The current pogrom against Southern history and symbols ignores the influence the South and the institution of slavery had on most American presidents. American history would not be the same without it. If the current goal is to purge any reminder of slavery and the Confederacy from the public sphere, then nearly every American president would have to be withdrawn from our historical consciousness. Nineteen presidents either were slaveholders, from slaveholding families, or were married into slaveholding families:
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"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. - LBJ
ReplyDeleteLBJ would have definitely been a slave holder that's just
his game.
Slavery was legal and was practiced all over the world, so
why is it such an issue just here.
$ and power only.
DeleteAccording to this article, if the Confederate flag is racist,
ReplyDeletethen so is the Union flag and every flag in the world.
Go figure.
http://www.dixiescv.org/slavery.html
Absolutely, no question about it for all logical minds.
DeleteHere in Tennessee, I had an American History high school teacher who used to stand in front of the class with his arms out in supposed compassion, slowing rocking back and forth and say mockingly of then prez, LBJ, "The Great Society....the Great White Daddy in Washington is gonna save us all". LOL....Ron W
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