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21. Trying hard to suppress a primal scream.

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 07:00 PM

Jul 2015

These people and those hiding behind this garbage can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned. .

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But ... but ... there were black confederate soldiers! [View all] struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

K & R Iliyah Jul 2015 #1

yeah, they're revering the balck slaves that were forced to fight notadmblnd Jul 2015 #2

Blacks in the Confederate army is a complicated story Yupster Jul 2015 #14

However we both know, historically it has not been the black notadmblnd Jul 2015 #16

Did I say that? Yupster Jul 2015 #19

No, the picture in the OP did- you mearly attempted to defend it. notadmblnd Jul 2015 #20

As hard as it is to believe it, there actually were aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2015 #3

Nathan Bedford Forrest was the author of the Fort Pillow massacre: struggle4progress Jul 2015 #4

Remember Fort Pillow! appalachiablue Jul 2015 #12

Have you ever been to a sporting event in Philly? Glassunion Jul 2015 #13

There were some black slaveholders too. That doesn't make it right. hobbit709 Jul 2015 #8

Beat me to it derby378 Jul 2015 #9

And Irish, Danish and French SS soldiers in the German army during WW2. LanternWaste Jul 2015 #10

Often the very toughest soldiers Yupster Jul 2015 #15

There was a Spanish division of the SS as well aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2015 #17

Trying hard to suppress a primal scream. nc4bo Jul 2015 #21