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Jim Crow is not inherited guilt. We did that.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 9:42 am By: Big Bob

The effort opposing the Hillsdale program originated from Cheesman an the liberal faction of thee school board. We are a free country. Anyone can request changes in legislation and new legislation. It is the woke activists (Cheesman and his activist buddies on the school board) who oppose this legislation.

Setting the record straight, Cheesman and the board have been offered the Hillsdale program for more than three years. His comments in the article published in the Washington Daily News are intended to mislead. Cheesman knows all about the Hillsdale studies. That is why liberals like him are opposed to it.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 6:14 am By: Hood Richardson

inherited racial guilt is the nonsense spewed by CRT. A modern person is NOT a victim or an opporessor based on what happened 200 years ago. That nonsense was concocted by Marxists for the purpose of creating divisions in society that the far left could then exploit.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 6:27 am By: Conservative Voter

Try as we might, We can absolve the sins of our fathers, by ignoring our own.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 11:42 pm By: Big Bob

Not everyone who disagrees with you is a Marxist, but I get why you say that.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 6:13 pm By: Big Bob

Bolshevik Bob is taking the same position on destroying historic monuments that was taken by ISIS, the Taliban, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. He is a fellow traveller with all of those cancel culture tyrants.

Confederae mounuments were erected at the same interval after the war as the Union monuments, and inded a similar interval as World War I and World War II monuments. And who is it that has been making major attacks on monuments here? The Marxist BLM organization, that's who. BLM has been attacking historical monuments all over the world..

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 3:46 pm By: Conservative Voter

Thanks for the history lesson John.

The exploits of Robert E. Lee is of conventional legend.

The truth of who Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was, at his core, is possibly a far more interesting story. If not for the accidental friendly fire felling of the inspiring and brilliant general at Chancellorsville, the War Between the States probably would have turned out far differently, and one can only wonder what this unified Republic would have become.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 2:58 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Just an observation. And accurate to boot.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 1:25 pm By: Big Bob

The Biden regime imposing your Climate Scientology religious cult on our country is impairing the quality of life of the rest of us. Biden is making Climate Scientology a state religion.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

There is one other inconvenient fact for the postwar northern narrative about the war being fought over slavery. That has to do with the position of key generals on that issue. If the narrative were correct, one would expect the northern generals to be anti-slavery and the southern generals pro-slavery. Thus it does not fit that when Grant and Lee met at Appamattox, it was Grant, not Lee, who was the slave owner.

Grant and his wife Julia owned slaves which were in Kentucky, a state still in the Union and not under the Emancipation Proclamation and continued to own them until December 1865, months after the war ended, when the Grant family slaves were finally freed by the 13th Amendment. In 1861, Grant wrote a letter to a close friend in which he emphatically stated that the only reason for the war was preserving the union, and that if the politicians tried to make it about anything else like ending slavery, he might switch sides and fight for the south.

Robert E. Lee, on the other hand, freed the hundreds of slaves he inherited from his father in law as soon as that estate was settled. In 1859, Lee wrote that" slavery is an institution of moral and political evil".

And if you then look at the second best known generals, that pattern holds.

Sherman never had enough money to own slaves, but it is documented that when he was stationed at Fort Moultrie, Sherman rented a slave. Also when he was hired to run Louisians's state military academy, he wrote a letter to send for his wife who was with her parents at the time and advised her that she should buy a slave when she arrived. His wife's family had more money than Sherman himself.

On the other hand, Stonewall Jackson never owned slaves, and prior to the war, when he was an professor at VMI, he started and personnally conducted a program run through his church to teach blacks, both free and slave, to read and write. It was probably the first black literacy program ever conducted in the south. After he went into the Confederate army, Jackson sent part of every military paycheck home to keep that program running.

And Bobbie, don't try to deflect again with your "whataboutism" (a leftist term you should know well). This thread is about monuments to military heroes.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 9:50 am By: John Steed

If I was the Devil I would be running from Keith Kidwell.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 8:59 am By: Browny Douglas