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There is a clear double standard in our "justice" system when Democrats can drum up Stalin Show Trials in four places against their top political enemy, but genuine criminal scandals of their own leaders are swept under the rug. Democracy is dead in America unless that stops real soon.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 9:06 am By: Conservative Voter

I quit using Google a few years ago. Brave is my go too.

Commented: Saturday, August 26th, 2023 @ 7:31 am By: PK

Your ignorance knows no bounds, Bolshevik Bob. Twenty percent of southern blacks in 1861 were free blacks, and ten percent of free blacks owned slaves themsellves. Indeed the percentage of slave ownership was somewhat higher among free blacks than among southern whites. In Beaufort County, there were two main communities of free blacks in 1861, Keysville, north of Washington, and a farming area of small farms east of Bath. Some were quite succesful in beuiness such as the free black man who owned a shipyard on the Washington waterfront. You are the one putting black people down by writing them off as all being slaves. They weren't.

A remember an article in Confederate Veteran magazine some years ago profiling one black Confederate hero, Moses Dallas, who prior to the war had been a free black man with a lucrative and challenging occupation as a river pilot guiding ships in and out of the port of Savannah. When the War Between the States came, Dallas enlisted in the Confederate navy and received an officer's commission. He was serving on the ironclad CSS Savannah, flagship of the Savannah squadron, when he and other officers on that warship decided to take the battle to the yankee blackade in an unconventinal way. With his detailed knowledge of the river and estuary, Dallas was one of the principle planners. They picked out a yankee warship on blockade duty, the USS Waterwitch, and romwed out in three small boats, boarding and capturing it in a surprise night time attack. It was the only capture of an enemy warship by boarding from small boats in the whole course of the war. Unfortunately, Dallas, who commanded one of the boats was killed in action before the ship was subdued.

Since regiments were organized on both sides by states rather than national governments, policies on free blacks serveing in the Confederate army varied somewhat by state. One very unfortunate example was in Louisiana, where the free black community organized a regiment for Confederate service when the war broke out but were turned down by the state government. Insulted by that rejection, after the nankees captured New Orleans, they offered their regiment to the north, which accepted their service.

Your narrative is not based on history. It is based on ideoloy, Bolshevik Bob, and it is totally ignorant.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 6:43 pm By: John Steed

Enslaved people cannot consent to anything. Black confederate solders (if they existed and for the sake of argument lets say yes) were indeed not acting by free will. That argument doesn't hold water.
Neither does the other point you make about how most white southerners were all about the "war between the states", and slavery wasn't a big deal. Total BS. Proof? 100 years of Jim Crow. And that's not history. We lived it and did it.
Some are attempting to do it again by white washing history.
Man up and do the right thing.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm By: Big Bob

Talk about a double standard. Fani Willis has never charged Stacey Abrams for her repeated claims of election fraud and that she really won the 2018 Georgia governor's race, or the many Democrats who joined in that claim. Abrams is right there in Georgia, but she is a Democrat, and in the corrupt Democrat "justice" system there are very different rules for Democrats than Republicans. Fani Willis is a disgrace who is abusing her office for a political hit job. She needs, at a minimum to be removed from office.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 2:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Stan, I know that you serve with Randy Walker and he is your friend, but he badly let us down when he went along with cancel culture against our ancestors. Walker has lost any chance of my vote when he joined the cancel culture mob on this one.

I hope there is a Libertarian or Constitution Party candidate against Murphy, so I will have someone to vote for. Otherwise, I will just skip that race. He lets us down over and voer again. I so wish we still had Walter Jones. He was great.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 11:00 am By: Rino Hunter

These monuments honor the black Confederate soldiers as well as the white ones, and tearing them down is just wrong. The war pension rolls of southern states show that many black southerners received military pensions for their service in the War Bewteen the States. I remember SCV members making posters in a dispute over a monument showing photos of black Confederate soliders in uniform with the caption "These Black Lives Mattered".

Then there is the famour letter to Lincoln by prominent abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass in September 1861 after the yankees were whipped at First Manassass urging Lincoldn to allow recruitment of black soldiers in the Union army, in which he wrote: "It is now pretty well established, that there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels. There were such soldiers at Manassas, and they are probably there still."

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 8:50 am By: John Steed

It's important to remember that the Alington Confederate Memorial was erected as an act of reconciliation. Our present time of cancel culture cares little for that.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 7:09 am By: Charles Hickman

Stan - It's true that McConnell worked to keep Garland off the Supreme Court. It is also true that Mitch McConnell voted to confirm Merrick Garland for Attorney General. Among the several Republicans joining McConnell in confirming Garland were North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr. Before the vote of the Senate body Tillis also voted on the Senate Judiciary Committee for a favorable recommendation.

Such is the precarious situation of our doctrine of equal justice under law. Presently, the tenets of our civilization are not being defended. That is a sobering reality.

Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 7:04 am By: Charles Hickman

I disagree. Men like HR are valuable because they have experienced life and have acquired wisdom. That said, BC Board of Commissioners does not need another HR. One is enough.

Commented: Thursday, August 24th, 2023 @ 7:26 pm By: Big Bob

Maybe he thinks pandering to an insurrection against the US government to preserve a way of life that included owning people as one owns property should not be celebrated at the taxpayers expense? Especially when some of those taxpayers are direct decedents of slaves. Just sayin

Commented: Thursday, August 24th, 2023 @ 3:38 pm By: Big Bob