[Hoot Gibson]

Confederate soldiers were traitors to the United States of the America. They seceded from the Union and drew arms. You're delusional to even suggest they weren't.
Hell, you are implying these BLM protesters are traitors, and they are exercising a Constitutional right at worst a destruction of public property who knew outright war would is more acceptable!! :hilarious:

There are statues that have some from problems. One with Lincoln and a slave at his feet...needs to go. The one with Teddy Roosevelt on horse with a slave and a Native American where it appears he has dominion over those two...needs to go. Those statues do not represent the legacy of those men, but they do represent a racist undertone in this nation.

I'm glad you brought up the education system and the whitewashing of American history. We celebrate and/or ignore a lot of bad people in this nation. Judging by your opinions on here, I'm pretty certain you missed some important facts. Not your fault, we all did, but it is up to us to advance our knowledge instead of wallow in ignorance.

No, I don't favor the destruction of Mt. Rushmore although it has problems, and I could see why some Americans feel that way.

Anybody who tries to destroy a church's property is wrong. But you did provide a great example of the implicit racism in this country (the greatest man who ever lived couldn't be anything but a white man).

When you start down the road of allowing roving mobs to begin destroying the history of a nation by toppling statues, things do not generally end well for any of the nation's citizens.

The southern states seceded from a country that they voluntarily joined. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution barred states from seceding, just as nothing compelled them to take up arms against the Soldiers from their own states. Civil wars are fought between citizens of the same nation, not between citizens and traitors. There are heroes and villains in every war and generally neither side has a monopoly on either.

I think that you have confused me with someone else. I have never called the rioters, looters, and arsonists who march with or in the vicinity of BLM traitors. They are nothing more than common thugs who have no respect for the law. They deserve jail time, but treason charges are not warranted.

Lincoln and the Republicans waged war against the southern states to preserve the union, not to end slavery. Lincoln was open to compromise on the issue of slavery until the southern states seceded. Few of the people who joined the Confederate Army when the Civil War broke out did so to save the institution of slavery because Lincoln had never stated that to be among his objectives until late 1863.

Try reading some history, before your comrades start burning down our libraries.