Posted on 12/21/2020 5:18:44 AM PST by Alter Kaker
Wrong.
The legislation only requires them to be treated “the same as” U.S. armed forces veterans, it does not proclaim them U.S. armed forces veterans.
The head stones provided for Confederate veterans are not the same as the head stones provided to real U.S. armed forces veterans.
Wrong.
The legislation only requires them to be treated “the same as” U.S. armed forces veterans, it does not proclaim them U.S. armed forces veterans.
The head stones provided for Confederate veterans are not the same as the head stones provided to real U.S. armed forces veterans.
I’m curious under what authority they removed property that belongs to the federal government from a US government facility? If I want to trim the tree in my front yard I have to beg the indulgence of the government.
And then he went to war against the United States and attempted to destroy it.
The statues are owned by the states and selected and provided by the states.
They disgust me.
Lee,Calhoun,Davis,Jackson etal are all American heroes.
Trying to erase history is just sad.
Who’s next? Betty Crocker?
You're talking about "bleeding Kansas" where four different proposed constitutions were presented to Congress, including the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution.
Until Southern secession in 1861, proposed anti-slavery Kansas constitutions were rejected by Southerners in Congress and the pro-slavery Lecompton constitution was rejected by Northern Republicans, even though supported by Democrat President Buchanan.
The fact is that the vast majority of Kansas citizens were anti-slavery, but Southern Democrats believed they had a right to make Kansas a slave-state.
Speaking of Congress' rejection of the pro-slavery Lecomption constitution:
No, the fact is that by the early 1800s every Northern state had begun to abolish slavery, and by 1860 there were only a handful of slaves remaining in New Jersey, none in other Northern states.
At the same time, populations of freed-blacks grew rapidly in most Northern states.
But until around 1858 most Northerners were Democrats, allied politically with Southern Democrats for the purpose of expanding slavery into US territories and (via SCOTUS's Dred Scott opinion) even into Northern states where slavery was considered illegal.
At least two major things had changed by 1860.
One was that SCOTUS Dred Scott ruling, which represented the peak of Southern slavery expansion politics making Northerners realize that slavery could well be reintroduced into their own states.
The second was the work of Fire Eaters in Southern states, splitting their previously majority Democrat party in half and convincing Southern leaders and voters that the election of a "Black Republican" President like Lincoln was reason enough for secession.
And so secession came, soon followed by Civil War.
Semper Vigilantis: "When I up to the NE from TX for work I was shocked at the racism and the way black people were treated and talked about.
I had to go to 'diversity training' because of my accent, but those same people dropped the "n word" like it was nothing. "
I am long since retired, but I've never seen anything remotely resembling your experiences since... well, the 1960s.
I have heard that African Americans themselves sometimes use the "n-word" to each other as a term of endearment, but I've not heard it used anywhere -- North, South, East or West -- since I was a boy.
I suspect there's some politically inspired exaggeration going on here.
Semper Vigilantis: "THERE'S your "crock of Democrat Adam Schiff!"."
Way, way too much of that going around, FRiend.
And your evidence for this is what, exactly?
Florida's statues are John Gorrie, who was not a politician, and Edmund Kirby Smith, who is already slated to be replaced by Mary McCloud Bethune, also not a politician.
“And your evidence for this is what, exactly?”
Keep going. You’ll prove my point.
In other words, you have no evidence.
That's what I thought.
Keep going, Sunshine. Let that hate come through. You’ll show us.
No hate here, FRiend, only love for the truth.
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