A miniscule number of brainwashed captives fought for their captors. Some had to be forced and threatened, some did not.
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No, I full well know she is gay/bisexual and has conned herself into thinking that being black is a secondary identity to her - she’s even gone as far as to say, “I’m an American, and that’s a colorless person” which is a naive notion and a false one because this country and society is based on racial classifications…
Holy Hell I thought the laser show thing was a joke, and then I saw it mentioned elsewhere, and then I Googled, and what in the actual love of Ms. Frizzle did I just see?
This article is made 683% better because of Hamilton: The Musical
They know.
They absolutely do. That’s why they’re so angry about this. Their monument is meant to celebrate treason and racism, and they are deeply offended at the idea of the people they are racist against being celebrated.
Oh, come on! You don’t think Georgia’s Declaration of Secession is completely about slavery or anything, do you?
Sooo their counter-argument is that it would be just as insulting to fly a confederate flag at the MLK Center in Atlanta...Isn’t that them basically admitting that this isn’t about pride or history, and really it is about racism? In their own statement, they say that celebrating confederate history is diametrically…
I had a high school teacher who spent weeks drilling into us that the civil war wasn’t about slavery, it was about state rights and the issue of slavery just fell under that umbrella. And I truly honestly believed that for actual years.
When are they going to do this tho
Sure there were... the ones that defected to the Union and brought intel with them.
How about a gigantic plaque saying “The sentiments expressed in this monument do not represent the views of Stone Mountain Park, its employees, or its affiliates?”
What? You didn’t learn about Michael Lucas King’s famous “I Dreamed Something Last Night and You Guys Won’t Believe How Crazy It Was!” speech in school?
There are no Confederate heroes — there are only varying degrees of traitor.
They understand.
No no no, see, it’s about the time honored tradition of state’s rights.
Do these yahoos understand they’re celebrating treason and owning other people? Has that not sunk in yet?
stone mountain, it should be noted, is completely fucking bananas