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    We'll have to agree to disagree.

    What about the "Confederate History Month"?

    Is that insensitive, in your view?

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    To address the article referenced, Roland Martin is an idiot studying hard to be an imbecile. While I personally view confederate soldiers to have been traitors - especially officers who were sworn to the United States before secession was declared - they most certainly were NOT terrorists, nor were their actions in any way comparable to the Nazis' holocaust.

    When you make the argument that the South was angry with the North for "invading" its "homeland," Osama bin Laden has said the same about U.S. soldiers being on Arab soil. He has objected to our bases in Saudi Arabia, and that's one of the reasons he has launched his jihad against us. Is there really that much of a difference between him and the Confederates? Same language; same cause; same effect.
    How fracking brain dead can one be? In the first place, Osama Bin Laden was NOT at any time a representative of any government in the M.E. Therefore his call for U.S. troops to leave had no political basis. Second, the claim that the South wass angry for the North INVADING just shows a complete ignorance of history. The North did not invade until well AFTER war had been declared between the secessionist states and the Union. What the South was angry about, and the primary reason the South elected to secede was the innumerable economic sanctions and imbalanced interstate commerce rules, many of which were unconstitutional, being imposed by the northern industrial states who held a majority in the House of Representatives. Third (and most important), at NO time did the Confederates deliberately target civilians or civilian assets as a means to "prove their point". They fought a MILITARY war against MILITARY targets and personnel. Mr. Martin obviously has no CLUE what defines terrorism.

    If a Confederate soldier was merely doing his job in defending his homeland, honor and heritage, what are we to say about young Muslim radicals who say the exact same thing as their rationale for strapping bombs on their bodies and blowing up cafes and buildings?
    Further proof Martin is a complete dough head who has zero concept of the difference between a military soldier (even one who is a traitor) and a terrorist. Again, Confederate soldiers did NOT attack civilian targets to make their point. They fought against the Union MILITARY. (Too bad the Union forces could not make the same claim when they did invade the South) To equate a rebellion soldier to the act of blowing up oneself to take out innocent civilians just trying to enjoy their lunch period shows Martin to be completely lacking in anything resembling genuine thought processes.

    If the Sons of Confederate Veterans use as a talking point the vicious manner in which people in the South were treated by the North, doesn't that sound exactly like the Taliban saying they want to kill Americans for the slaughter of innocent people in Afghanistan?
    Unless Martin can point to Confederate veterans who wanted to randomly kill Americans, his comparison again falls way short. Yes, the Confederates and many in the South today complain, and rightfully so, of the way the South was treated, before, during, and after the War. And when it comes to complaining, the Taliban also has a popint in the number of innocents killed by American forces. The difference is the Taliban is calling for our slaughter in return. The confederates did not indicate any such desire.

    In short, the Confederate Soldier was NOT, in any way, shape, or form a terrorist. Period. And while I personally object to HONORING the traitorous bastages, trying to equate them to terrorists or Nazis far crosses the line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smarter Than All Y'All View Post
    They should have been executed as traitors. Then we wouldn't have today's GOP.
    what a moron. you and desh both. did you forget that the confederates were democrats? todays dixiecrats? conservative democrats?
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    It's certainly going to be interpreted as insensitive by many.

    But there's no way to deny that the Southern states have a heritage of people who fought in the civil war. I wouldn't seek to delete that, and as Hunter says:

    "Complicated historical questions have been whittled down to politically correct bromides, more digestible to children and politicians."

    I added the emphasis because the statement amuses me.

    I do think it's also offensive (though not to as many people) to cast off the recognition of war dead and veterans of our country's civil war based on whether they sided with the Union or the Confederacy. That's not in the spirit of reconciliation or respecting our country's history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    What was strom Thurman?
    In what way do Republicans want Civil Rights ended now Desh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dixie View Post
    It was a REPUBLICAN who emancipated the slaves... Abraham Lincoln!
    It was REPUBLICANS who decided not to try CSA leaders for treason!
    It was REPUBLICANS who supported Civil Rights and DEMOCRATS who were split!
    It is a DEMOCRAT who was a former Klansman... Robert Byrd!
    This.

    Plus the KKK was established as the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party, and assassinated many blacks and Republicans.

