Obama: Omission Of Slavery From Confederate History Month 'Unacceptable'

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[waldoman7]

@Defcon458

your claim about the proclamation only supports my position that the south left cheifly because of slavery and the north invaded for greed that had little to do with slavery.

[Defcon458]

@waldoman7 Um, no. Read the emancipation proclamation. I dare you. It only freed slaves in the south and legalized slavery elsewhere. They seceded over tariffs and threats of bloodshed if their taxes weren't paid.

[waldoman7]

@Cin

of course it was not the sole reason. the south STILL suffers from northern domination and discrimination. yet when it's the straw that broke the camels back along with the most heated argument in congress for decades, clearly it is the biggest reason. The south complained that the north abused the south for a long time, but it didn't seceed. It seceeded over slavery. Then the north started the war so that they could go back to abusing the south for profit.

[Cinj216]

@waldoman7 Good to see someone paid attention in school. But as they say, history is written by the victor. So enjoy basking in your incorrect, and thus, useless knowledge.

If anything, the anti-slave legislation was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back", but it wasn't the sole reason for war.

[waldoman7]

@socaljay45001

because the north controls congress and denies the south funds for construction and schools and such. it's part of why the south rebelled in the first place, and it got much worse in the harsh post war punishments.

[waldoman7]

@UbinTimor

is it not true that governments should be for the people, of the people, and by the people? do not governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed, just as the Delaratin says? If so, then surely a people have a right to choose their government, and if they find the U.S. unsuitable, to leave it. If anything the U.S. would be betraying it's People by prohibiting democractically chosen seccession

[waldoman7]

@Cinj216

yes, there was the northern suppresion of the southern economic system(most notably in the attacks on slavery which the south was dependant on), and the northern attacks on state's rights(most notably the right to own slaves).

Fact is that the south seceeded in direct response to anti slave legislation and power shift, as stated by the confederate leaders. any other issues were secondary.

[whiteguy212006]

Retarded, the constant notion that the civil war was about slavery is such b.s.! The hypnocriticism of the northern government is an unbelievable disgrace.

[Cinj216]

@TheBackstreets1 To say that the Confederacy was built on slavery is to minimize and discredit the myriad of issues that led to the Southern backlash. It's a shame that history revisionists have distorted things so much that people are being taught some pretty outrageous shit these days.

[MegaAstrodude]

@TheCaliCapitalist,

Although ironically the Confederacy was Democrat.