re: Was slavery an important factor in the Civil War?

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Can people on this board not see how this is problematic?

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I find it problematic that you evidently think the Civil Rights Movement is from the late 19th century.

In regards to this theory being parroted by academics ( who rarely, if ever have given examples supporting this theory)and then repeated by lazy amplifiers such as yourself, it should be noted that many of these monuments were from remaining veterans , who in the twilight of their lives, sought to finally give many of these dead men a symbol of remembrance. You should understand that a great many of the Confederate dead never made it back to their home states, much less their home towns. A great many were placed on top of one another in mass unmarked graves, often many states away from their homes, while the more unlucky ones were left to rot above ground . These memorials are the only marker or recognition their families ever had to remember them. To say these were constructed in some well connected diabolical plot to "put the black man in his place" is just ludicrous if one puts the least bit of research into this.

I said the civil rights and Jim Crow. Monuments being built as you said in the 1920s would be during Jim Crow, also some of the monuments are in states that weren’t even part of the Confederacy.

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Did the Confederacy want to keep slavery legal? If so, how can one not see the problem with having a statue celebrating someone that fought for this cause? Also most of these statues were not built right after the war, but rather later during the Civil Rights movement and Jim Crowe in order to send a message that their was a status quo that was going to be maintained. Can people on this board not see how this is problematic?

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Are you a Democrat, why do you want the rest of us to deal with your racist evil past?

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Yes. But the north should have forced the issue with carrot rather than the stick. The stick left too many scars.

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Im sorry, the North did not form the Confederacy, the Southern Democrats did, and hell some of them did it before Lincoln was even sworn in.

Democrats, as we now know is just their nature, lost their fricking minds because they lost a fricking election.

To blame the North or Abraham Lincoln for the Civil war is such total fricking bullshite, its ridiculous.

Democrats then, Democrats now, that's the fricking problem

Yes. Yes it was

No I am not, but again, it’s disingenuous to try to equate the modern day Democratic Party with slavery or being anti-civil rights during the civil rights movement. There was a big switch between the Democrat and Republican parties, leading to Ronald Reagan’s quote “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” White, southern conservatives (a group that is largely Republican today) were Democrats during the time of the Civil Rights movement.

There was no switch, that’s a fricking fairy tale lol. You’re kinda like a leftist fallacy jukebox.

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There was a big switch between the Democrat and Republican parties, 

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Which elected Democrats became Republicans or vice versa?

Biggest fricking myth of them all

It’s like he believes it’s republican vs republican in every ticket down here lol. I guess we just don’t count the politicians that lose in this alt world?