Mississippi governor declares April as Confederate Heritage month

That butt head needs to watch the movie"Free State of Jones" It tells the true story that the Confederacy was fighting for the rich Slave owners and how his state (MS.) started Jim Crow type voting suppression. Long, but very good historical film!

Um, you are aware that this is nothing new, right? It's been around for a while. And despite living on the Georgia/Alabama border, I have not seen a single TV commercial advertising it yet and it's already the middle of the month. Contrast that with the non-stop commercials reminding me it was Black History Month during February and Women's History Month in March. No reason to get your panties in a knot over it.

My condolences on your location.

Georgia resident wrote:

“Um, you are aware that [slavery] is nothing new, right? It's been around for a while. ..No reason to get your panties in a knot over it.”

~Jefferson Finis Davis

If Mississippi is so awful, why do so many blacks still live there? The same goes for the rest of the south. They are all free to leave any time they wish.

Speed over 60 wrote:

That butt head needs to watch the movie"Free State of Jones" It tells the true story that the Confederacy was fighting for the rich Slave owners and how his state (MS.) started Jim Crow type voting suppression. Long, but very good historical film!

I wish people really understood why the Confederacy went to war. It was not over slavery. There were still slaves in the north when the war started. Those northern slaves were still slaves when the war ended.

It's pathetic and will only inspire another holiday from the left:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlE5yK4l34o

It's worth noting that during an average year about 250 more white people are killed by blacks than the other way around.

economics of the era wrote:

Speed over 60 wrote:

That butt head needs to watch the movie"Free State of Jones" It tells the true story that the Confederacy was fighting for the rich Slave owners and how his state (MS.) started Jim Crow type voting suppression. Long, but very good historical film!

I wish people really understood why the Confederacy went to war. It was not over slavery. There were still slaves in the north when the war started. Those northern slaves were still slaves when the war ended.

It's true! The war was over states' rights.

Namely, a state's right to allow slavery.

Yeah, the issue of slavery was both necessary and sufficient to cause the Civil War

Harambe wrote:

economics of the era wrote:

I wish people really understood why the Confederacy went to war. It was not over slavery. There were still slaves in the north when the war started. Those northern slaves were still slaves when the war ended.

It's true! The war was over states' rights.

Namely, a state's right to allow slavery.

How quickly you dismiss the young men, and sometimes literally boys who fought for the south because of loyalty to a state or purely for the adventure of war. Should they be forgotten because you don’t like what some others stood for?

J.a.y. wrote:

probably he will soon be forced to resign, but i just wish he would now restore the old state flag

I think Mississippi had the best looking flag in the country. Let the people vote to restore it.

No one wants to live in an urban war.

You live there because your parents were poor.

Are you suggesting we celebrate people who killed US soldiers and attacked US military bases? What's next?Do we start celebrating the Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor?

yawn wrote:

How quickly you dismiss the young men, and sometimes literally boys who fought for the south because of loyalty to a state or purely for the adventure of war. Should they be forgotten because you don’t like what some others stood for?

Yes, obviously. They fought for a terrible, treasonous and dehumanizing cause. Let’s move on, they’re long dead anyhow.

yawn wrote:

How quickly you dismiss the young men, and sometimes literally boys who fought for the south because of loyalty to a state or purely for the adventure of war. Should they be forgotten because you don’t like what some others stood for?

You're an annoying poster but this kinda exaggerated trolling makes it clear you are some kind of covert ops for the Left.

It is comforting to know that all confederates are now past crispy in hot place.

economics of the era wrote:

Speed over 60 wrote:

That butt head needs to watch the movie"Free State of Jones" It tells the true story that the Confederacy was fighting for the rich Slave owners and how his state (MS.) started Jim Crow type voting suppression. Long, but very good historical film!

I wish people really understood why the Confederacy went to war. It was not over slavery. There were still slaves in the north when the war started. Those northern slaves were still slaves when the war ended.

I would agree that slavery being wrong wasn’t the main reason for the civil war. The whole idea that the civil war was fought due to morales is ridiculous!! It was about power and control. Slavery was bad because it was as allowing the south to become too economically powerful and leverage too obvious an advantage from free labor.

So whenever I hear ppl saying “we” ended slavery as if it was a moral victory it’s just further proof of a failed educational system. Slavery would probably still exist if there were any other better means to address the south’s economic advantage.

Slavery wasn't the main reason the north declared war on the south but it for sure was the main reason the south seceded.

No, the South wanted to keep owning slaves. They quit the USA to ensure that.

The North smacked them around because of it and forcibly brought them back into the Union. The end.