7 thoughts on “Demonstrate to a Southerner that the Civil War was About Slavery, and See How Fast the Subject is Changed to Welfare Cheats”
[Kevin] Levin pointed to the words of Confederates themselves, particularly Texas’ Ordinance of Secession. The document, which officially separated Texas from the Union in 1861, declared that African-Americans were “rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race.” It says that Texas seceded because non-slave-holding states “demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the Confederacy.” The document does not mention tariffs or any state right other than the right to own black people.
[Jim Toungate, the adjutant of the Williamson County chapter of the Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans] waved off the document when I showed it to him later. “People have a distorted view of the Confederacy because liberal Northern historians wrote the history books,” he insisted. But these are primary sources, I noted, the words of the Confederates themselves. Toungate went silent for a beat, and then changed the subject. “I’m sick of the federal government wasting money,” he said, and “people living off welfare.”
“I had five grandfathers who fought for the Confederacy, and they were religious people who didn’t treat black people badly,” Toungate said, earnestly, his Southern drawl growing thicker as he spoke. “They were fighting for states’ rights, not slavery.” According to Toungate, before secession, the federal government mistreated Southern states by issuing unfair tariffs.
Yeah, they were fighting for a state's right to keep slavery legal. Fuck that noise.
“Thirty thousand blacks fought for the Confederacy because they loved their masters,” Toungate argued, offering the fact as proof that “slavery could not have caused the war.”
Sure, because it's not as if any of them might have done so under duress, the false hope that they might be freed afterwards as a reward, because they did't see a realistic escape route, or a thousand other more plausible explanations FFS…
The idea that slaves fought for the traitors? |Bogus.|
In fact they fled to Union lines at the first opportunity, as who would not?
Also too, Union soldiers were horrified and appalled to see the brutality of slavery first hand, and many of those who at the outset were skeptical about the rightness of their cause came to believe in it fully when they saw the evil they were opposing in the fight.
Yeah, they were fighting for a state's right to keep slavery legal. Fuck that noise.
Sure, because it's not as if any of them might have done so under duress, the false hope that they might be freed afterwards as a reward, because they did't see a realistic escape route, or a thousand other more plausible explanations FFS…
The idea that slaves fought for the traitors? |Bogus.|
In fact they fled to Union lines at the first opportunity, as who would not?
Also too, Union soldiers were horrified and appalled to see the brutality of slavery first hand, and many of those who at the outset were skeptical about the rightness of their cause came to believe in it fully when they saw the evil they were opposing in the fight.
correct- all that apologism is bullshit. Slaves ran the first chance they got
Hillary and Obama created the terrorist traitorist Confederacy.
Bamz founded the Confederacy, he's their MVP!
WAS IT OVER WHEN THE KENYANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?