Comments by Conservative Voter | Eastern NC Now

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

Your woke mind may see following true history as "weak" but to most thinking people it is honest. Instead of true history, Bobbie, you follow the talking points of the far left narrative. That is not being an individual at all. It is being a lemming.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:57 pm By: Conservative Voter

There Little Bobbie goes again with his Common Core math. Before, he claimed Jim Crow lasted 120 years, and now he is down at least to 100, but the correct factual answer is about 60 years. Jim Crow laws came in around the turn of the century across the south. North Carolina adopted its first one in the 1899 legislative session but most of them were in the 1901 session.

Those laws were motivated by the Democrats trying to regain control in some states or maintain control in others as white small farmers abandoned the Democrats in the mid 1890s over a feeling that the Democrats were the party of the wealthy special interests (hmmm, a lot like today) and abandoned it for the new Populist Party. The Populists then ran a fusion campaign with the Republicans. The Democrats responded with a white supremacy strategy to divid those white small farmers from the Republicans, and keyed in on the fact that most blacks of that era voted Republican. The Democrats did not wake up one morning and decide they hated blacks. Instead, it was a matter of political strategy to recapture the white small farmer vote from the Populists who were allied to the Republicans.

I do not condone what the Democrats did. My own party, the Republicans voted against all those Jim Crow laws when the Democrats put them through the legislature and I would have joined them if I were living in those times. But I do recognize that rather than being inherently racist, the Democrats of that period decided that pushing racism and white supremacy was a winning political strategy for them to recapture the white farmer vote they had lost to the Populists. There cynical use of the race card in those times for political purposes is as evil as the way the Democrats do it now with DEI.

The looting, arson, rape, and murder of white and black Southern civilians by Sherman, Sheridan, and Stoneman, not only violated the Geneva Convention of 1863 but also violated the Common Law of War as those officers and others had been taught at West Point. Sherman's idea of "total war" was not much different from the Serbs in Bosnia. What Sherman did was a war crime by today's standards and also by the standards of his own period.

FIghting for southern indepdence was NOT a sin, but vicious attacks on our history IS totalitarian.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 1:49 pm By: Conservative Voter

I was listening to Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor in New York City today. He has been following all the proceedings of the Trump prosecution by Alvin Bragg and Juan Merchan. He cited several really off the wall evidentiary rulings by Judge Merchan that were against "black letter law" (very well settled principles of law) both in restricting evidence and witnesses on behalf of Trump and allowing Bragg's witnesses to testify to things they should not. This judge's extreme political bias just keeps getting worse. This trial is a mockery of justice in so many ways.

Commented: Monday, April 29th, 2024 @ 1:49 pm By: Conservative Voter

In a political witch hunt like the one by Biden against Trump, levels of wealth are irrelevant and a red herring. The political prosecutions / persecutions against Trump are no different than the Stalin Show Trials and no different than Putin's trumped up criminal charges against a number of his political opponents. Biden is America's Putin and he is a big threat to our democracy.

Commented: Sunday, April 28th, 2024 @ 8:11 am By: Conservative Voter

Biden does nothing about the pro-terrorist insurrection going on at our college campuses

Commented: Friday, April 26th, 2024 @ 4:52 pm By: Conservative Voter

If you think that historical timeline equals 120 years, Little Bobbie, you must be using Common Core Math where two plus two can equal anything you want it to be. Your number about doubles the actual timeline.

Jim Crow DID very much know a party and it was the Democrat Party. When North Carolina passed its Jim Crow laws in 1899 and 1901, all the Democrats voted for them and all the Republicans and Populists voted against them. That is pretty darn clear cut.

DEI is the notions that people should be treated as members of groups instead of individuals, that equality of opportunity should be replaced by equality of result, and that everyone should be treated as "oppressed" or an "oppresser" based on things that happened before they were even born. These notions are purely Marxist and entirely un-American.

Surrendering to this Marxist crap is a lose - lose for everyone except the progressive ideologues trying to control us.

