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Originally Posted by thorn69
Most of these "facts" you've claimed are real are biased "he said/he said" arguments from long ago and aren't really facts Steve. It's always been one side's story or the other. People have to choose which side they want to believe in I guess. There's just as much "fact" on both sides of this argument. But what was really right back then Steve? Going to war against the South and burning down their cities and homes for choosing to leave in peace? According to the Constitution, they had that right. Would you condone a nasty war like that today if Obama wanted to invade Arizona for passing their law and enforcing it? Come on, you're smart enough to say "No" to that I'd hope! Anytime the government resorts to military use against it's own people in order to force policy on them - it's wrong. As you can see, Lincoln's goal of keeping the Union as a whole hasn't really kept us together. It's just lead to a back and forth argument that will never die. It's pointless to continue to argue. You'll never get me to see things your way and you'll never see things mine.
When you grow up in a city that had a lovely street called Monument Ave. lined with beautiful statues of some of the Civil war's greatest Southern Generals trashed with a statue of Arthur Ashe holding a tennis racket and a book, maybe you'd understand! It was obviously done as a slap in the face to anybody who has respect for the South. Or when Robert E. Lee Blvd got it's name changed to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd to appease the blacks in the city and once again slap the face of Southern respect!
Richmond was the Capital of the Confederacy. It's also the city I grew up in a long time ago. Now it's being dismounted by sheer ignorance and people who for some reason believe the war was fought on the grounds of slavery. That's just ignorant BS! It's these same people who want the truth about the Civil war to be swept away. Funny how it's not us good ole boy Southerners that want it changed. We have nothing to hide. We want it to stay the way it is. It's history after all and a part of the foundation of the US and the way it is today. Love it or leave it!
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Why don't you calm down, Steve is not your enemy. I happen to believe the Civil War was fought over slavery myself, always seemed pretty obvious. But no matter, if you disagree, that's ok. Just be civil.
Neal