If you don't see how that can be offensive than you truly are ignorant.
Civil War was over States' Rights....with the main issue about those rights being the issue of having slaves.
You have a confederate flag hanging in your room?? Kill yourself.
SOuth wouldn't have won anyways. Not enough men and resources the North was far larger. Also once Sherman took over ripping through Georgia and burning everything it was pretty much game over.
I guess I can say where mentioning the south would be offensive, but it is silly to be offended by it. My family is military and saw action in the Vietnam war and the family members were oppressed because of it. I guess I should hate late 60's hippie music and hippies in general? No harm was done to me, but there was harm done to my family.
I honestly don't care, what's done is done.
My people were forced to walk from their homes to Oklahoma. I don't get sore about it, I am proud to be Cherokee.
I'm also German. My Great Grandfather left Germany after WW1 (well.... a little ways after... 1938 to be exact) and came to America, Illinois to be exact. People oppressed him because he was German, especially during WW2. No one was willing to hire him, so he lived off of the land. I saw a poster that looked something like this in an antique shop in Savannah:
http://library.flawlesslogic.com/poster.gif
I don't get sore over any of these, because it doesn't matter.
**** happens, this is a ****ed up world.
Now in Portsmouth you have a football game every year that EVERYONE including the adults go to. That game is West vs Portsmouth. You see, a lot of Portsmouth high school attendees are black or a wigger. West is stonch country music and tobacco lovin red necks (I am West BTW).
The game always turns into a race war. Portsmouth yells and calls West Jesus huggers, crackers, red necks so on and so forth. West calls them ******s, wiggers, homies so on and so forth. It is literately a race war. So mentioning something like the South or the Confederacy doesn't even come close to qualifying as a racist or offensive thing in my book.
The Civil War was hardly about slavery. That was just a side thing. Did you know that the war was frowned upon by practically the entire nation. People complain about todays war, try having a smaller population, food shortages, destroyed cities and 700,000 dead! Yeah, people wanted the war to end. Lincoln gave terms several times saying that the slaves would remain slaves. You see, back then the South's economy revolved around slavery. If you removed slavery you would hurt their bountiful economy. Today we use computers and machines in place of slaves or cheap work from Ireland (Corporate slaves if you will).
Now, another thing that most people do not know is how the United States Government worked prior to 1860ish. You see, we were Colonies before the Revolution and we kept that mindset after the Revolution. You were a South Carolinian, New Yorker, Virginian or Kentuckian, not an American. Your states took care of the political stuff. Congress would get together for the soul purpose of checking the states. There was a big scare that the states would become un-united and the next Europe would arise from the ashes on the Constitution and with it, many years of war.
I can't remember exactly when, but the Government started shifting towards Congress being the head honcho over politics instead of the filter.
This is what started the South's fire, tariffs is what broke the Camel's back (or at least South Carolina's back). There is more to it, and slaves was part of it, but it wasn't all of it as the history books would have you believe.
Anyways, the slaves were freed at the end basically IMO to cripple the South's economy. No more cheap labor, no more bountiful economy.
It was a way to keep them from rising again.
I should kill myself because I have a CSA flag in my room?
That flag to me stands for Rebellion. I am a lover of rebellion and death to oppression. I love Gandhi and he is why I have such an interest in the Buhdist religion. Martin Luther is awesome just because of the balls it takes to oppose the church in Medieval times. Martin Luther King Junior is also cool. Loved the bedroom though. xD lol
Rebellion makes the world go round. At the heart of many historical events there is a Rebellion. America is founded on rebellion, blacks got their rights through rebellion, the church no longer controls everything because of rebellion, sin is here because of rebellion and Satan is Satan because of rebellion.
Bull crap, the South could have won. What, do you actually think that the Union civi's would throw the amrs up and yell "LORDY LORDY! You didn't just do what I thought you just did." In fact, a lot of the Southern and Union soldiers would meet up and trade tobacco (South) for something that the North had that I have forgotten about........
No, the War was politically driven, not populace driven. if Thomas Jackson would have reached DC and burnt it to the ground and killed Abraham, then the war would have been over, period. The South would retreat out of the North and probably build up defenses around its harbors and in Kentucky and Virginia.
Also, the North was not far larger and the South had a lot of resources. They just got their ports destroyed/blocked. Without the ability to trade their economy fell apart.
You also got your times mixed up. Sherman didn't go on his burning and conquering spree until after Thomas Jackson was dead.
There, I have said my piece.
@Tutu
I care about stages and the lay of the land in a fight. The South knew this better than anyone, that is why I mentioned it.
@Judo
Calling me a cracker, calling Mars a ******, calling Mario a dago or Ankoku yellow is not racist. No one here is being oppressed, cept maybe Mario. No, oppression would be if I would go kick his *** or burn his stuff, you know, true acts of hatred, not political correctness bull ****.
That being said, I was wrong for calling him a yellow. It was kinda uncalled for.
