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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Catfish who wrote (119740)12/27/2000 5:01:11 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (5) of 769667
 
When Confederate leaders almost unanimously declare slavery morally right, this, on the basis of the alleged inferiority of the black race, then good reason exists not to force people (certainly not blacks) to honour Confederate symbols with public tax dollars.

The issue was not merely economic. It was both economic and moral, and the two cannot be separated. Alexander Stephens, Jefferson Davis and very many other southerners literally claimed Thomas Jefferson was wrong and that the Confederate government was founded on the natural law that whites should enslave blacks.

That, my friend, is not just economic-- not even close. Indeed it was an affront to America, rejecting the very justification for America's existence. No American can honour this.
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