Perhaps respond to what is posted then instead of repeating old lines. If you read my response to First FiveEighth you will see that I agree much has changed in political parties as you would expect. That doesn’t address though what was posted.
The truth isn’t an old line. I’ll repeat it where necessary, but thanks for your concern.
Old lines can be the truth, but it still doesn’t address what was posted. Try doing that.The truth isn’t an old line. I’ll repeat it where necessary, but thanks for your concern.
I have been attacked on this and other threads, REPEATEDLY, with baseless accusations that because I have the audacity to point out historical fact the Confederacy were “losers,” heavens forbid the Confederate snowflakes would get their feelings hurt by the word “losers”, that it somehow means I would ever criticize our Vietnam veterans - heroes, all of them. When I have REPEATEDLY praised their sacrifices for the U.S. and for U.S. interests. They fought for America - not against America. It’s not rocket science.
Only God can see into the hearts of people. You can only guess.
There are racist Democrats in the Democratic leadership and elected office …Joe Biden ring a bell?
Yep, to all points.
No, it’s what these groups themselves have said about Trump’s remarks.
Well, if one of the “confederate” groups refused to let Marian Anderson sing in their concert hall, it’s a fairly educated guess that the whole heritage and “honoring our forefathers” thing was less their m.o. than encouraging racism.
Perhaps the poster was merely pointing out the historical fact that Americans were “losers” in the Vietnam War as they did not realize any of their geopolitical goals in that region and communist influence grew both in Southeast Asia and worldwide?
It was also at a time when last surviving Civil War veterans were dying off. I suspect these memorials had more to do with honoring the sacrifices of their fathers and grandfathers than with promoting racism. If racism was the intent, Robert E. Lee was a poor choice for a statue, Lee having preached reconciliation with the North in the final years of his life (he passed away in 1870), and having freed his own slaves before the war. He was also a reluctant secessionist, resigning his US Army commission only after his home state of Virginia had left the Union.
These are intertwined. And “more to do with” does not eliminate the component of racism.
He was the leader an army of secessionists states whose cause was slavery.
Precisely.
FDR at the dedication ceremony of the Robert E.Lee memorial and Robert E. Lee Park in Dallas:
It drips with racism, I am sure…
Was it an all-white audience, or were any blacks in attendance?FDR at the dedication ceremony of the Robert E.Lee memorial and Robert E. Lee Park in Dallas:
It drips with racism, I am sure…
Their documents… no some documents. Some states had secession documents that mentioned slavery, but not all states had such documents. And the documents are more complex than you suggest. It was a complex problem. It is a fact that the Union wasn’t fighting to end slavery, offering compensation to masters for freed slaves, or offering to accept as refugees the entire slave population. The last two are big issues that aren’t considered by most people.