If You Think the Civil War Ever Ended, Think Again - By Adele Stan

[Divine Discontent]

http://www.alternet.org/news/146366/if_you_think_the_civil_war_ever_ended,_think_again/




April 8, 2010 |


When I first moved to Washington, D.C., I had hardly a stick of furniture, so I boarded a bus to take me to the nearest Ikea, which was in a Virginia mall. Quite unfamiliar with the territory, I watched out the window with curiosity as the bus traveled along the chain-store lined route.

Soon I noticed we were traveling along a road called the Jefferson Davis Highway. I was stunned, and a bit sick to my stomach. How could it be that a highway was named after a man who made war against the United States, all so the citizens of his region could continue to hold human beings in chains? All so slave masters could continue to rape the women they claimed to own, in some cases, enslaving their own sons and daughters who ended up serving their white half-brothers and -sisters?

That throughout a significant swath of the nation, men who committed treason for the sake of maintaining chattel slavery are lauded as heroes speaks to a terrible illness in the American psyche — one that continues to fester 145 years after the last shot was fired in the War Between the States. <snip>

Although Obama has initiated no change to existing gun laws, gun-rights advocates tout him as a far greater threat than any president before him. On April 19, a “Second Amendment march on Washington” will take place, somewhat hampered by the District of Columbia’s gun laws. But on the outskirts of the capital, gun-owners from the group, Restore the Constitution, will gather at a park in Northern Virginia, where the gun laws are far more lenient, even allowing the carrying of concealed handguns if the bearer has a permit. (A permit is not required to walk about with a firearm in a holster.) Virginia has reciprocity on its conceal/carry law with all but three of the states that formed the Confederacy. <additional snip>

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[bluestateguy]

1. I'm assuming all of these Southern good ole' boys also voted Democratic

they wouldn't DARE want to vote for the PARTY OF LINCOLN!

[Divine Discontent]

2. I have been laughing at an old boss who has been mailing me those forwards about

how Obama is going to take their guns, and everyone should revolt, and such, and in several of the forwards it says things like, "We voted for you!" and I laugh - the hell they did!

[thelordofhell]

3. The last President that had a hand in taking away guns?

george w. bush during Katrina. That always shuts these jerkwads up.

[mitchum]

4. Those confederate reenactors seem to be just a bit too well-fed...

for authenticity.
But those cracker necrophiliacs have never been troubled by inaccuracy...