Setting the Record Straight About George Allen
With all this hoopla about the macaca, the old attacks of George Allen’s confederate sympathies come back. Yes, it’s true George Allen admitted to having a confederate flag in his living room.
Does that make him a racist? Where does that logic come from? The supposed idea that the civil war was fought over slavery, not state’s rights regarding specifically tarrifs on the agricultural South to support the struggling North, a common practice of the times.
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” - Abraham Lincoln, “the man who freed the slaves?”
Actually the Emancipation Proclamation ONLY freed the Southern Slaves over whom he had no control. This was a decisive MILITARY decision, so that black slaves might REBEL in the South.
The slaves in the North were not freed until THREE YEARS LATER
As you can see, the war was NOT over slavery, but state’s rights.
Chew on that liberals!
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