re: How do you feel about Mississippi's "Confederate Heritage Month"?

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This would make a lot more sense, and would be much more inclusive. Although I doubt it would paint the Confederacy as a sympathetic group, which would cause an outcry from people who think it's a heritage worth celebrating.

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Let's all form a huge circle, hold hands, sing Kumbaya , long for Africa, and cry about how slavery is still a dagger in your heart.

Don't forget to share a Coke.

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sorantable

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Sissy boy !

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They've had 160 years to get over it.

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the Civil War? Nothing for black people to get over there. A lot of white people who whipped and abused them went off to war against other white people and got killed. The pro-slavery side got destroyed and the war ended with the abolition of slavery. For black people the Civil War was probably a great time in the middle between slavery and over a century of oppression that followed.

The liberals in my family live in totally white gated communities with armed security guards. They call us from Seattle, Arizona and California to let us know how racist we are. Hypocrites all of them. We're not far off from another revolution. The majority have had it with the left and their utter nonsense. This time won't be the north against the south but Patriots against the Nazi traitors.

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Then again, I also recognize that it was a different world in the mid-1800s, and I could have just as easily found myself fighting alongside Confederate forces because I wouldn't know any better.

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I’m glad you went this far in your thinking at least. Yet your last sentence is short sighted.

You may have been like many Southerners and fighting not for slavery, as most Confederate soldiers didn’t own slaves, but simply because you believed you must defend your home, family, and friends. Or because you felt more loyalty to your state as was very common then.

I think it is very simplistic and wrong to judge swathes of people that lived long ago, especially in such turbulent situations. We can of course examine a specific person and his words, beliefs, etc. But not millions of common people.

I say this as someone whose great great grandfather Samuel, along with all four of his brothers, were officers in the Union army. They came from St Louis. Samuel met my great great grandmother in New Orleans during the war. He was wounded and in a hospital and she was a nurse. This was when the city was under federal occupation by the Union army.

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Why were the last slaves to be free northern slaves?

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because the South lost.

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because the South lost.

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Wouldn’t the “anti slave” side free their own slaves BEFORE fighting a war to end slavery instead of continuing to allow slavery until after the war?

Again, why didn’t the north free their slaves?

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How do you feel about Mississippi's "Confederate Heritage Month"?

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I can't think of something that is less important to worry about at a time like this.

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This is a sure way to win blacks over to the Republican Party.

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So , would you lick their balls to get them to vote Republican ?