Cannot_Wait_4Disney
The Colombo of Cippolini.
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You do? So what do they mean?
Let me tell you what the people I have actually asked said it means. It’s not slavery. It’s not about that part of the history. It’s about the southern people who after the civil war had everything stripped from them. There homes and cities were burned and many had nothing left. They built it back by the sweat of their brow. They pulled up their boot straps and came back from those ashes. And that is what they are proud of. They are not proud of the fact that so many’s fortunes before the war were built in the backs of the slaves. But you have to remember that even those who never owned a slave or fought in the war lost. every thing they had too. And those building back their farms and homes and lives is what southern heritage is.
And the southern states have done it again and again. After Camille and after Katrina in this state.
Is that what anyone meant through the civil rights movement? I don’t have a clue. I wasn’t around then. But this is from people now. And honestly most, at least here, don’t care one way the other about Robert E Lee or his statue. They want to be able to rmemorialize their ancestors without being called racist for doing so.
I've already told you what it means. For someone complaining that the other side doesn't listen, you sure aren't listening. And do you really expect me to believe all those displaying swastikas and the like do so to commemorate great grandaddy's house getting burned and statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest commemorate Katrina rebuilding?