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To: POKERSAM who wrote (866409)	6/20/2015 11:32:49 AM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Recommended By tejek Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577592

It doesn’t matter how many times you tell the average Confederate flag-waver that, yes, the Civil War was about slavery — specifically the state’s right to own slaves — because leaders of South Carolina said as much in their own articles of secession back in 1860, which mentioned slavery no fewer than 18 times. It doesn’t matter how delicately you explain that this fact makes the flag inherently offensive to African Americans, because it represents a time when South Carolina was willing to go to war just to retain the right own people as property. It also doesn’t matter how fervently you insist that after the war, the flag was consistently used as a rallying cry for racists, with Klan members, vigilantes, and segregationists waving it proudly as the they beat, terrorized, and murdered black people across the state — just like Roof allegedly did on Wednesday evening. And it definitely doesn’t matter how desperately you remind them that the flag didn’t even go up over the State House until 1961 — coinciding with both the centennial anniversary of the war and the early stages of the African American Civil rights movement — where celebratory ceremonies were racially segregated, and where famous Dixiecrat/segregationist/South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond told the all-white crowd that nowhere in the U.S. Constitution “does it hint a purpose to insure equality of man or things.” How The Charleston Shooting Is Linked To The Confederate Flag, According To A South Carolinian by Jack Jenkins Posted on June 19, 2015 at 9:32 am thinkprogress.org

To: POKERSAM who wrote (866409)	6/20/2015 3:24:51 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577592

tejek Man oh man. That is so dumb. Jefferson Davis believed in States Rights. He was not a racist. He had two sons. One who was his natural son and one he adopted. His adopted son was biracial. You need to study history and clear some of that mud from between your ears. There were some great Generals who fought with the Confederate Army who were not fighting for slavery And why was states' rights so important to people like Davis? I'll tell you why............because that would mean they could ignore federal law and permit them to enslave people.........specifically black people. Its why states' rights has become code for denying equal rights to certain groups of people; why it was an important part of Reagan's speeches when he was speaking in the South. To southerners, southern protagonists and wingers everywhere, states' rights give you the right to screw with other people...........people you all don't like. And Jefferson Davis was a defender of those people and their corrupted way of life. Davis is not to be admired or honored So save your hurt and indignation for the ignorant, white people the South is so good at producing...........the Dylann Roofs.