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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: KonKilo who wrote (347584)1/24/2003 10:02:07 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
ShilohCat,

Re: Confederate veterans should be honored.

I don't have a dog in this fight. My grandparents came over in the wave of immigrants in the first decade of the twentieth century.

But I would suggest that the reasons why the South seceded, i.e. the maintenance of an oligarchic and grossly unfair society, the backward feudalism of the region and the racial prejudices glorified by the Confederate leadership are all anathema to my sense of what the true democratic ideals of this country ought to be.

I'm surprised that you take the position you do. You must be a Southerner. As someone who grew up in Illinois in a more-or-less peacefully integrated community at the time of the great civil rights struggles of the 1960's, I have zero sympathy for the goals of the Confederacy.
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