blacks protest annual confederacy celebration

[horselightning]

In Georgia, protesters march at monument to U.S. South's pro-slavery past

Carrying signs decrying "racist traitors," about a hundred civil rights activists marched and chanted at Georgia's Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy.

www.reuters.com

do they realize that most black slave owners doing it for money like the white ones. very few ere doing to keep black families together. the south sure is screwy i didnt not they had a celebration of this,

 

[Donald H]

It's always going to be condemned as racism when all people of any skin colour are grouped together in a negative way.

That's so obvious that it has to be seen as a deliberate statement supporting racism.

Do we really need more than one thread on racism or denial of racism?

Is that your point, or are you acknowledging the tactic and condemning it?

 

[jwoodie]

Stone Mountain commemorates three Confederate generals: Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson and Jefferson Davis, who also served as President of the Confederacy. The latter tried to avoid military conflict with the Federal government , even offering to pay for federal property and assuming the South's portion of the national debt, but was rebuffed by President Lincoln. (He subsequently approved the shelling of Fort Sumter in order to prevent its resupply with federal troops.)

Despite understandable opposition from the descendants of former slaves, Stone Mountain is a remembrance of a valiant military struggle against what was considered to be a foreign invasion. The vast majority of soldiers who fought on both sides did not do so to preserve or abolish slavery, but to follow what they believed to be separate moral imperatives: The preservation of the Union and the right of sovereign states to withdraw from the Union and defend themselves from invasion.

 

[horselightning]

Stone Mountain commemorates three Confederate generals: Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson and Jefferson Davis, who also served as President of the Confederacy. The latter tried to avoid military conflict with the Federal government , even offering to pay for federal property and assuming the South's portion of the national debt, but was rebuffed by President Lincoln. (He subsequently approved the shelling of Fort Sumter in order to prevent its resupply with federal troops.)

Despite understandable opposition from the descendants of former slaves, Stone Mountain is a remembrance of a valiant military struggle against what was considered to be a foreign invasion. The vast majority of soldiers who fought on both sides did not do so to preserve or abolish slavery, but to follow what they believed to be separate moral imperatives: The preservation of the Union and the right of sovereign states to withdraw from the Union and defend themselves from invasion.

enteresting

 

[horselightning]

It's always going to be condemned as racism when all people of any skin colour are grouped together in a negative way.

That's so obvious that it has to be seen as a deliberate statement supporting racism.

Do we really need more than one thread on racism or denial of racism?

Is that your point, or are you acknowledging the tactic and condemning

like blm condenming whites.

 

[Curried Goats]

Stone Mountain commemorates three Confederate generals: Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson and Jefferson Davis, who also served as President of the Confederacy. The latter tried to avoid military conflict with the Federal government , even offering to pay for federal property and assuming the South's portion of the national debt, but was rebuffed by President Lincoln. (He subsequently approved the shelling of Fort Sumter in order to prevent its resupply with federal troops.)

Despite understandable opposition from the descendants of former slaves, Stone Mountain is a remembrance of a valiant military struggle against what was considered to be a foreign invasion. The vast majority of soldiers who fought on both sides did not do so to preserve or abolish slavery, but to follow what they believed to be separate moral imperatives: The preservation of the Union and the right of sovereign states to withdraw from the Union and defend themselves from invasion.

Bullshit. The South was absolutely fighting to preserve slavery. Learn real history you ignorant twat.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

In Georgia, protesters march at monument to U.S. South's pro-slavery past

Carrying signs decrying "racist traitors," about a hundred civil rights activists marched and chanted at Georgia's Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy.

www.reuters.com

do they realize that most black slave owners doing it for money like the white ones. very few ere doing to keep black families together. the south sure is screwy i didnt not they had a celebration of this,

We realize you are a racist, mumble mouth idiot.

 

[jwoodie]

Bullshit. The South was absolutely fighting to preserve slavery. Learn real history you ignorant twat.

Virginia (by far the most important State in the Confederacy) voted not to secede from the Union until Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to invade the South.

But thanks for the insult. That is usually the death rattle of a losing argument.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Bullshit. The South was absolutely fighting to preserve slavery. Learn real history you ignorant twat.

Slavery was an ancillary part of the equation. The south seceded and were subsequently invaded. The US attacked in order to reclaim the southern states.
You need to unlearn your propaganda.

 

[Curried Goats]

Virginia (by far the most important State in the Confederacy) voted not to secede from the Union until Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to invade the South.

But thanks for the insult. That is usually the death rattle of a losing argument.

It's strategic importance and time frame of secession means what? The other states seceded to protect the institution of slavery and they said exactly that. Virginia hoped to preserve slavery without violence (to Americans, violence against slaves was perfectly fine) or secession but when Lincoln ordered troops to the South they saw the writing on the wall. The South, including Virginia seceded and were fighting to preserve slavery and its really hard to deny that fact when they said so themselves.

 

[Curried Goats]

Slavery was an ancillary part of the equation. The south seceded and were subsequently invaded. The US attacked in order to reclaim the southern states.
You need to unlearn your propaganda.

Why did the South secede again?

 

[Man of Ethics]

I support Conservative fight against Progressive Totalitarianism.

But covert and overt Racism by Conservatives is truly shameful.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Bullshit. The South was absolutely fighting to preserve slavery. Learn real history you ignorant twat.

American Slavery was particularly cruel. I spent years studying Russian Serfdom, and American Slavery was much worse.

 

[jwoodie]

It's strategic importance and time frame of secession means what? The other states seceded to protect the institution of slavery and they said exactly that. Virginia hoped to preserve slavery without violence (to Americans, violence against slaves was perfectly fine) or secession but when Lincoln ordered troops to the South they saw the writing on the wall. The South, including Virginia seceded and were fighting to preserve slavery and its really hard to deny that fact when they said so themselves.

Virginia hoped to preserve slavery without violence, which was in accordance with the existing laws of the United State. The preexisting Confederate States seceded before Lincoln's order, but Virginia did not. Get your time frame straight.

 

[jwoodie]

American Slavery was particularly cruel. I spent years studying Russian Serfdom, and American Slavery was much worse.

Apples and Oranges. American Slavery was less cruel than in the rest of the Western Hemisphere.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Apples and Oranges. American Slavery was less cruel than in the rest of the Western Hemisphere.

I studied Russian Serfdom in detail -- I came to USA from USSR in 1983. American Slavery was much worse.

 

[jwoodie]

I studied Russian Serfdom in detail -- I came to USA from USSR in 1983. American Slavery was much worse.

And the Holocaust was worse than American Slavery. Is there some relevant point to your posts?

 

[Man of Ethics]

And the Holocaust was worse than American Slavery. Is there some relevant point to your posts?

Holocaust was the worst Atrocity in History.

 

[Correll]

Amusing. THe article claims the one speaker is from an "self avowed white nationalist group" but the worst quote they could get from him is "The South remembers it's dead".

 

[2aguy]

In Georgia, protesters march at monument to U.S. South's pro-slavery past

Carrying signs decrying "racist traitors," about a hundred civil rights activists marched and chanted at Georgia's Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy.

www.reuters.com

do they realize that most black slave owners doing it for money like the white ones. very few ere doing to keep black families together. the south sure is screwy i didnt not they had a celebration of this,

Do they realize that as a group, black Americans vote for the political party of the Confederacy? The democrat party?

So why would they protest some sort of Confederacy Day, when they vote election after election for the very political party that ran the confederacy?