Comments on: Racism, hate and intolerance http://www.blueridgemuse.com/node/1434 News, views and musings from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:20:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lamont G Sible Jr http://www.blueridgemuse.com/node/1434/comment-page-1#comment-2510 Lamont G Sible Jr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-2510 The simple fact that one wears a Confederate uniform to an event, (ever hear of reenactors?), does not make one a racist. Because one chooses not to believe in Northern mythology about History, (Washington & the cheery tree myth or Lincoln fighting the war to free the slaves)also doesnt make one a Racist. [I doubt this will be placed on this 'blog', & I also think a number of 'bloggers' are the same person] But, here is what Lincolns Attorney General wrote:[which is not taught in Northern highschools.] [Quoting] Edward [Bates] returned to Virginia to sell his father’s estate, auction off any family slaves he would not transport to Missouri, and arrange to escort his mother and his older sister Margaret on the long overland journey. “The slaves sold pretty well,” he boasted to Frederick, “a young woman at $537 and a boy child 5 years old at $290!” …….Finally with his female relatives ensconced in a carriage and more than twenty slaves following on horseback and on foot, the little party set forth on an exasperating, difficult expedition. Source-”Team of Rivals”-Doris Kearns Goodwin, pages 45-46, Copyright - 2005 by Blithedale Productions, Inc., ISBN-13: 978-0-684-82490-1; ISBN-10 0-684-82490-6 BTW- Mr. Gary Walker is NOT a racist, and his books are based on historical facts! The simple fact that one wears a Confederate uniform to an event, (ever hear of reenactors?), does not make one a racist. Because one chooses not to believe in Northern mythology about History, (Washington & the cheery tree myth or Lincoln fighting the war to free the slaves)also doesnt make one a Racist. [I doubt this will be placed on this 'blog', & I also think a number of 'bloggers' are the same person] But, here is what Lincolns Attorney General wrote:[which is not taught in Northern highschools.]
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Edward [Bates] returned to Virginia to sell his father’s estate, auction off any family slaves he would not transport to Missouri, and arrange to escort his mother and his older sister Margaret on the long overland journey. “The slaves sold pretty well,” he boasted to Frederick, “a young woman at $537 and a boy child 5 years old at $290!”

…….Finally with his female relatives ensconced in a carriage and more than twenty slaves following on horseback and on foot, the little party set forth on an exasperating, difficult expedition.

Source-”Team of Rivals”-Doris Kearns Goodwin, pages 45-46, Copyright – 2005 by Blithedale Productions, Inc., ISBN-13: 978-0-684-82490-1; ISBN-10 0-684-82490-6

BTW- Mr. Gary Walker is NOT a racist, and his books are based on historical facts!

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