Why Do People Celebrate the Confederacy?

[IM2]

Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a cultural holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the Civil War to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers who died in military service.

It is an official state holiday in Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina; while it is commemorated in Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee.It was also formerly recognized in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia. For most states, the official date is or was April 26, when the last major Confederate field army surrendered at Bennett Place, North Carolina in 1865.

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Why do people remember this and celebrate it?

 

[Circe]

Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a cultural holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the Civil War to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers who died in military service.

It is an official state holiday in Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina; while it is commemorated in Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee.It was also formerly recognized in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia. For most states, the official date is or was April 26, when the last major Confederate field army surrendered at Bennett Place, North Carolina in 1865.

Confederate Memorial Day - Wikipedia

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Why do people remember this and celebrate it?

Because the South Will Rise Again -----

 

[Polishprince]

Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a cultural holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the Civil War to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers who died in military service.

It is an official state holiday in Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina; while it is commemorated in Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee.It was also formerly recognized in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia. For most states, the official date is or was April 26, when the last major Confederate field army surrendered at Bennett Place, North Carolina in 1865.

Confederate Memorial Day - Wikipedia

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Why do people remember this and celebrate it?

People celebrate it to remember their ancestors who lost their lives in the War of Northern Aggression and to put flowers on the graves of these heroes.

Just because the South lost the war doesn't mean that their war dead shouldn't be honored.

The Vietnam War was lost, yet they still have a monument in Washington DC.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Bill Clinton, Bobby Byrd, Joe Biden, all good ole boy democrat southern racists

 

[Augustine_]

Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a cultural holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the Civil War to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers who died in military service.

It is an official state holiday in Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina; while it is commemorated in Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee.It was also formerly recognized in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia. For most states, the official date is or was April 26, when the last major Confederate field army surrendered at Bennett Place, North Carolina in 1865.

Confederate Memorial Day - Wikipedia

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Why do people remember this and celebrate it?

Because those people hate America and think the confederacy was doing all the right things

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Why do people remember this and celebrate it?

Because FUCK BLACK PEOPLE. This is a white nation and you don't belong.

 

[MisterBeale]

Posting this thread in race relations? Is a primary reason why you do not get it.

Why don't you go back and study why folks argued, at the founding, between a strong central government, and letting those most affected by government control their own destinies.

Why don't you study why folks distrust and loath global institutions and corporations, versus small farms, small business, and local government.

The further business and government drift from the folks it serves, the more corruption and waste move into the system.

The war of northern aggression is no exception. The northern federal and global elites used the abolitionists and the slavery issues as an excuse to strip southern, and individual state sovereignty, and government schools have pushed that paradigm ever since.

If they had not, more than likely, within another few decades in the south, slavery would have become both financially and logistically untenable, and most states, more than likely, would have moved to integrate on their own. . . but who can say? No other industrialized part of the planet kept slavery, and all quit it peacefully.

. . . but now? Not only is the black man mentally and financially in debt to the oligarchy of this nation, but all the poor of this nation are mental and financial debt slaves.

No one has control over their destiny or has freedom any longer.


Just as the elites of this nation betrayed the reason we went to war for freedom when the put down the whiskey rebellion, so too, they betrayed the spirit of '76 when the Feds' invaded the south.

 

[MisterBeale]

IOW, one could make the reasoned argument, that. . . in the long run? The folks that were most hurt by the civil war, were going to be the very folks it claimed to help.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Posting this thread in race relations? Is a primary reason why you do not get it.

Why don't you go back and study why folks argued, at the founding, between a strong central government, and letting those most affected by government control their own destinies.

Why don't you study why folks distrust and loath global institutions and corporations, versus small farms, small business, and local government.

The further business and government drift from the folks it serves, the more corruption and waste move into the system.

The war of northern aggression is no exception. The northern federal and global elites used the abolitionists and the slavery issues as an excuse to strip southern, and individual state sovereignty, and government schools have pushed that paradigm ever since.

