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Ammonitida posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

lightwarrior78 posted...

You get the same thing with native Americans and the Washington redskins. It's pretty far down the list of issues they'd like addressed to the point of it looking like a rich white person's attempt to do the easiest good they can rather than address more pressing problems.

"Black people don't care about so it's ok.."....huh? The point is as a country the history of a group of men attempting to leave the United States and having slavery be one of the major factors in their reasoning is not one that should be celebrated. It's historic. It should be talked about. I don't think those people should be put on a pedestal, however.

It's a slippery slope that has people concerned (including the President). Many of the founding fathers were slave owners and overtly racist. One may have had sex with his slaves (Jefferson, although this has not been 100% established). There are frequent calls to remove monuments to these people. Al Sharpton talked about defunding the Jefferson memorial and placing it in a museum (lol).

http://canadafreepress.com/article/sharpton-targets-the-jefferson-memorial

Yea they were slave owners. Did they actively fight to leave the United States over it? During the civil rights movement it was just "the way of the time" that people considered African Americans inferior. Should we celebrate those in time that actively fought to keep them from getting equal rights just because "that's the way it was at the time"?

Nothing the confederacy did is worth celebrating today. It's worth remembering for historical reasons. Not celebrating and cheering.

When we celebrate Thomas Jefferson it's not about him owning slaves. When we celebrate confederacy soldiers it's about a war they fought in. One where they fought to leave the country. Why celebrate that?