Russia is and was famous for rewriting and rearranging history, with leaders changing the names of cities such as swapping Leningrad for St. Petersburg, and removing former government leaders who lost favor from historical photos. History is always a bit messy as trends change and what was once acceptable becomes unacceptable over time. It is arrogant and idiotic, however, to judge past events by current standards, because history is all about context. Inevitably, those seeking to condemn past actions or standards have an agenda, and they want to overlay guilt by association on those who would suggest that history simply is and should be respected and left to stand on its own, within its own contextual framework.
This is clearly being shown in the nonsensical demand by race baiters and liberal firebrands that the confederate flag be excised from history and removed from public exhibit in any shape or form. The narrow minded and bigoted protesters would have us believe that the stars and bars represent only one thing, and that is the history of slavery. That is ignorant beyond belief, and it shows how misguided the protesters are when considering southern history and culture. Unfortunately, Democrat politicians are determined to pander to this overblown expression of concern, and so the rich history of the south is denigrated and dismissed as the flag is hidden away in closets and drawers, out of sight from the public eye.
Confederate flag hidden from view and history rewritten, page 2:
Bull$#%&!@*in it’s purest form.
Lincoln won the war…..sooo why?
Are y’all serious where do you think the first university is from Africa obviously you haven’t read anything but the lies America teaches. First blacks have good reason to be angry let us make you slaves torture you rape your women kill you if you try to read or be free. Then let us free you and not let you vote for almost a hundred years not let you own anything while still killing you and hanging you with no punishment let us do that to you and you will be angry as well do we fuckin fly the Iraq flag after we beat there$#%&!@*no so why the$#%&!@*should we keep the confederate flag they lost the fuckin war we are not the confederate states but the United States so get rid of that racist flag which stands for hatred racism and slavery
And so it goes…..
this is about history not some ones racist beleafs.
You fucking idiot Africa is not poverty stricken if it was white people wouldn’t keep taking all the resources ain’t shitbin Europe fucking nothing Africa has gold diamonds oil rubber natural gas you dumb$#%&!@*and this country wouldn’t be$#%&!@*if it wasn’t for our free labor like I said if you feel we aren’t owed anything let us do to u what u did to us I doubt u would like that I wouldn’t even want to do any human being the way Europeans did people on this planet the biggest and worst terrorist are white Americans the only people to terrorize there own citizens but now Isis is out here killing a couple of white people and y’all act like they are the worst terrorist around no you are not all white people are this way some of my best friends are white but people like the ones making these fucking stupid statements not knowing anything of the history of Africa or the history of America talking out of your head false statements please SHUTUP
Let the States keep their flags, the way they want it, not how politically correct revisionist liberals want them
PC = Political CENSORSHIP!
Nooooooo
I suggest you get off your soap box and read all of the history pertaining to that period. Those people were captured by Africans of different tribes, held in captivity for the Dutch slavers who in turn bought them and transported them here. This was happening while we were a struggling colony. Princess Ann was the driving force for slavery since she demanded the colonies be profitable to repay England for investment. If you had taken American history in college you would know this. You would also know that had the Civil war been postponed just a few years, slavery would have been abandoned because the production of cotton was the driving force for slavery. The bole weevil was destroying the cotton and planters knew nothing about crop rotation. The infrastructure of the South was totally destroyed and did not recover until the mid 1950’s. They were in a deep depression. Their money was worthless and there was no US currency available to the common man. So tell me again how uninformed I am.