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Chula Vista · 08-12-2017, 11:58 PM

Let's remember that the Civil War, at its core, was about those southern states wanting to keep their slaves (to stay very rich) and ignoring the basic tenants of the United States Constitution:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

So the leaders of the southern movement were a bunch of rich white men who didn't want to give up their free labor, and who convinced thousands and thousand of young men through BS propaganda (sound familiar?) that it was some sort of noble cause that made killing other Americans justified.

Lee, at various points during his military career, instructed his troops to capture any free blacks they came across and to return them to the south so they could be enslaved again.

When you have some time give this a read. Again, sound familiar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_C...he_Confederacy

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Let's remember that the Civil War, at its core, was about those southern states wanting to keep their slaves (to stay very rich) and ignoring the basic tenants of the United States Constitution: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” So the leaders of the southern movement were a bunch of rich white men who didn't want to give up their free labor, and who convinced thousands and thousand of young men through BS propaganda (sound familiar?) that it was some sort of noble cause that made killing other Americans justified. Lee, at various points during his military career, instructed his troops to capture any free blacks they came across and to return them to the south so they could be enslaved again. When you have some time give this a read. Again, sound familiar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_C...he_Confederacy __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”