South-bashing

[Zorra]

93. Your point is hard to follow. It's a good thing that no one commemorates these massacres.

It's a good thing that people west of the Rockies don't celebrate massacres of Native Americans, and the majority of people here would never condone the celebration of the slaughter of Native Americans. A few would, it is true.

The large population of Native Americans that still lives west of the Rockies, who make up 2% of the population west of the Rockies, would be righteously offended.

And historically speaking, most massacres of Native Americans were committed by the bluecoat soldiers of the federal government who were from east of the Mississippi, not settlers.

Native tribes, especially the Comanche and Lakota, would have exterminated the settlers moving west if federal soldiers did not do their best to genocide the Native population.

Many people in the south commemorate and honor those who went to war to preserve the legal rights of slaveholders to "own" human beings, primarily human beings of African ancestry with dark skin. It's a fact. I've traveled all over the south, lived in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Florida for short periods of time, and I've seen it. I got thrown out of town by a really scary cop in Forrest City, Arkansas, because, and this is a verbatim quote, "we don't like your kind around here". I was very afraid that he was going to hurt or kill me.

Forrest City, by the way, is named for confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

My point is, don't try to put this shit off on someone else. No one is blaming you personally, and no one is blaming anyone in the south who wants to see all this antebellum glorification bullshit eliminated.

Please don't get defensive about those who wish to see all vestiges of the glorification of slavery eliminated, stand up to the people who glorify slavery and those who glorify the people who sought to perpetuate slavery.

Here in the southwest, we've got our own brand of ignorant shithead fuckstick backwards racist sexist homophobes to deal with.

I'm not gonna defend it, I'm gonna end it.