25% of Us Have More Sympathy for Confederacy

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Saying the civil war was only about slavery is like saying Iraq is only about spreading democracy. It is a mixed bag. The enslavement of human beings is horrid, and nobody argues it was a bad thing for it to end. The argument is why hundreds of thousands died without ever owning a slave, and the beliefs they held. Also, the role of the Federal government over the state, and the use of Federal force to invade an conquer other American people. The finances and political maneuvering had as much to do with the war of northern aggression :) as slavery. I am not saying that slavery was not a major part of the issue, but to oversimplify the issue as black and white is a mistake. I am continually offended by ignorant people who assume I am uneducated for not parroting public school indoctrination. I am sorry I look beyond what the state has deemed appropriate to program me to believe. I think if you have not read anything about the issue you have little room to assume I am a redneck racist.

I am a descendant of African slaves in America. This has greatly affected my people and still affect my people, seeing that, some people according to this article, sympathize with the confederacy. It can be found in the Library of Congress that prominent clergy, politicians and aristocrats argued for slavery by justifying it with the bible, saying that my people were "the accursed people of the bible", as it is written in Gen. 9:18-27 And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem, and Ham and Japheth and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be a husbandman (farmer) and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and was uncovered within his tent and Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two bretheren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father and their faces were backwards and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him. and he said, "cursed be Canaan, a slave of slaves shall he be unto his bretheren (my people). And he said, "blessed be the Lord God of Shem and Canaan shall be his slave. God shall enlarge Japheth and he shall dwell in the tent of Shem and Canaan shall be his slave. As a believer in the Torah, I do not fight against what is written. But I do understand the scriptures because the Torah also say, "In all thy getting, get understanding" and here is the understanding. Christian society has enslaved the wrong son. Though my ancestors descend from Ham, we were not all cursed. Ham had others sons. They got it wrong and if they got it wrong then they unjustly enslaved my people in God's holy name and may the Lord have mercy upon our souls when He comes back to judge us all.

Oh horseshit. The lazy ignorant bumblefuck viewpoint of the old south is still with us. And it ain't sympathetic. Ask how many black people sympathize with the South.