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struggle4progress

(118,345 posts)
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 02:05 PM Apr 2016

Time to celebrate Confederate Heritage Month

Slim Smith
April 1, 2016 10:47:12 AM

... there has never been a group of people more committed to idea of Freedom than our long-departed men in gray and their hoop-skirted Scarlett O'Haras back at Tara.

When it comes to Freedom, these people were practically hoarders. They loved Freedom so much that they were willing to lay down their lives -- or better yet, the lives of their easily-deluded slave-less white neighbors -- so that they could keep Freedom all to their lily-white selves.

Today, there are various organizations -- Sons of the Confederacy, Daughters of the Confederacy, Third Cousins Once Removed of the Confederacy, etc. -- which proudly claim the lineage of those ancient Rebels. Yet the true heirs to the Confederacy are all among us who still embrace the Confederate conviction that there is a finite supply of Freedom.

That means we cannot go around dispensing Freedom, willy-nilly, to dubious groups such as blacks, gays, non-Christians, socialists, climate scientists and NASCAR-haters ...


http://www.cdispatch.com/opinions/article.asp?aid=49286

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Time to celebrate Confederate Heritage Month (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2016 OP
Working class white men fighting for the rights of the rich white men liberal N proud Apr 2016 #1
A rich man's war and a poor man's fight struggle4progress Apr 2016 #2
That pretty much sums up every war. K&R. nt awoke_in_2003 Apr 2016 #3
What Is Your Confederacy, Your Secession? Wolf Frankula Apr 2016 #4

Wolf Frankula

(3,601 posts)
4. What Is Your Confederacy, Your Secession?
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 04:53 AM
Apr 2016

It is that poor white men shall fight and die, so rich white men may own slaves, and look down on poor white men. That is the Alpha and Omega of secession.


Wolf

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