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G.I. JOE Classified Series Official Thread 2022
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12-06-2022, 08:52 PM
Fly4v
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I always laugh at the hypocritical ?state?s rights (to own slaves)? rationale because the catalyst for the shooting war was western expansion and the new state?s right to decide if they would slave or free. Abolition wasn?t in the table but it was inevitable that free states would outnumber slave states. They knew the vast majority in this country did not want plantation owners gobbling up land on the frontier and bringing in thousands of slaves.
Northern and Southern whites got along just fine because the Union bailed on reconstruction and allowed the ex-confederate Southern plantation owners to re-establish the antebellum racial hierarchy through Jim Crow, Debt Peonage and Tenant farming. And since they were no longer valuable property, black people were much more in danger of racial violence. For black people it was like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Exactly. Because if people knew history, they would know that the rebel flag was revived as a symbol in opposition to the expansion of civil rights. Southern writers intentionally rehabilitated the motivations of the South, downplayed and sugarcoated slavery to make Jim Crow more palatable. Hell, the even mythologized the incompetent Robert E Lee into a war hero.
It isn?t ?innocent? or ?no big deal? and the fact that it was prominently featured in Smokey, Dukes of Hazard and a kids toy line says a lot about how this country never really came to grips with the past and the ensuing repercussions.
States rights in question was not the ownership of Slaves.
It was the States right to leave the Union verses the authority of the Federal Government.
Slavery was dying. Not only was is morally reprehensible. It was not economically viable.
The confederate army had "colored" regiments just like the North. You can not imply that those soldiers were fighting to support slavery.
If we are going to address the historic failures of equal rights. We have to address the negligent that WW1 and WW2 veterans also faced. Those troops fought for freedom just like their ancestors did and didn't get equal rights until the 1960's.
As for Smokey and the Bandit. Bandits car wasn't a representation of the South like a car named the General Lee can be perceived. His car had a plate that was the flag of Georgia.
Even though Slavery is illegal in every country on the planet. It still exists today.
Plus here is a surprise. Racism is not exclusively perpetrated by Caucasians.
I would rather have people openly display symbols and speak their minds so I can easily see if I want to associate with them or frequent their business.
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