Confederate flag shadows SEC tournament (Article)

Completely agree with you. I'm in delaware right now and you wouldn't believe the stereotypically crap about the south i have to put up with. people can't tell where i am from because my accent has flattened out, so when they start bitching about the south i just ask them "have you ever been there?" Usually the answer is no, then i tell them that there is more racism up here than the south. in the north you have huge populations of jewish, italian, irish, greek, slovac, etc. They are friendly to each other but heaven forbid them getting involved in a serious relationship with each other.

 

With a statement like that it only shows how ignorant or stupid people are about history. It also goes to show that in school they DID NOT pay attention to their teacher and created a history that suits their life. What is so sad is that ignorance can be corrected, but stupidity well……….

If you care to go back and look at when the first “actual slaves” were being sent to the U.S. was well before the 1800’s. It actually started in the 1500’s. They were prisoners of tribal wars in Africa it was either they die or be sold. By the way they were sold by their “OWN PEOPLE”. (Which anyone in this day and age knows it doesn’t make it right.)

What you call the great southern tradition is only a very small representative, actually minute, percentage of the south. Very few people owned large enough plantations to own slaves in that great a proportion. However, there were families that owned small farms that owned one or two slaves. AND, out of all these people I cannot believe that EVERYONE as you say treated

As they say one bad apple spoils the whole barrel. World History is full of hate, ignorance and rage. Just look at this day and time at parents that abuse their children. Does that mean that everyone that has children abuses them?

By the way, what about the Irish Immigrants of the North? Weren’t they treated horribly? They were subjected to the same conditions that you mentioned that the southern slaves endured. Oh, but wait that is right they weren’t really slaves, just indentured servants.


It is apparent that you are not a Southern (which is good) we do not need people like you living in the South because, it is people like you that continue to support and build the hate that is called racism.

Heather
:geauxtige

 

Yep, that's the one I fly at home. :thumb:
Long may it wave.

 

I rememeber my seventh grade text book had a section in the civil war chapter titled "South better off losing the War." Of course this book was produced in the Yankee north. The truth is for about 100 years after the war the south was nothing more than a colony of the north. The southern economy was in shambles because of the punishment of reconstruction and the corrupt regimes in brought in. What history books choose to focus on is all the freedmen who were elected in the south. No mention that most of the elections were rigged. No mention of how far back the south was set by reconstruction. No mention of the attrocites commited by the northern army. Hell they don't even mention that two Union states were slave states.

I think the greatest myth perpetuated by history is that of Honest Abe Lincoln and the noble Union fighting to free the slaves.

I also hate how people think at some point in history the northern slave owers said "This slavery thing is wrong. Let's let our slaves go." Slavery did not make sense economiclly in the north. If there is anything the yankee knows about it i how to make a dollar. It was cheaper to pay a no good whop or mick a penny a day than to feed, cloth, and house thousands of slaves, so they sold their slaves to southerners.

I'm done.

 

Don't worry...I got him for you.

 

1. the north is just as racist as the south. i have lived in the deepest of the deep south, and the most yankee of the yankee north. its the same.

2. my entire family is from south carolina, they do not mind rebel flags. they dont hate blacks though, at least not any more than they hate whites.

3. i like to use offensive terms to express my hate, but some of these terms are too painful for many people to bear, so i cannot say them in the contexts i would like. however i am allowed to use any and all terms to disparage the whites i hate.

4. in a given situation regarding race, the group that is more offended is is in the wrong 80% of the time.

 

Relax, way down yonder in the land of cotton we have the LSU Tigers, thank you very much. We have Tiger fans on this forum not racists and bigots even though many of us are American by birth and southern by the grace of God :

 

Crawfish can help you with that one.

 

quotes by Abe Lincoln

Resolution that had unanimous Republican support in the House of Reps, Feb 11 1861. Recorded in the Congressional Globe
If the "civil war" had just been about slavery there would've been no need for the south to secede because a law protecting slavery was more than likely going to be passed.

In an attempt to keep Southern States from leaving the Union, a thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, very different from the current one, was whittled out of the Crittendon Compromise by both Republicans and Democrats, with Lincoln's approval and even his signature. It was approved by Congress on February 28, 1861, and submitted to the States for ratification on March 2, 1861. It declared:

The great majority of Confederate soldiers owned no slaves. The 1860 United States census revealed that about 25% of white Southern families, or about 6% of the total white Southern population held slaves. Why would 94% of the white southern population be willing to fight and perhaps die to prolong an institution that did not benefit from?

Yet another of Abe Lincolns quotes saying he wasn't in favor of abolishing slavery on preserving the union:

From the CSA constitution:

and finally in closing i will leave you with Jefferson Davis in his farewell address to the United States Senate.