Protestors Topple Confederate Monument in North Carolina

[Rookie Yinzer]

Good.

Do they not realize that most slaveholders did not fight in the war? They stayed at home and watched young southern men die in droves. You may not believe this, I think I mentioned it once before, but my ancestors stemming from my dad's mom (who was an orphan from Atlanta) had ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. None of them owned a single slave. In fact, most of them struggled to get by. They were railroad workers, postmen, or store clerks.

Just something to think about.

So? They were still anti-black and viewed black people as animals. They were above all else fighting to protect white supremacy and perceived Northern aggression to make blacks equal.

[Rookie Yinzer]

It is really remarkable that Americans are now further from achieving Lincoln's dream of national unity than they were in 1890; there are people in this thread right now who feel more animosity towards the Confederacy than did many of the men who actually fought against it.

That most of you seem to view the civil war as 'WWII on American soil' is an indictment of the American educational system.

And exactly why should we not feel animosity towards people who were fighting to protect slavery?

[Rookie Yinzer]

It is really remarkable that Americans are now further from achieving Lincoln's dream of national unity than they were in 1890; there are people in this thread right now who feel more animosity towards the Confederacy than did many of the men who actually fought against it.

That most of you seem to view the civil war as 'WWII on American soil' is an indictment of the American educational system.

And exactly why should we not feel animosity towards people who were fighting to protect slavery?

Everyone practiced slavery at that time including blacks in Africa who sold their siblings as animals, The left is pathetic.

So? That's not any reason that these statues should remain up. I don't revere people who practiced chattel slavery which included starvation, physical abuse, rape, murder, and torture. You are sick.

ETA: Nor do I revere those who fought to protect it or at the least fought it to keep blacks as a permanent subhuman class.