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You're absolutely correct. I apologize for my choice of words. I was intending to point out that we don't realize how brutal people were in our not so distant past. Imagine if a mob of people exercised vigilante justice today. The response would be swift. I was not attempting to make light of...

The largest recorded lynching happened in New Orleans in 1891. Eleven people.

You'd think the Civil War would be a cautionary tale about the consequences of fostering division between people because of ideology.

Very rarely does a war break out with a simple cause. We all hear the war began because the South fired on the Union at Ft Sumter six days after South Carolina seceded from the Union. If you read their declaration, it clearly mention the tension with non-slaveholding states. Clearly that makes...

Go back a little farther to the 3/5 compromise. This was all about money and power. We used to have slaves as a cheap source of labor and called it state's right when people tried to interfere. Now we have illegal aliens as a cheap source of labor and call it compassion when people try to...

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Because the people behind succession chose to hitch their wagon to a completely immoral concept that was destined to end no matter the outcome of the war. It's possible to honor the sacrifice of Americans in a war that helped us define our direction as a country without glorifying the worst...

The funny part is that by removing the word "Confederate" this statement is completely benign. Some people just aren't too bright.