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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is no such thing as a "good slave owner" just as there is no such thing as a "good nazi".
Fuck Robert E Lee and the entire fucking confederacy. They lost and need to get over it and fuck themselves.
Its over and if they dont like it, then they just need to move to fucking Russia.
elleng
(130,126 posts)Hi, mad!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I live in the South, and the BS these rubes believe/spew about the confederacy and how its all OK now ticks me off.
Iggo
(47,486 posts)RainCaster
(10,673 posts)Asking for a friend.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)it has been over half a century since one has been observed. They are thought to be extinct by professional. zoologists.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)modrepub
(3,467 posts)but they can name one from ancient Rome (Hint: there was a big time movie about it).
If you said John Brown, I'll give you some credit but can you name a black leader who led a mass slave revolt? Funny how that works, right?
And I'll tell you a funny story (not ha ha funny) about John Brown. Was in VA visiting Shenandoah Park. On the last day my son wanted to visit a minor civil war battle park near our hotel. They had a civil war museum, basically a private collection or photos and artifacts. It was interesting, especially all of the personal soldier photos that were displayed. There was one display that caught my attention about the uprising at Harpers Ferry where Brown led a small band that seized a federal garrison in hopes of triggering a mass slave revolt. It didn't work and Brown was eventually hanged for his troubles. The most perplexing thing was the the display called Brown a "terrorist". I don't know who wrote that but it plainly illustrates what a lot of people think IMO.
haele
(12,581 posts)Diary of Nat Turner was one of the books in my 1974 sophomore American Lit class (Along with Catcher in the Rye and the Bell Jar, amongst others). Huck Finn was 7th grade reading.
Of course, this was Seattle Washington in the 1970's. And we were a University feeder.
I don't think as many parents today are willing to let their precious little darlings learn about anything remotely grown up. My day, kids were supposed to start "growing up" and learn about the real world around 14 or 15 to be more or less grown up by the time they were 18 or 20; not remain protected, infantalized "kids" until they were 18 and then tossed into the deep end of adulthood before they learned the even the basics like "with rights come responsibilities", and "actions have consequences".
Oh, yeah "you kids get off my lawn..."
Haele
Hotler
(11,353 posts)5/9/1865
Get over it.
ananda
(28,779 posts)All so sadly true.