re: This nonsense needs to stop...change.org petition to change LSU's "racist" mascot

You don't know what those men fought for except what has been rammed down your throat by our failed education system. The Civil War was not fought over the issue of slavery.

One component later in the war was slavery but slavery didn't start the war. It was Northern aggression. The North wanted the cotton grown in the South for a pittance and planned to tax Southern planters. That's what began the revolt.

Don't forget the unicorns and rainbows.

The South was paying 75% of the federal budget due to the tariffs on imported goods from Europe. Most of this money ended up being spent on projects for northern interest. Six million southerners were getting the economic shaft from twenty million northerners. The South had had enough and decided to go it's own way, without the north. The north didn't want to give up it's sweet deal and ultimately re-enslaved the south while making sure that the south was never an economic threat to the north ever again. They did this by freeing the slaves, which instantly removed over four billion dollars in wealth from the South while crippling their economy and through reconstruction which hamstrung the south politically.

We need to attack these people. We need to boycott their employers and ruin them professionally as well as personally.