The Confederacy (was Re: questions)

[Carl Remick]

>I grew up in the South, not far from
>Lee Highway; the Confederate leaders are widely admired there. Indeed, Lee
>was in many ways an admirable man, buut he used his great talents for an
>evil cause.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.  Everything about the Confederacy was deeply evil, 
include Robert E. Lee.  It's high time the "noble cause" bullshit about what 
the Confederacy represented was expunged from the national treasury of 
myths. I have said here before that I think fighting the Civil War was a 
mistake -- that the Confederacy would have been isolated as a barbaric state 
among nations (as was South Africa with apartheid) and that slavery would 
have ended without the bloodshed caused by the Civil War, the agony of 
decades of postwar lynchings, or the engendering of bottomless self-pitying 
bitterness among white Southerners that continues to make the South a sump 
of glorified stupidity and reactionary politics.

Carl
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