[TheRealThing]

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.
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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.[/SIZE]

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).

Whew. So let me understand this. You're saying that it is up to us to advance our knowledge huh?

We did that with the historical statues those of this nation erected but that anarchists have now torn down, that and what remains at least, of the historical record that is as yet un-revised. Again, I'm talking about the actual historical record, not the revised one on which you guys like to hang your hat and treat as a living document, open to constant change like it was a Wikipedia page. You have an affinity for the laugh icon, as if you've always got the high ground. You just don't seem to be able to recognize when you contradict yourself, many times in the same paragraph but sometimes in the same sentence.

If you'd care to learn from history, England was the main progenitor of slavery on the planet in Colonial days, and a great many loyal Englishmen lived and worked and owned slaves in the New World. It was America led the way to world enlightenment as to the brutality and immorality of slavery. And we led in making things right. After the American Revolution MANY of those Englishmen stayed on in the United States with their highly prized slaves. While William Wilberforce led the fight in the English Parliament, Abraham Lincoln and other Republicans led the cause for the emancipation in America and paid a tremendous price for having done so. Nonetheless over time the immorality of race judging became commonly accepted and resulted in the American people rejecting the practice.

But your side has somehow successfully resuscitated the once rotting corpse of racism after it had been long dead; (and after Congressional Dems made a historical spectacle of themselves resisting the emancipation of the slaves in the first place). I believe there will be a high cost to pay for that as well.

History has been whitewashed by your ilk and frankly, at least I can say my major was history. You'll find it a hard chore to expect all that smoke your blowing would indoctrinate those of us who know better. Suffice it to say you are completely clueless to think the US Constitution had the first thing to do with the liberalism and social handouts you preach about on here. And now you want to wipe away any and all remaining evidence of the truth (it's so inconvenient to the liberal palate) so you can just make up stuff as you go from here on out. Shocker.