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There is no "white history" or "black history". There is simply only history.

Confederate history is also the history of many ethnic groups, like the highest ranking minority to serve in the war on either side, Confederate General Stand Watie, whose statue has been attacked by BLM/ANTIFA thugs. I would point out that the Yankees, in contrast, did not even let minorities serve as officers at any rank. Confederate heroes who distinguished themselves in battle include Moses Dallas, a black Confederate naval officer, who was instrumental in planning and helped lead one of the most daring exploits of the war, the capture of the Union warship USS Waterwitch while she was on blockade duty off Savannah in a surprise nighttime attack boarding from small boats. When the far left tries to cancel Confederate history, people like Watie and Dallas are among those they cancel.

That is also true of Confederate political history, where Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana became the first person of the Jewish religion to hold cabinet rank in a government this side of the Atlantic. Benjamin served in the cabinet of President Jefferson Davis throughout the war, successively as Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Secretary of War.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 12:25 pm By: Conservative Voter

We should never forget that it was RINO Greg Murphy who voted for the bill that led to this Maoist Cultural Revolution style attack on our history, including making Fort Bragg no longer Fort Bragg. "Cancel culture" Murphy needs to GO.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 11:54 am By: Rino Hunter

The modern-day cultural revolution purge going on throughout all of western civilization must end. Rational people must stand up and stop this insanity.

History is a rich tapestry of human stories. Totalitarian attempts to sanitize it to their own standards or to cancel it entirely only destroy it. When we stop building on our history, we stop enriching our culture. We ultimately commit cultural suicide.

This attack on West Point history and tradition is awful. People are now even considering taking down reconciliation monuments. Think about what that means.

Lately, in many countries people have destroyed monuments to James Cook of all people. Cook mapped more of the world than anyone. His voyages catalogued thousands of plants and animals and contributed greatly to mankind. During our own war for independence against Britian, Benjamin Franklin wrote to captains of colonial warships, recommending that if they came into contact with Cook's vessel (a British vessel), they were to "not consider her an enemy, nor suffer any plunder to be made of the effects contained in her...but that they treat the said Captain Cook with all the civility and kindness...as common friends to mankind."

Cook's work was that important to the human race, and he gave his life to make those contributions. Now in today's hate filled world, he is made to be a supposed villain to be erased from history.

As for me, no thank you to that totalitarian nightmarish vision of the world. Madness such as this must be opposed.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 10:10 am By: Charles Hickman

The white male president in the 1950's admired Robert E Lee. A real shocker.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:48 am By: Big Bob

How can you possibly forget that up until the 1950's the hiring preference in this country favored white men? Every idiot knows this to be true. I notice you often twist up the smallest of details to in an effort to justify your own ignorance while completely missing the point.

Unlike salvery - Jim Crow is on us.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:42 am By: Big Bob

CV- I have zero respect for you.
go shoot a dog

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:01 pm By: Big Bob

No, it started in 1776 when only white men could get a paid job. Good lord. What a stuipis post.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 8:40 pm By: Big Bob

IDK- the 'grab them by the junk in chief' strikes me as an idiot. How any woman could vote for that guy is beyond me.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:04 pm By: Big Bob

The backgrounds of some of the judges who have failed to recuse themselves from some of these cases really should raise peoples eyebrows. One of the ethics standards in law is to "avoid even the appearance of impropriety". There has been a lot of well targeted comment about the judges in the New York cases, but the judge in the Georgia case was a political contributor to Fani Willis' political campaign, as was the judges wife. While that might be a borderline conflict of interest on his hearing the overall case, I was appalled that he heard the motion to remove her from the case, where it was a much more blatant conflict of interes. Of course, he ruled in her favor on that one. Willis is currently facing a primary challenge, and it weems to me a judge from outside the district should have been called in to hear that motion, not have it go it front of one of her campaign contributors wearing a black robe.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:04 am By: Steven P. Rader

It is good to see that Europeans follow science on gender, unlike Biden who follows wokeness.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 7:02 am By: Rino Hunter

President Dwight Eisenhower proudly displayed a portrait of General Robert E. Lee in the Oval Office at the White House his entire presidency. In his own words, here is why Eisenhower so respected General Lee:

"General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.

From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.

Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall."

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:09 pm By: John Steed