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Nupe4life
1] I was correct in calling the war that occured from 1861-1865 the War of Northern Aggression. The reason it is correct is that each state is, as the Declaration of Independence called, "free and independent" Thus if they are free and independent they would have a right to enter into alliances, which is all the Articles of Confederation and later the Constitution of 1787 actually are. With that said, the southern states had every right to annul the alliance, which they did when they seceded from the alliance. The Northern States were informed by the Confederate States that resupplying Fort Sumter would be an act of war. Lincoln resupplied the Fort anyway, thus provoking the War of Northern Aggression.
2] Don't put me in the same category as those who don't believe the Holocaust happened. I know it did based on various sources of reliable information.
3] The lynching argument is invalid as lynching did not only to blacks, it happened to people of any race if you were suspected of commiting a crime and the local population felt you were guilty. It also did not happen in just the south. Slavery was a legal practice authorized by the Constitution of 1787 and permitted by the governments of each state. It can be equated to the various Trusts from the early 20th century that extended credit to employees in order to get them in debt to the corporation so that they can never leave the company, isn't that just like slavery? Nothing is ever mentioned of that, I guess because that happened to a lot of people of a different ethnic persuasion thus they are not important. Beating was a common pratice of that time period for people of any walk of life. The British and American Navies used it for punishment. Criminals were whipped as well, it wasn't just slaves who felt the sting of a bullwhip or cat o' nine tails. Rape did not occur as often as the liberal media [this includes textbook manufacturers] would like you to think. Rape also means "to seize and carry off by force" [referring to being taken from Africa] and some instances where rape is used uses that meaning and has nothing to do with any sexual connotation.
4] "...watch as their master and his prospered.." This is a myth to think that plantation owners made large amounts of money. Most plantation owners barely made ends meet when it came to finances as they had loans that had to be paid.
5] Just an F.Y.I. some of my ancestors were poor antebellum farmers and were sharecroppers after the War of Northern Aggression. So my ancestors did in fact make due with what they could for food and they too lived in shacks.
6] How do you have a "true memory" of the Old South? Were you alive at that time?
7] PrettyNPearls: I resent that you implied I am not educated on this fact. Also were do you get your education from? Do you look at the primary documents and gain an education from that? Do you take what people tell you as fact without questioning the status quo?
8] How does a Confederate uniform represent an ugly past for blacks when free blacks in the south wore it? Do you pick and choose what is offensive or do you again allow others to dictate to you what you should find offensive based on biased information?
9] While my original post could have been worded better, all I was saying is that there could have been a better choice of words to be used in order to be P.C. about it. That's it, everyone else read into it and tried to imply any # of things which are not true. Think about this for a minute, if a NIC fraternity at your school had a quote on their website that stated "any white male interested in our chapter please contact us" or something to that effect, would you not be offended? Remember this is knowing they don't have any rules prohibiting males from other ethnic/cultural groups.
10] Your welcome for livening up your forum as it seems not many people were posting before my inital reply.
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