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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 12:45 PM
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"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid,...
its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition." -Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, Cornerstone Speech 3/21/1861

So can we finally put to rest this revisionist bullshit that secession had nothing to do with slavery?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 12:46 PM
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1. And if you want to check up on that, he's got plenty more to say about how important slavery was
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 12:49 PM
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2. Maybe Liberals should start marking these anniversaries
the way the revisionists are marking other anniversaries



How about having a group reenact the first presentation of that speech on it's 150th anniversary?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 01:33 PM
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3. Maybe it's what we have to do.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 04:48 PM
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4. I see recs but no kicks. Anyone want to talk about it?
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david13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 05:56 PM
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5. Make possession of that flag a crime. Ban the flag. Just like the
Germans have criminalized holocaust denial.
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