re: 154 years ago today.

Yankee. Get out of my thread. Go back to your Safe Space.

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You self identify and celebrate a movement that went to war to keep a group of humans in slavery because of some melatonin in their skin.

You need some "yankee" in your life.

The South is better than that in the year 2017

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You and a couple other posters in this thread are nothing but smug, arrogant, ignorant of history idiots and hypocrites. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was unenforceable on the states in rebellion. If Lincoln and the Union REALLY wanted to end slavery, he could just as easily made the provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation applicable to the Northern states at the same time, where it WAS enforceable. You do realize there were slaves in the Union states before and during the Civil War? No, I guess you do not know this, until now. The 13th amendment was passed by a Union Congress on January 31, 1865 and was not ratified until December 6, 1865, 8 months after the war ended. Yes, the Stars and Bars flew over the Confederate slave states for 4 years. And more importantly, the Stars and Stripes flew over the Union slave states for 89 years. Don't come in here claiming some moral high ground saying that the Confederacy alone bears all the guilt and shame of slavery. Research Lincoln's opinion on slavery. He, too, was a hypocrite. Slavery was terrible and will forever be a blight on our nation's history, but slavery was a national problem and blight, not just a southern peculiarity.