pun intended) than the rather noisy morons of various colors and ideologies who have for a time captured the media’s attention.
Do we remove all monuments and writings related to the signers and ratifiers of the constitution?
After all they...
1. Allowed slavery to legally exist.
2. Counted slaves as 3/5 of a person in the census, thus codifying the inferior status of slaves.
So take that Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( BTW what was up with Rhode Island having plantation in it’s legal name).
Of course they joined Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in legalizing slavery in America.
( BTW Georgia under Oglethorpe as founded outlawed slavery in it’s original charter, the only state to do so, It was amended later to allow slavery so large landowners could compete with the South Carolina in rice production)
You gotta love the facts of history.
Great idea bro. How about Lakeisha Way, Dejaunte Road, Ferlisha Court? Is that a good start? /s
I don't know Shirley or what she wishes...
But in the late 50's, I was surely one of the few "white" boys picking cotton for 3 cents a pound (cotton isn't very heavy} to earn spending money. At least on the farm where I did it in Southwest Louisiana.
Regarding your point #2: The counting of the slaves as 3/5 of a person was a strategy by the Northern Abolitionists to reduce the population of the slavery states so slavery states would have fewer members of congress.
As I'm sure you know, members of the House of Representatives are allocated by the population of the states, not the number of voters in a state.
Using that as an example of considering slaves as inferior is inaccurate, since slaves could not vote or influence the election of members of the House of Representatives. If the slave had been fully counted the slavery states would have had more representatives and thus more influence prior to the secession.
I am aware of the compromise reached on slaves being counted at a reduced population for congress. Once again the non slave states pushed through the idea that slaves weren’t true citizens and as such were not counted fully for representation in congress. Slaves were deemed inferior to citizens. And codified into the basic governing document of the country. At the request of the non slave states. Which now act sanctimonious about slavery, after all they did nothing to support slavery, except make it legal of course. Holier than thou Batman.
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