Why Do People Celebrate the Confederacy?

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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.

Secession is still an option. You don't even have to defend enslaving human beings to fight for it. I can think of several states I wouldn't mind letting go.

It is? Excellent. Which ones?

 

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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?

Why do you hate freedom and support the Democratic party of slavery that oppresses you?

Personally, I celebrate freedom. I'm as free as a bird. You're a caged racist idiot.

Wrong. I'm free and the republican party is the one defending the confederacy. So you are supporting those who wanted to expand slavery and you are a member of the party that tried making slavery constitutional.

I must admit, that was a very retarded retort, retard.