Search results

  1. Edgeplay_cgo

    United States Confederate Statues, symbols, and memorials debate thread

    It's easy and lazy to throw bombs like, "regurgitating obvious far right soundbites." Yes, I presume those people were a minority, but does that mean they should be stomped into the oblivion of one dimensional shrieking?
  2. Edgeplay_cgo

    United States Confederate Statues, symbols, and memorials debate thread

    For what? I believe I read the essay story on Drudge, echoed from the Chicago Tribune. The NBF stuff came from a number of Internet sites, some of which were undoubtably biased, but contained historical stuff that can be checked. I seldom do citations. My point, as I stated it, is that the...
  3. Edgeplay_cgo

    United States Confederate Statues, symbols, and memorials debate thread

    The house negros vs slave negro dynamic is a real thing, slaves fighting on behalf of their masters isn't a new phenomenon. Correct. And there was a population of freedmen who mourned the passage of slavery. Life was tough, but secure. You ate. We see the same thing with Osties, former East...
  4. Edgeplay_cgo

    United States Confederate Statues, symbols, and memorials debate thread

    Nathan Bedford Forest is a vert c Plus, we could build statues of Grant alongside of Lee, perhaps with inscriptions showing Appomatox, or of Lincoln alongside Davis, or any number of combinations which can specifically and just thematically emphasize the common American status of those...
Top