Comments on: Shelby Foote on the Confederate Battle Flag

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:19:58 +0000

Everyone is over-thinking this, when it’s rather simple really. Attacking the Dixie flag is merely a way of indirectly attacking whitey.

After all, we have to somehow collectively repent for the recent church shooting. And you can’t be not racist even if you’re only symbolically standing upright, so bend over!

By: Coyote

Coyote — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 02:45:35 +0000

Sir, some further research and study will reveal to you that you are “almost there” in admitting that “other factors” were at the heart of the war which began several years before President Lincoln had to capitulate to bankers (funding abolitionist terrorism in the North) to bring the Abolitionist movement into the war on behalf of the Union. The South at that time could compete economically with slaves; slavery would have been unviable even in the South in less than 50 years. The North press ganged Scots-Irish immigrants into the war on the Union side; it was, perhaps, fortuitous that the English aristocracy were forcing their landholders off their holdings so that they could buy sheep to raise instead of crops. The “merchants” who were becoming politically influential in Parliament and in the City had much to do with this drastic change in England at the time. England always vowed to regain the colonies; with the establishment of the “Fed” in 1913, several Lords were quoted as remarking that the colonies were once more “back in the proper hands.”

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 22:38:42 +0000

Well, I’m generally a big fan of Mr. Foote’s, but I just can’t go there with him on this one. I’m familiar with the arguments, and I also recognize that there are lots of smart folks whose views are diametrically opposed to my own, but it seems to me that the secession documents, and many, many, many statements made by confederate leadership, support the view that “what the confederacy really stood for” includes, at its core, the preservation of slavery. Yes, tariffs, yes states’ rights, yes imperial presidency (yes, I read “emancipating slaves, enslaving free men,” too) but I just don’t see how to get around slavery at the core of this. And furthermore, this was a flag (and yes I’m aware that what most of the public thinks of as “the confederate battle flag” isn’t precisely the confederate battle flag that was actually used) that was used to mount an insurrection. Against my country. Nobody asked me, but if any body did, I would say, have done with it.