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The CONFEDERATE military was fully integrated in 1861, way ahead of the US military.

Moron Bob again has it ass backwards on who is rewriting history. That is the left, with outrages like the 1619 Project, whose inventor had to finally admit it was not real history.

Commented: Monday, October 28th, 2024 @ 9:42 am By: Conservative Voter

Moron Bob strikes again, displaying his total ignorance of history. Free blacks in the South in 1861 amounted to 20% of the black population in the South. In fact, there were more free blacks in the South than there were free blacks in the north. It is the free blacks who joined the Confederate army. Here in Beaufort County, we had two thriving communities of free blacks prior to the War Between the States, one at Keysville, north of Washington, and the other a community of free black small farmers east of Bath. There was a large shipyard on the Pamlico River at WAshington woned by a free black mam.

Commented: Monday, October 28th, 2024 @ 9:09 am By: Conservative Voter

Big Bob: How is "God stupid?"

Are you not elevating your worth to a far greater value than necessary in this, your opinion on "God."

Commented: Sunday, October 27th, 2024 @ 11:13 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The Confederate army WAS integrated. White and minority soldiers served together in the same units, and either could serve as officers. Blacks and other minorities in the Union army served in segregated regiments, black soliders led by white officers. You might want to watch the movie "Glory" which tells the story of one such Union regiment. The Confederate States Army was integrated in 1861 and it is sad that the United States army waited ninety years to do that.

Commented: Sunday, October 27th, 2024 @ 3:46 pm By: Conservative Voter

That would be the CONFEDERATE army, Bobbie, that first allowed black and other minority soldiers. There were black Confederate soldiers defending their country against the Union invasion beginning at the First Battle of Manassas. In fact, while the Union army, when they finally allowed black soldiers, only paid them half of what white soldiers were paid. The Confederate army paid minority soldiers the same as white soldiers. The Union army did not allow minority soliders to serve as commissioned officers, while the Confederate army did. In fact the highest ranking minority to serve in the war was Confederate General Stand Waite.

Commented: Sunday, October 27th, 2024 @ 2:54 pm By: Conservative Voter

So true. I think it all started when they let blacks in the military. Such a woke thing to do. Been downhill ever since.

You agree with me right Stan? I mean black men giving orders, commanding troops sending our men to their death. How much more woke can you get?

Commented: Sunday, October 27th, 2024 @ 11:02 am By: Big Bob

Right you are Buzz, DEI is proved to be an insane abomination, and there is no better example than the US Military under the Idiot President.

Commented: Sunday, October 27th, 2024 @ 9:56 am By: Stan Deatherage