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In reply to the discussion: Why is it we forced "de-nazification" on Germany but not the equivalent on Confederates? [View all]Response to Yupster (Reply #92)
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Why is it we forced "de-nazification" on Germany but not the equivalent on Confederates? [View all]
yurbud
Jun 2015
OP
The fact that they are slave owners, and when you commit open rebellion and commit human rights
ncjustice80
Jun 2015
#111
*The four days of the 1863 New York City Draft Riots, the largest civil insurrection
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#53
Legal slavery existed in all of the 13 original colonies, and after we became an independent country
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#62
That's something I've never heard or considered. Even if the South had won Gettysburg, and thank
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#73
Lee's forces were extremely depleted and in no way could have carried on into PA and NY even
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#100
This is true, Dr. King called Chicago the most segregated city in the US.
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#55
Absolutely. My grandfather was principal of an all black Chicago grammar school in the 1940's
hedda_foil
Jun 2015
#123
Your refusal to read, and learn the truth will not serve you well in life. And we're being nice
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#66
Black people like Sammy Davis Jr. the entertainer & singer Dorothy Dandridge couldn't stay in
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#47
"There were not "separate" schools, restrooms, water fountains, seats a diner counters"
BumRushDaShow
Jun 2015
#82
Google "sundown towns." Plenty of them were in states north of the Mason-Dixon lines.
raccoon
Jun 2015
#85
sharecropping was arguably better for planters. Former slaves ended up OWING them money.
yurbud
Jun 2015
#23
This country was build on the back of black slaves and the graves of Native Americans.
Rex
Jun 2015
#9
Indeed, the Atlantic Coast Slavocracy operated 300 years from New England to Brazil, making
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#49
At what point did the forced labor begin? It reach 20% of the German labor force
HereSince1628
Jun 2015
#14
Correct. Slavs considered inferior were to be worked as a Nazi slave underclass like serfs in
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#45
Eastern Europe and Russia were to be 'cleared out' for Lebensraum, space for white
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#50
For sure, between the laxness towards Nazis by Allies when Russia started becoming a threat,
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#63
Eh, it';s where they originallyt came from, and I wouldn't want to dump toxic trash in Mexico.
ncjustice80
Jun 2015
#118
An excellent book by Jay Winik, "April 1865: The Month that Saved America" . . .
Journeyman
Jun 2015
#15
My straight up, walking in blind, off the top of my head answer is: To avoid Civil War II.
Iggo
Jun 2015
#18
It would be tough to have Civil War II if the leaders of the South were in prison or dead.
yurbud
Jun 2015
#117
The kkk did recover after Grant. they were huge by the 1910's and 20's. But to answer your question
craigmatic
Jun 2015
#30
Would American blacks be better off today if a harsher policy had been followed?
Jim Lane
Jun 2015
#39
So you let loose Sherman, burn every Confed city to the ground, and push the traitors into the sea.
ncjustice80
Jun 2015
#60
The Civil War was fought "brother against brother" and the goal after the CW was to
merrily
Jun 2015
#76
You're thinking of voiding the Confederate debt as an amelioration for the south
Yupster
Jun 2015
#90
I'm thinking of what the 14th Amendment to which you directed my attention clearly says.
merrily
Jun 2015
#91
You should consider putting the information in your posts here into a separate OP. There are many
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#104
Radical reconstruction was pretty radical while it lasted -- MS had the first black Senator
Recursion
Jun 2015
#84
Remember that all of these me served together for years in a very small army.
oneshooter
Jun 2015
#105
We tried but after Grant the anti-reconstruction coalition won and undid those efforts.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2015
#94
The analogy with the catastrophe of de-Baathisation in Iraq is just as sound. N.T.
Donald Ian Rankin
Jun 2015
#106