Virginia declares April Confederate History Month....cr@ckas are going too far now

hrap-120 wrote: »

Many homosexuals have feminine attributes, such as attention-? , and just attention-seeking period....homosexual posters are no different.
I have discovered that the best way to deal with a homosexual poster is to virtually ignore them and deny their existence in order to deprive them of the attention that they desperately seek.

I once had a conversation with a poor gender-confused child, this creature didn't have the testicular fortitude to be a "man" and lacked the physical attributes to be a woman so "it" was hopelessly stuck in the middle....a purgatory of sorts for the children of a lesser ? .

To make a long story short this ? bull-dagger had the nerve to call me a racist, so I calmly told "it" that despite my prejudice it was virtually impossible for me to be "racist"due to me being a non-white person I lacked the power as an individual and my race as a collective to control or influence white people in the areas of (1)Economics, (2)Education, (3)Entertainment, (4)Labor, (5)Law, (6)Politics, (7)Religion, (8)Sex and (9)War.........therefore despite my prejudice towards my oppressor and enemy I could never be "racist".

Chuuuch

kingblaze84 wrote: »

And you are wrong to say the hate some blacks have for whites is equal to the hate whites have had for blacks. White people have done much more evil stuff to blacks than blacks ever could do. Research the history of Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and England.....and you will see why I use the word ? so much.

kingblaze84 wrote: »

Good point of course but the Confederate flag was very explicit in that they were fighting for the sake of keeping slavery.....at least the Union made steps to free slaves before the Confederacy did. The Union was not innocent but they were much better than the Confederates.

kingblaze84 wrote: »

Well keep in mind that when Lincoln got elected, he promised to stop the spreading of slave states. Lincoln was a racist himself, but at least he admitted slavery was a stain on the nation's soul and reputation. Lincoln campaigned on having slavery be as limited to as few states as possible.....

Meanwhile, the Confederacy wanted slavery to spread. When Lincoln got elected, some states eventually seceded, fearing that Lincoln would try to free their slaves. Lincoln is no hero to me, but he is arguably one of the greatest presidents for the simple fact that he eventually freed slaves in the Confederacy and pledged to stop the spreading of slavery in America.

I think Lincoln and the Union should get at least some respect for that. The Confederates were nothing more than domestic terrorists who eventually became the leaders of the KKK.

The South fought to keep slavery, period
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com
e went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery. Men fight from sentiment. After the fight is over they invent some fanciful theory on which they imagine that they fought.'' -- Confederate Col. John Mosby

Ten years ago, I received an e-mail from a reader who signed him or herself ``J.D.'' ``I am a white racist,'' wrote J.D., ``a white supremacist, and I do not deny it.''

From that, you'd suspect J.D. had nothing of value to say. You'd be mistaken. J.D. wrote in response to a column documenting the fact that preservation of slavery was the prime directive of the southern confederacy. ``I was most pleased to see you write what we both know to be the truth,'' the e-mail said. ``I never cease to be amazed at the Sons of Confederate Veterans and similar `heritage not hate' groups who are constantly whining that the Confederacy was not a white, racist government . . .''

That argument, noted J.D. with wry amusement, plays well with ``white people who want to be Confederates without any controversy.''

It was an astute observation, the truth of which was deftly illustrated recently by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. Seems he issued a proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month in the Commonwealth. Said proclamation contained not the barest mention that the confederacy went to war to preserve slavery, an omission that got the governor pilloried in the court of public opinion.

So McDonnell apologized and tried again, inserting into his proclamation a paragraph observing that this Confederacy we are invited to commemorate was built upon an ``evil'' and ``inhumane'' practice. That little bit of cognitive dissonance neatly accomplished, the proclamation was duly reissued.

But there's still a flaw in it. Namely in a line that speaks of how ``the people of Virginia joined the Confederate States of America.'' See, no one asked half a million of ``the people of Virginia'' about joining any Confederacy. As they were owned by their fellow citizens, they had no say in the matter.

And so it goes in the ongoing effort by apologists for the Confederacy to convince the rest of us that an act of high treason committed in the name of preserving human ? somehow deserves honor and respect. It's a case that cannot be made on its own dubious merits, so they are obliged to pretend the cause wasn't what it was, to write slaves and slavery out of the story.

McDonnell is hardly the first. Indeed, the practice is nearly as old as the Civil War itself. Confederate ``President'' Jefferson Davis once flatly cited ``the labor of African slaves'' as the cause of the rebellion. After the war, with that cause repudiated, he wrote, ``slavery was in no wise the cause of the conflict.'' It's a straight line from Davis' amnesia to McDonnell's omission.

The governor seeks to render the Confederacy harmless, to be a Confederate without controversy. He seeks to validate the vestigial southern impulse which insists, contrary to logic, that the tragic suffering and incontestable bravery of Confederate forebears must somehow redeem the awful cause for which they fought. But the simple truth is, they do not. Nor can they until or unless we agree to murder memory, to ? recollection of our greatest national trauma, to enter into a conspiracy of romantic lies.

Confederate hero John Mosby, quoted above, understood this. Even J.D., the unrepentant racist, did.

It is past time the entire remnant of the Confederacy, all its apologists and battle flag fetishists, understood it, too. The alternative is to continue insisting upon sophistry as truth, and to periodically embarrass themselves and mystify the rest of us with their stubborn fealty to the stinking corpse of a long lost cause. It is to learn for the umpteen-millionth time what the governor was just taught.

Memory dies hard.