Commented: Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 @ 11:37 am By: Conservative Voter

It is just common sense that a business like Sheetz would not want convicted criminals working for them. If the crime was some type of stealing, they would not want criminal employees stealing from them. If the crime was some type of assault or sexual assault, they would want to protect their customers and other employees from that behavior. If it was some type of dreug use, they would not want employees stoned on the job. The list could go on.

Commented: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 @ 7:53 am By: Conservative Voter

The only one here I see who clearly either can't read or does not understand English is Little Bobbie. One does not go to their doctor for public policy advice.

Commented: Sunday, April 21st, 2024 @ 7:33 am By: Conservative Voter

What is sick is this totalitarian political witch hunt and the abuse of our judicial system to carry it out. The liklihood that this is an all-Democrat jury is being covered up by a crooked judge.

Commented: Saturday, April 20th, 2024 @ 8:31 am By: Conservative Voter

I notice they keep covering up the political party membership of the jurors, which is extremely relevant in a political case like this one as to whether the jury is fair or not. I have a gut feeling that this is likely because it is an all-Democrat jury. That would more be a lynch mob than a jury.

Commented: Friday, April 19th, 2024 @ 5:11 pm By: Conservative Voter

The First Amendment is a RIGHT, not a "challenge". Bobbie, you are a known opponent of free speech, who, for example supports the "hate speech" scam to suppress free speech.

Commented: Friday, April 19th, 2024 @ 8:52 am By: Conservative Voter

What this school administration did to this student was pure evil and those responsible should be fired. Apparently, an illegal alien boy threatened to attack this kid, and it is that threat that should be punished.

Commented: Thursday, April 18th, 2024 @ 10:19 am By: Conservative Voter

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is another of these crooked political hack Soros DA's. Soros bought his position for him with big bucks and he is bought and paid for by the far left. Bragg spends his time on a political witch hunt against Donald Trump while he lets real criminals go free and sometimes even tries to punish crime victims as he tried to do with that Bodega clerk who had to kill a criminal who was attacking him with deadly force.

Commented: Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 @ 9:39 am By: Conservative Voter

Let me give Bonehead Bob a leftwing source and see if that will stop his anti-history ranting. Bobbie has posted that PBS is a source he trusts. PBS has always been regarded as a liberal source, but thanks to a recent whitleblower, it can now be deemed a far-left source. Well, here is a PBS article that admits the reality of 261,000+ free blacks in the South in 1860:
www.pbs.org

Bonehead Bob just preaches the far left narrative. Facts to him are irrelevant. So, will Bobbie now call PBS the KKK? Maybe claim th black writer of that PBS article is a secret klansman who goes around wearing a sheet and burning crosses? What little bit of credibility Bobbie may have once possessed, and that was not very much, is now gone completely. Maybe he should learn that when you are in a hole, it is time to stop digging.

Commented: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 @ 8:36 am By: Conservative Voter

The facts don't fit your narrative, so you turn to personal attacks, Little Bobbie? Maybe it is time to study some real history instead of the far left narrative you constantly parrot. You might even start with that book by Frederick Douglass, who you apparently did not even know who he was. The only racist on this board is you, Little Bobbie with your racist anti-white views. You want to sweep the free blacks of the antebellum south under the rug because they are inconvenient to your far left political narrative. We southerners celebrate all people of the south, and therefore reject your stereotyping.

Commented: Sunday, April 14th, 2024 @ 6:17 pm By: Conservative Voter

Either you can't read or are ignorant of history, Bobbie. The words you get your panties in such a twist over were written in 1861 by a very prominent black historical figure, Frederick Douglass and he uses terms that were common and non-controversial at the time. Maybe you should read Douglass' autobiography, which I have, an enlightening account of being born into slavery, escaping, teaching himself to read, and becoming a top leader of the abolitionist movement. Douglass wrote of blacks serving as soldiers in the Confederate army in addition to cooks.

And you seem not to know the difference between a free black and a slave. In the South in 1861, 20% of blacks were free blacks and indeed, 10% of free blacks owned slaves themselves.

While the quote from Douglass uses the "colored people" term, it is not one that I use myself. However, a virtually identical term "people of color" is currently in wide use by the left today.

Commented: Saturday, April 13th, 2024 @ 6:17 pm By: Conservative Voter