NCarolinaCMF@aol.com wrote: > > And they did indeed enslave our Southern ancestors after the war during the > Reconstruction Era. That era was the lowest, filthiest and most demonic period ----------------------------- Well, gee. I've been hearing for the past several years from die-hard Rebs that slavery wasn't all that bad. In fact, the way they tell it, it was all quite wonderful, and Ol' Massa was just doing the blacks a favor. So, what gives? Is slavery good or bad? Make up your mind. ------------------------------ > > It was a genocide and a holocaust of a whole people. ----------------------------- I'm mainly of Irish descent, with a Scottish line thrown in for good measure; I'm also been well versed and personally aware of what went on in the 20th century, so I know exactly what genocide and holocausts are. Kindly don't try to pass off the CW/Recon era as genocide, 'cause I ain't buying. ------------------------------ > > It began with Lincoln and continued > with Thaddeus Stephens, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Butler and other Federal > officers acting through a host of carpetbaggers and scalawags... ----------------------- You mean like James Longstreet and John S. Mosby? ------------------------ > > The vicious, revengeful radical Northern Republicans caused whatever > and wherever bad race relations still exist in our country today. ----------------------- And the Lord said, " 'You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!' The man replied, 'The woman whom _YOU_ put here with me - _SHE_ gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.' ... To the man He said ... 'Cursed be the ground because of you!" (Gen 3:11-12, 17; NAB, my emphasis). Attempting blame transfer doesn't cut mustard with the Big Guy - just gets Him more angry. ------------------------ > > Reconstruction produced legitimate fear and anger in the war-torn > and politically deprived South. -------------------- Yeah. Imagine the nerve of all those uppity blacks being on the sidewalk and having to say "'scuse, please". Oh, my! The horror! The horror! -------------------- > > It caused the enactment later of many of the Jim Crow Laws in the South. -------------------- Bad news, Carolyn; I grew up in Florida during the 50s/60s and saw what was going on. Bigots and haters don't need a reason, just a target; the rest is just so much rationalization. 9/11 should have taught you that. ---------------------------- > > ...political correctness... ----------------------------- PC has become just an overused, trite phrase used by whiners with their own agenda that they wish to impose on everyone else, and I weary of it. ----------------------------- > > We must never forget what General Robert E. Lee told the Governor of Texas > privately during the horrors of the Reconstruction Era: -------------------------- And that Douglas Freeman didn't put much stock in the story. Saying it over and over again doesn't give it more credibility. Dennis