Quote:Gee, can't imagine why black people might find the confederate flag offensive because the south wanted to keep slavery (which according to the VP of the Confederacy was the 'proper status of the negro').   Don't they know that the civil war was all about state's rights (particularly the right to own slaves, but I digress!)  Why the confederacy was an honorable group who... fought against.. .us, in the civil war.  To you know... keep slavery.  Yeah, can't imagine that at all.  They're being too politically correct about this.

There was slavery in the north too. Also, Lincoln stated in the fourth debate with Douglas that:

 

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”-Abraham Lincoln 1858.

 

http://www.bartleby.com/251/41.html

 

 

Just saying'

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