Fair points as usual.

Don't you remember when people asked you to consider the Beltway Snipers side of the story?

And hate. Fear and hate

Yup

Look at his personal history and you'll see he's a white supremacist

The America of those days was even more openly bigoted and had both de facto and de jure segregation. Hell, it was 20 years away from The KKK being a legit second party in most states

Why hasn't Trump is the real question

These groups engage in and promote violence, do they not?

I'm a pragmatic centrist, who just so happens to hate people who lionize traitors and slavery-apologists

How is this not terrorism?

Nope. His dad was killed in a car accident when he was a child, so not really

We fund colleges named after them and allow monuments to be erected in their names

My bad. A bit touchy today. Sorry

I was a young man when it happened and it was scary as fuck

Or that the treaties that were signed were ever followed

True, true

Booyah!

You can choose. It's only cool with me and I think it makes the same point just to reject whiteness

Excellent point

a. They could have fled or refused to fight.
b. No, Radical Reconstruction was the right choice. The South needed to be burned down to the root and rebuilt along the lines of The Union. All property ought to have been confiscated and redistributed to the freedmen.