A BLACK MANS VIEW ON THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS Update pg6

remember this all the people in those monuments were democrats

From what I have learned, it seems that history is misinterpreted by both sides.

The Republican Party was established on an abolitionists platform. So, yes, slavery WAS a major issue.

Now, I don't believe that the party intended to go to war over the issue. It was like any other legal platform issue--to be debated and hopefully changed over time through the legislature. Once the south separated, though, it became another issue that WOULD be resolved through hostilities.

So, it is not true to say Lincoln didn't care about slavery. It is also true, though, that he never intended to free the slaves through proclamation (unconstitutionally), before hostilities started. People point to quotes from Lincoln to this affect as proof he didn't care. Not true. The main purpose of his party was abolition. The original intent was to work constitutionally through the Congress, so you will find quotes (tailored to his audience, like any other politician) promising to not immediately end slavery.

Another point that shows slavery as an issue in the Civil War was from the Southern States' own documents. I don't know about ALL of them, but I have read the Virginia articles of secession, and for sure they DID enunciate legal slavery as a specific reason for secession. Most people who say that slavery "wasn't even why the war started" are not exactly right. The South felt threatened by the Republican platform.

Yes to the issue of taxation v representation, which you stated. The Democrats misrepresent this part of the history, also, though. Part of what they preach to crowds of SJWs is that blacks were "only 3/5 of a man," so the Constitution is evil. That sounds horrible, and so elicits a response. The truth is, the South was trying to argue for more legislative representation based on their population plus the population of their slaves, while in actuality treating their slaves as property with no rights at all.

Just like democrats, this is of course gaming the system. Either your slaves are men with rights who are due representation, or they are property. You can't have it both ways. So the only reason the 3/5 rule exists is because of Democrats. It was a compromise.

Yes to the issue of wealth and money. Southern "aristocrats" were advantaged by slavery--thus lived like kings; while northern business owners paid all of their help, thus couldn't compete in many areas. It only seemed fair to them that the 1% who had the advantage of owning slaves should be taxed on the labor of those slaves in the same way that northern workers had to pay taxes.

I would remind people who decry the founders for owning slaves, that the slavery debate did take place at the Constitutional Convention. The main reason abolition was not written into the Constitution was because the 1st priority in 1776 was to create the Union. All of the southern states would not have signed on with abolition, so it wasn't included.

The Founding Fathers were wise enough though, to include language in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution which would give Abraham Lincoln the confidence in his moral authority to free our people almost 100 years later. Don't expect the Marxist universities to teach this.

Another interesting note about Abraham Lincoln--I believe the reason he was murdered was because he planned to get rid of the central banks and return our right to issue currency to the legislature, where it Constitutionally belongs. This is also a freedom issue.

Someone earlier stated that slaves who fought for the South did so because they understood the issues. I don't buy this. They were there because they were serving with their masters. Freed and runaway slaves went North to fight, not south. Even the whites in the south didn't understand the issues. They fought because they were taught from birth that they were superior--and that the north wanted to give black men jobs that they didn't even have.

The United States was not the first country to outlaw slavery, but we are the only nation to ever fight a war to end it. It was one of the bloodiest wars ever fought, with 500,000 dead Americans--too keep the Union together and YES, to free the slaves once and for all. It is a crime that schools today would rather foment a Marxist revolution than teach history the way that it really happened.

This history is so unique, that it isn't just American history. It is world history, also, and should be treated as such. It is a crime to destroy artifacts that remind us of the agonies as well as the riteousness of our pasts. We should look at who benefits by erasing this history--if the world forgets, it will be repeated.

Thanks for the post. I love this subject! Gave me a chance to rant.

I had a talk with a 50 year old , ghetto type Black guy a work today , he cleans the shop

Here goes

I said
Say bro what you think about the whole racist monuments things ( I was trying to bait him into a argument .

Funny thing is he said he is upset that they wanna remove statues and it doesn't change the fact that it's still history and that it happened and there isn't anything anyone can change that.

That was shocking because this guy told me a few times that he wasn't permitted to do things at work cuz he is black ect ect race card puller

And this dude is a pos ghetto type
7 kids by 6 baby mamas and didn't get a job until 31y/o
Has big ass rims on a 2001 f150

Where are the blacks that are really pissed ? Or is this all BS