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Great, when can I book a ticket to see the re-enactment of the surrender?
Do no pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars. Proceed directly to the nearest shoot him into the sun.
Does that mean these racists are going to be dropping the n bomb? Because that's, And I cannot emphasize this enough, gross.
I've got condiments in the fridge that lasted longer than your "heritage."
Setting aside the massive amount of racism of the Confedercy, why are southerens so focused on the treasonous side of a civil war?
It's the racism isn't it.
Always has been. The flag they fly wasn't even the Confederate States flag, but a made up amalgamation resurrected in 1948 by the Dixiecrats to opposed Civil Rights. All modern bullshit about the Confederacy is rooted in some post reconstruction era racist asshole trying to bring back the Confederacy for some other racist ass motivations.
Never trust any racist ass inbred fuckwit when they say, "Heritage not hate" because that flag is solely based on hate. So was the confederacy for that matter. Now excuse me while I got back to writing petitions to get Confederate statues replaced with statues of John Brown.
Even the idea that it's your heritage.... I'm sorry, I thought your heritage was being an American. It's been nearly 250 years since the country was formed, including many of the states of the confederacy. Even the youngest state that seceded, Texas, has been in the union for 180 years. It was a part of the union for over 15 years before seceding for 4, too, almost 4 times as long. But no? It's the 4 years that matter most? The 4 year period where the racist slavers seceded because they wanted to make sure they could continue to own humans as livestock and deny rights, freedoms and even basic human decency to people for the color of their skin or their genetic ancestry? Where they fought and died to protect THAT institution and way of life? That's your heritage? ... well, ok, then. But that sounds pretty fucking racist, doesn't it?
They never gave up, there was always a south will rise again patriotism
Sherrrrman grab the torch
Didn’t the United States Army defeat those traitors?
Not nearly enough thanks to fucking Johnson. They should've been left afraid to take a piss again without the North's permission. Fuck the traitor's pride they were allowed to evangelize.
Johnson, yes, but a lot more blame should be put on Samuel Tilden, who managed to leverage threats of another uprising to get Republicans to withdraw troops after the narrow 1876 Presidential election.
Should have let the freedmen take over the ~~plantations~~ forced lavor camps as their own property and hanger every slave owner and send anyone else on their own trail of tears.
They were traitors. They should have all been executed
you can thank the daughters of confederacy for keeping it alive throughout the centuries.
These hicks have contributed, influenced or affected so little of benefit, they need to give themselves medals when they came second on a two players race to feel they somehow matter.
It's so sad if it wasn't for the fact the whole "heritage" is defending the right to own and abuse people.
It was four fucking years and most of that was a war that left your major cities in flames. It's crazy that I don't consider high school my heritage but these fuckin nitwits can't let go of 4 years like a 150 years ago.
I've met some people that very much consider their four years in high school to define them and to be their "heritage". Many of them then try to vicariously live through their kids in often the very same high school.
I have a feeling the Venn diagram overlaps quite a bit....
North vs. South again soon? This time the South will win, since they’ll have the US military.
They did during the Civil War too. The South had more generals, since Southerners tended to have more militia experience, because the militias were used to crush slave rebellions and catch escaping enslaved people.
The Feds manage the supply lines for everything. Even if Texas got all the tanks, they'd barely make it to the border with on hand fuel and parts.
Распространяйте страх, товарищ
A shithole state so bad, it's worse than Alabama.
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn
Bruh simpsons lasted longer than confederacy. There is mo heritage there.
I have spinach in my freezer that lasted longer than the Confederacy.
Yeah. Not just longer. But waaaaay longer. Like, over +30 years longer.
Imagine celebrating something 150+ years later that lasted ~4 years, was a total failure and, at least as of right now, the biggest blemish on American History.
Just a reminder that Mississippi did not ratify the thirteenth amendment until 2013.
Cool, Germany then should get a Wehrmacht "heritage" month as well. Ridiculous
Heritage of taking a fat fuckin L
I mean, if they want a month long reminder that they're a bunch of losers, I guess I'm ok with that.
The confederacy are the most widely celebrated giant losers of all time, and it isn’t even close.
There are more monuments commemorating their failure than there are commemorating most successes
You can thank Wilson for most of those. He also used the presidency to re-found the KKK. He also was one of the authors of the Lost Cause Southern Revisionist BS.
Why not call it Racist Hillbilly month instead?
Everyone knows that's the definition of "Confederate"
"That's my battle flag". And they all hang it up with a U.S. flag and somehow think they are patriotic. The Confederate flags only ever faught battles against the U.S. In fact I'm fairly certain with the rhetoric Donald Trump has used to say we should deport everyone who is anti America, it would mean anyone who flys a conferederate flag should be deported. Surely it won't blow up in their faces in a couple years.
Still competing with Florida and Arkansas and Louisiana for shittiest state. Winning.
I recommend yellow paint be applied to all loser flags.
A member of the Rankin Greys, a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp based in Florence, Mississippi, announced the proclamation in on April 18.
The SCV annually asks governors to issue the Confederate Heritage Month proclamations.
The SCV is a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which promotes a revisionist version of history that whitewashes the Confederacy’s racist past and downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War. SCV owns and operates Beauvoir, the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; the organization annually receives $100,000 from the State of Mississippi for development and maintenance.
I hate Mississippi Nazis.
How long did the confederacy last again, 4 years? Really need a month to recognize a screwball government that only lasted through one presidential term's worth of time?
It's their "heritage" they want to celebrate though...
So literally slave ownership. That's it.
Are they going to have a "Slavery and Treason Parade"?
Isn't that every month down there?
Why isn't this considered treason? They fucking lost. Wtf isn't any confederate symbolism illegal and punishable by prison time? I'd support this. Also same thing for nazi shit. Didn't Germany make all nazi shit illegal?
It's a myth that more Americans died in the Civil War than any other conflict. They inflate the numbers by counting slavers as Americans. I mean we didn't put the names of the Vietnamese on that wall did we? (fucking thing would stretch to Richmond if we did)
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.
In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.