re: What is the largest city that didn’t buckle to the anti-confederate trends?

Here’s my opinion that no one asked for.

If there is a reason for a statue, like they are from the town or something important happened there, the statue makes sense.

An example would be a statue of Lee in Antietam or Stonewall Jackson in Chancellorsville. Those statues would make sense and have historical significance

If they’ve never been to your state or city and did nothing significant there, the statues are an obvious provocation and I don’t care if they are removed.

An example would be the statue of Robert E Lee in Dallas that was removed. He never went to Dallas and never did anything significant there, so why is there a statue of him?

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A traitor who wins is a revolutionary. A traitor that loses is just a loser.

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love how all these idiots who would be too chicken shite to ever stand up for anything themselves get all bowed up and bragging about something they never had anything to do with.

The biggest draft riots in the history of the country were in New York in the 1860's because the pieces of shite running the union army were drafting saps right off the boats from Ireland because their native borns were too chickenshit to sign up.

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Celebrating traitors should be ridiculed

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Of course I am glad slavery is over. But America would be better off today if the belief in states rights was more prevalent.

The federal government is WAY too big. They should only be involved in defense, interstate travel, and foreign policy. Everything else should be the business of each state. The average citizen is far too removed from some dipshit in Washington DC. If things were more local, or at least state run, we would have a better chance of our wishes being carried out.

Again slavery is a horrible institution and I am glad it is over in our country, even though it still exists in many parts of the world.

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Now do Martin Luther King you dumbass

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That’s quite different and you know it.

I’m not hating on every Robert E Lee statue or saying the man was some horrible person.

My comment is that it makes sense to have confederate statues in places where they are from or where they did important things but I understand why people wouldn’t want them where they didn’t live or do important things

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the slavery that existed in the US was but a fraction of the scale, in numbers and duration, that was present before, during, and after, we just get the bad rap for it

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It really only comes up because people want our money.

Nobody tries to extort the British when they controlled slavery in the US for far longer.

1640-first slave comes to America
1781-America defeats Britain in the Revolutionary war.
(British were in control for 141 years).

America only had slaves for 80 years (1781-1861) when civil war started.

And there is no mention of who sold the slaves to white people. That would be Africans capturing and selling their neighbors on the beaches. Certainly they should be held to account, except those people dont have any money so there is noting to get from them.

The reparation people also never say anything about slavery that currently exists in the world.

Take your thoughtful well reasoned response and gtfo of here you fricking piece of shite.

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Some people were exceptional and were greatly admired for various personal characteristics. It’s times of conflict that allow some of those traits to shine, despite the disputes over the central issues of the conflict.

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yep, after the war, this guy advocated for civil rights, was a major contributor to infrastructure improvements in nola and helped invent the street car line…

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Celebrating traitors should be ridiculed

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Traitors to who?

Franklin, TN. Johnny Reb still towering over the square.

They offered peaceful secession, and thought they had a valid legal case even thought the Constitution was silent on it. They offered to pay their states' share of the national debt, and offered recompense for all federal property within their states.

They were really bad at being traitors.

On an unrelated note, are all Arkansas fans familiar with the flavor of penis?