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Are you more pissed at the gadfly or the outcome of the end of slavery?How about we all agree that most of the people who fought in the civil war DID NOT JOIN UP BECAUSE OF SOME SORT OF NOBLE MOTIVATION TO FREE BLACK SLAVES. --------I am willing. Long ago----some idiot
southern Baptist told me that americans joined the military
during world war II----for the PURPOSE OF SAVING DA JOOOS. NOPE----same stupidity
Finally some sense. As one who attended elementary school many decades prior to the information age, when everything was taught from outdated history books that by design excluded the accomplishments of most minorities, one of the first lies that I remember being taught in the 3rd grade was that the "Great Emancipator" really cared about the condition of the poor slaves, and made it his mission to set them free. Therefore all black people owed a debt of gratitude for his heroic, humanitarian deed."
When I repeated that lie to my parents they promptly sat me down and told me the real truth.
That truth is simple, and supporting evidence regarding true beliefs is out there for anyone who possesses the mental acuity to read and comprehend actual facts as opposed urban legends.
The common, uneducated, gullible explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery, when in fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. It was primarily about business.
Had Lincoln lived, he would have relocated the slaves out of America, after they were supposedly "free", exactly as some of the retarded Stormfront groupies here say he should have.
Actually I am.not pissed about anything. I just prefer accurate accounts of history.