If they had no, more than likely, within another few decades in the south, slavery would have become both financially and logistically untenable, and most states, more than likely, would have moved to integrate on their own. . . but who can say? No other industrialized part of the planet kept slavery, and all quit it peacefully.

. . . but now? Not only is the black man mentally and financially in debt to the oligarchy of this nation, but all the poor of this nation are mental and financial debt slaves.

No one has control over their destiny or has freedom any longer.


Just as the elites of this nation betrayed the reason we went to war for freedom when the put down the whiskey rebellion, so too, they betrayed the spirit of '76 when the Feds' invaded the south.

Too much effort. He is only looking for a racist answer. Give him one.

We celebrate the enslavement of darkies!!! May it return soon.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

...forget the FACT that we Texans have an official holiday celebrating the end of slavery.



It's racist to honor those who did their duty.

 

[Jets]

It seems for many in the south the civil war never ended…

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

It seems for many in the south the civil war never ended…

It seems more so that nobody else wants to just leave it alone, so it stirs shit up again. Coincidence?

 

[Circe]

The Vietnam War was lost, yet they still have a monument in Washington DC.

Wow! Good point!

 

[Augustine_]

Why don't you go back and study why folks argued, at the founding, between a strong central government, and letting those most affected by government control their own destinies.

In the confederacy's case, their being affected by government not letting them continue enslaving people.

 

[theHawk]

History should remember how Democrats fought for slavery.

 

[Augustine_]

The Vietnam War was lost, yet they still have a monument in Washington DC.

The soldiers in Vietnam fought for America, not against it.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The Vietnam War was lost, yet they still have a monument in Washington DC.

The soldiers in Vietnam fought for America, not against it.

The confederate soldiers fought for Mexico, right? Or was it France?

 

[Augustine_]

The Vietnam War was lost, yet they still have a monument in Washington DC.

The soldiers in Vietnam fought for America, not against it.

The confederate soldiers fought for Mexico, right? Or was it France?

That's easy info to find. Look it up sometime.

 

[Polishprince]

It seems for many in the south the civil war never ended…

Actually, nowadays, it more the libs that refuse to let the Civil War go and want to continue to punish the South.

150 years after reconstruction and long after the death of all of the principals, they are hell bent on administering punishment to people like my Southern nephews and nieces whose ancestors were chilling in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1860's.

 

[MisterBeale]

Why don't you go back and study why folks argued, at the founding, between a strong central government, and letting those most affected by government control their own destinies.

In the confederacy's case, their being affected by government not letting them continue enslaving people.

Today. . . we all agree that slavery is backward and wrong.

There are many things that folks did back then that we feel are loathsome. Hell, no one batted an eye to have small children work fifty hours a week.

Raping women was no big deal. Folks were gunned down for cheating at cards.

It was a savage time.

The fact is, the individual states, according to law, had sovereignty to determine that sort of thing, within their own borders.

Likewise, if the Federal government was not going to uphold that right. . . which was agreed upon in the founding, it was the South's right to withdraw. The federal elites forced them to, and then invaded over it.


One of that nation's most notable abolitionists, Lysander Spooner abhorred slavery, and was one of the intellectuals that helped develop the Non-Aggression principle. It is, with out a doubt, uncontroversial that all human beings deserve dignity, respect, and sovereignty. . . and slavery is an aggression against their person, yes?

So, whose job is it to contest that aggression? The federal and global elites? Or the black man?

If the black man did not free himself at that point in history? Spooner knew, not only would the black man forever be slaves, but the nation too, would also be slaves to those who forced war on all of us.


The best course of action for the dedicated abolitionist, was to let the South go. . . Protest war for the horror and scam it is, and to support Northern underground railroad efforts, clandestine shipment of arms to black revolutionaries, and separatists, ect. But armed invasion? Nope, that clearly would have undermined the black man's struggle to change the culture in the south in the long run.

. . . and clearly? He was right. Now we just have the federal elites that oppress us all.