Why is it when someone disagrees with a southerner on the Civil War it is automatically assumed by them (the least objective of the two parties), that their critic is un-informed, uneducated, or simply hasn't read the "right" books? I was unaware until now that arrogance and condescencion were "a southern thing."
Tell me, how does it feel to be a fellow traveller of the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the Reverend Fahrakhan? They glom on to the silly arguments of Confederate apologists to support their silly arguments in favor of reparations, continued support of quotas, expandding the federal government, and every other silly welfare program they can think of. That in itself should tell you something.
P.S. should you respond to this, try to actually answer one or more of the points I've made instead of trying side-step them with cute phrases and tired witicisms. Oh, and the next time you hear some muslim making excuses for the misguided policies of Islam, remember this: you sound just the same when you try to defend the policies of the south that led to the Civil War. Not even your beloved Lee believed in the cause.
"God alone can save us from our folly, selfishness and shortsightedness.... I see only that a fearful calamity is upon us...." - Robert E. Lee, letter to Martha Custis Williams, January 22, 1861.
"I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution." - Robert E. Lee, letter to his son, January 23, 1861.
Name calling is such a petty response, I don't believe I'll respond further to your diatribes. Have a nice weekend.