Poor Southerners committing treason over slavery and losing 😢

Even Lee didn’t want statues to be built. Yeah, the traitor you Lost Causers borderline-deify didn’t want them. “I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”

The cause was preserving the Union. Old timer is virtue signaling.

This guy is a true American. The war was about slavery and if you’re too sensitive and victimized to realize that, go cope elsewhere. Facts don’t care about your feelings.

The monuments are perfect examples of why Democrats shouldn't be in charge

"To celebrate their lost cause" LOL. talk about taking a complex issue and summing it up with a snotty 21st century woke one liner.

Somebody should tell Trump that Presidents don't have absolute power

Nobody who actually studied the civil war for 15 minutes would agree

Yeah and the Iraq war was about WMDs.

What a lot of people dont understand is the war and the events of the decades leading up to the war werent about the southerners keeping their slaves but rather being allowed to expand slavery. Lincoln and the north believed and many in the south feared that if slavery wasnt allowed to expand it would die off.

What’s new? That’s what I thought already.

Confederate sympathizer: "The South was fighting for the rights of all people to be be proud of their pride". Lol

Enter Nikki Haley. 🤣

It was about maintaining the union as a whole. It turned into emancipation. Alot of people died for things to move along.

When republcans were on the side of good.

People asking “why can’t the president just do this or that?”. You really want presidents to have dictatorial powers?

Funny cause Abraham Lincoln didn’t see it that way

The Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free anyone. It was a political move. It only "freed" slaves in territories which were still in active revolt to the union... doing nothing for the slaves in the few Union-held areas which still allowed slavery at the time. Don't get me wrong, Lincoln disliked slavery, but he knew that he could also use it to build morale amongst the Union soldiers. Preservation of the Union was his main goal. Freeing the slaves was a distant second priority. In addition, after the Emancipation Proclamation, the British (who were mostly abolitionists) decided to honor the Union embargo of the Confederacy.

See how many city folk wander out to the Rural America and see how long they last.... THATS WHY THE ELITE CLASS WONT HAVE THE NERVE TO EITHER

Lincoln wanted to send all slaves back to Africa. Also, the war didn't start out about slavery it was about states rights. Lincoln didn't give a shit about slavery

Those statues belong in museums, not in public.

So you went from Philly to what another big city yeah of course it's the same how about instead you go from Philly to rural America and see the difference maybe talk to the locals of both see how each of them answer in comparison

If lincon was a lawyer and knew he couldnt emacipate the slaves, then why did he evtually do it and why did he suspend habious corpus, and also issue a waarant for the arrest of the chief justice when he said suspension of habious corpus was basically treason and struck it down. Lincon was a tyrant.

Heritage, not hate.

It's all of us vs. Washington DC

Blame the DAR. The southern women during Reconstruction decided to keep the confederacy going thru marches, flags, monuments and enshrining white suprenacy .

It was about states' rights for the South and slavery for the North.

A States sovereignty versus federal lawmaking. Federal government said no more slaves, the southern democrats said, it is our sovereign right as a state to make that decision. The war ensued from that.

Any other time enemy soldiers came to speak to children on what the war was REALLY about. Telling kids their parents and grandparents are lieing to them and are bad people, we would consider that propoganda. "No kids, we invaded your homes and farms, killing your relatives with forced conscription for freedom. Just ask the black folks we promised a mule and 40 acres of southerner land to and never gave it to them."

Those old yankees didn t tell you how most of them wanted blacks settled into colonies away from the u.s.or did they tell you of the thousands of southerners who starved to death by gran t sherman and sheridan?

Does it really matter? If you look at black culture as of 2024 , emancipation was obviously a failure and you can’t blame any Caucasians for that.

lol 😂😂😂😂 it was over states freedom had nothing to do with slavery like we call it the war of northern aggression

It was to keep England from joining the Rebs....he sounds like a politician

The Democratic Party are removing the monuments they raised to their Heros.

Who else is remained of Frazier Crane watching this?

No history should be erased, good or bad; it all serves as a lesson of our past in order to set an example for today.

So was he planning to free the slaves before the war before or after he wrote the Corwin amendment😂, these Lincoln apologies I swear to God🤣

Idc what it was fought about. I dont like my state having zero autonomy once the fed says so.

Too bad that the Charlottesville anti Lee protesters didn't know the intent of the statue.

No difference between Nazi Germany and antebellum southern heritage.

History is a collection of lies agreed upon

Actions have consequences, what if the communities got together to not be insurrectionists? Then they probably wouldn't need to grieve or build monuments 🙏❤️

Lincoln is the first traitor to the republic

Simply every southern soldier committed treason, that’s a fact and is something we can’t deny. Why have statues commemorating treason. We don’t have any Arron burr memorials in this country

And that is why there are so many statues of Hitler in Germany.

What an absolute crock of shit.

New York draft riots, the lynchings..? All about love.. Freedom, emancipation? Eeeeeh Sure. Wasnt only time by far either

Most went up during the Civil Rights Movement.

Thank God they won

The unwanted statues are of Lee, Forrest,. I can only think of the mural in Atlanta and Furling of The Flag as an homage to the Conderacy's loss.