    LOL at the lib-tard fools here who don't know history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    What was strom Thurman?
    Not a member of the KKK...only the democratic hero, Robert Byrd holds that honor.....

    THURMAN...A Democrat from S. Carolina...Governor and Senator and Circuit Court Judge...ran for President on the States Rights Democratic Party ticket.
    As a Democrat, he made this statement. "I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."

    Thurmond was influential in arresting all those responsible for the lynch mob murder of Willie Earl. Thurmond was congratulated by the NAACP and the ACLU for his efforts.

    Thurmond endorsed Republican Dwight Eisenhower for the Presidency, rather than Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson. This led state Democratic Party leaders to block Thurmond from receiving the nomination to the Senate in 1954, forcing him to run as a write-in candidate.

    Thurmond was increasingly at odds with the Democratic Party and in 1964, he switched his party affiliation to Republican.

    As a Republican, Thurmond supported extending the Voting Rights Act, making the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. a federal holiday.[2] He appointed African-American Thomas Moss to his staff in 1971, with some reports describing it as the first appointment by a member of the South Carolinian congressional delegation, and others as the first by a Southern senator.
    Put blame where it belongs
    ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
    It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
    The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.


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    There is very little doubt about the modern GOPs' relentless appeal to racists.

    As the Southern Strategy became apparent, fewer and fewer African-Americans voted Republican in the last 4 decades of the 20th Century.

    Republicans saw an opportunity to gain votes by appealing to racists who never forgave the Democratic Party for supporting civil rights.

    Many charges of racism have been made regarding recent Republican campaign tactics.

    The infamous Willie Horton commercials used by George H. W. Bush against Michael Dukakis were racist.

    The 1990 campaign of Jesse Helms attacked his opponent's alleged support of "racial quotas," most notably through a notorious TV spot in which white hands were seen crumpling a letter (stating that he was denied a job because he was Caucasian), was likewise racist.

    The Republican Party went too far when they stole the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

    Once Barack Obama became the Democratic challenger to GOP racism, the Republican strategy of appealing to racists through "codewords" was rendered ineffective.

    Obama gained majority support in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Florida, Delaware, and North Carolina, and he also won southwestern states that had previously voted Republican.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smarter Than All Y'All View Post
    There is very little doubt about the modern GOPs' relentless appeal to racists.

    As the Southern Strategy became apparent, fewer and fewer African-Americans voted Republican in the last 4 decades of the 20th Century.

    Republicans saw an opportunity to gain votes by appealing to racists who never forgave the Democratic Party for supporting civil rights.

    Many charges of racism have been made regarding recent Republican campaign tactics.

    The infamous Willie Horton commercials used by George H. W. Bush against Michael Dukakis were racist.

    The 1990 campaign of Jesse Helms attacked his opponent's alleged support of "racial quotas," most notably through a notorious TV spot in which white hands were seen crumpling a letter (stating that he was denied a job because he was Caucasian), was likewise racist.

    The Republican Party went too far when they stole the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

    Once Barack Obama became the Democratic challenger to GOP racism, the Republican strategy of appealing to racists through "codewords" was rendered ineffective.

    Obama gained majority support in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Florida, Delaware, and North Carolina, and he also won southwestern states that had previously voted Republican.
    :lol: You must be on crack. Either that or you swallowed everything your Democrat high school teachers dished out to you without question.

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    Your evidence is.........?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smarter Than All Y'All View Post
    Your evidence is.........?
    You made the accusations so its up to you to prove them. Knock yourself out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Southern Man View Post
    You made the accusations so its up to you to prove them. Knock yourself out.
    I made no accusations, I stated facts. You can use a search engine, can't you?

    BTW, shouldn't you be working in your garden or on that project for work? After all you have a life.

    LOLZ!

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    If you have "facts" then they should be easy to prove. But you can't. :lol:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Southern Man View Post
    If you have "facts" then they should be easy to prove. But you can't. :lol:
    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...7c3568f2eec009

    Get somebody who can to read the search results to you.

    BTW, don't you "have a life"? Or are you posting here because it is your only job?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smarter Than All Y'All View Post
    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...7c3568f2eec009

    Get somebody who can to read the search results to you.

    BTW, don't you "have a life"? Or are you posting here because it is your only job?
    You must be TaiChiLib-Tard, because he uses that same tactic, linking to something that fails to prove his point.

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