Once again our annual exercise in institutional racism is here again. That's right, Black History month is upon us.
Guess we're in for 28 days of reminders of how screwed up our Grandfathers were toward African-Americans.
One would think that now that we have elected a black POTUS we can move on. Truth is what we have witnessed is a worsening of race relations the last two years, not an improvement. So if this what we can expect every time we try to reconcile with those who hate us, and receive even more hatred for our efforts, why bother?
I'm just asking
"Guess we're in for 28 days of reminders of how screwed up our Grandfathers were toward African-Americans."
"Right, mudwhistle, it doesn't seem to matter to the haters, that a great and depressed president was shot and killed because of his efforts to help end slavery." Aqua*
-- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, From His First Inaugural Address.
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
-- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, From His First Inaugural Address.
More than three million men fought in the Civil War about 900,000 for the Confederacy and 2.1 million for the Union.
An estimated 300 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the ranks.
More than 620,000 people, or two percent of the population, died in the Civil War.
Approximately 6,000 battles, skirmishes, and engagements were fought during the Civil War.
There were over 2,000 boys who were 14 years-old or younger in the Union ranks. Three hundred were 13 years or less, while there were 200,000 no older than 16 years.
At the Battle of Shiloh, on the banks of the Tennessee River, more Americans fell than in all previous American wars combined. There were 23,700 casualties.
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