I can see honoring their dead but personally they committed treason against the union and the whole war thing has been going on too long. Honor your dead but not the confederate government.
2007-05-30 04:37:10 · 10 answers · asked by margie s 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
It's just stupid. Gosh..confederates are poor losers--indicative word is losers. Hell No.
Saying you want a conferderate day is like Brits in America wanting a Boston tea party day.
Confederate flag bearers and people who still hang on to the old racists-slave trading mentality would be hilarious if they weren't so serious and dangerous with trying to maintain a civil war grudge for 200 years!!!!
GET OVER IT!
2007-05-30 05:15:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is kind of a slippery slope. Just off the bat I am a civil war history buff and an ancestory of mine fought for the Union in the Civil war as well. I do not agree with the idea of secession, especially to form a confederacy, since America had it's chance as a confederacy, under the Articles of Confederation and that government failed miserably.
I see where this opens a lot of wounds, but the fact is that you can't change history. Just because people want to honor/remember the dead or the brave for that matter, does not mean they support slavery or anything like that. In fact, 70% of Southern families did not even own slaves, yet the same people chose to still fight for the south.
My point is there is a much larger issue here and it isnt always as cut and dry. Some of America's greatest military leaders were confederates as well. They were not traitors either. The lines get blurred with treason when you are fighting your own people. The roots of the American Civil war were planted all the way back in 1787 when our founding fathers wrote the new constitution and chose not to come to terms with slavery, as it was just as a divisive issue back then.
I really dont think they need to add a holiday to worship a government that seceded from the Union and started a war, I was just stating people get offended when someone wants to honor a confederate.
2007-05-30 11:52:06 · answer #2 · answered by DAVIDRZR 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The huge majority of Confederate soldiers were not slave owners. The war was simply one of the seceding states wanting to decide their own path instead of a central government that was intent on ruling for (instead of) the People.
The war was not fought to end slavery but to end states entering the Union as slave states. Apparently many here believe the revisionist history that slavery was THE reason for the war; it wasn't.
That said, I still believe the federal government should receive it's power FROM the states, not rule over them. As such, each state should have a right to have holidays and to honor whatever they wish in spite of federally mandated, politically correct activities, including unpopular ones.
2007-05-30 12:29:41 · answer #3 · answered by Phil #3 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree.
This is the only nation in the world that allows a regime that split apart from the whole to honor itself.
If I had Confederate relatives, I too, would be trying to honor them.
But the Georgia legislature? That is going too far...
It is akin to me riling up my fellow Texans and getting our state and Oklahoma, Arizona, Arkansas, and Nevada seceded and then fighting a bloody war and then several years later people wanting to commemorate that..
2007-05-30 12:07:24 · answer #4 · answered by soulflower 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that they need to get over the fact that they lost the Civil War. And if you want my opinion, I don't know why they'd be proud of fighting for such an evil cause. They're lucky that they're allowed to celebrate their treasonous history without being mobbed and lynched in the streets, which is what the ex-Confederate racists did to white and black people who voted Republican during Reconstruction.
2007-05-30 11:48:03 · answer #5 · answered by TheOrange Evil 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They have and have had for some time confederate memorial day
2007-05-30 11:40:40 · answer #6 · answered by booman17 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can not think of anything that would be better.
"Honor your dead but not the confederate government."
Give me one reason why we can not honor the GREAT MEN that fought and died for something they believed in. Those men fought and died for the Confederate States.
You need to realize ,,the cannons are still POINTED NORTH
GEORGIA,,I SALUTE YOU
2007-05-30 11:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by jose 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
they use the rebel flag for their state flag. I don't know...on one hand, georgia was horribly victemized by the north during the civil war...on the other hand, IT WAS ABOUT 150 YEARS AGO....IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON!!!!!!!!!
2007-05-30 11:46:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why don't they just call it "let's bring back racism day" or "white power day". Some people refuse to leave the ugly past alone for lack of education, manners, or common sense.
2007-05-30 11:50:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
vote on it...power to (the most) people
2007-05-30 11:40:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