Quote Originally Posted by -29-:
What's despicable and pathetic is that losers such as Nazis and the KKK have highjacked a noble symbol and tried to make it their own. 
I am a proud Southerner and I choose to display the "Bonnie Blue" or the original Confederate flag as opposed to the "battle flag" so as to not be ignorantly identified as a racist.
And for the narrow minded individuals that don't know any better,there were thousands of blacks that willingly and proudly fought to protect the Confederate flag.Here are a few examples;
Black Confederate heritage is beginning to receive the attention it deserves. For instance, Terri Williams, a black journalist for the Suffolk “Virginia Pilot” newspaper, writes: “I’ve had to re-examine my feelings toward the [Confederate] flag…It started when I read a newspaper article about an elderly black man whose ancestor worked with the Confederate forces. The man spoke with pride about his family member’s contribution to the cause, was photographed with the [Confederate] flag draped over his lap…that’s why I now have no definite stand on just what the flag symbolizes, because it no longer is their history, or my history, but our history.”
Nearly 180,000 Black Southerners, from Virginia alone, provided logistical support for the Confederate military. Many were highly skilled workers. These included a wide range of jobs: nurses, military engineers, teamsters, ordnance department workers, brakemen, firemen, harness makers, blacksmiths, wagonmakers, boatmen, mechanics, wheelwrights, ect.
One black C. S. Navy seaman was among the last Confederates to surrender, aboard the CSS Shenandoah, six months after the war ended. At least two blacks served as Navy pilots with the rank of Warrant Officer. One, William Bugg, piloted the CSS Sampson, and another, Moses Dallas, was considered the best inland pilot of the C.S. Navy. Dallas piloted the Savannah River squadron and was paid $100 a month until the time he was killed by the enemy during the capture of USS Water Witch.
The first military monument in the US Capitol that honors an African-American soldier is the Confederate monument at Arlington National cemetery. The monument was designed 1914 by Moses Ezekiel, a Jewish Confederate. Who wanted to correctly portray the “racial makeup” in the Confederate Army. A black Confederate soldier is depicted marching in step with white Confederate soldiers. Also shown is one “white soldier giving his child to a black woman for protection"- source: Edward Smith, African American professor at the American University, Washington DC
Oh get the fuck off the rocking chair on your porch with the mucus-riddled piece of straw between your 3 remaining teeth and come back into reality you dumbass!
This 'black Confederate soldier' business is a myth constructed by the 'proud southerners' you like to refer to yourself as.
This myth came about to:
A) attempt to make modern day whites believe slavery wasn't "all that bad" because, after all, they did fight to defend the Southern cause
B) promote a lie that is still being taught in American classrooms today: that the war was not fought over slavery hence the recruitment and enlistment blacks to the war cause in the South.
Over 215,000 confederates were captured by the Union. Why were NONE OF THEM BLACK?! Where are these thousands and thousands of black soldiers proudly bearing arms (illegal in the south!) to fight for the rebels...YEE HAW!
Of course, when the Confederacy knew it was about to lose the war ABOUT THREE WEEKS BEFORE IT WOULD END, it quickly recruited blacks to their cause, with empty promises of freedom given a Southern victory (hogwash! The war was fought to PRESERVE slavery!) . A gun, 3 square and freedom to fight the white man, North or South, sounds good to me if I'm black. Where do I sign?
But first, you had to TRAIN THEM! You don't just hand southern slaves muskets and say, SHOOT THAT! They, nor anyone who wasn't trained, wouldn't know the first thing about loading such a gun, nevermind shooting it.
Of course, these recruitments never saw active service. Oh, it is without a doubt there existed a handful of black soldiers for a desperate Confederate cause. Surely, those would be the ones who would be photographed and made into monuments by, you guessed it, other southerners to of course continue promoting myths, only to have you be the first dumbass to point to it and go, "You're wrong. Ya see there! Black as night and in uniform! Ha Ha. Right again!"
I'm gonna go take a shit. When your done with that flimsy dishrag of an excuse for credible journalism called the Virginia Pilot newspaper you quoted, slide it under the door so I can blow blow my nose with the front page and wipe my ass with the back.
So says a Cali person. The Confederacy is part of History, PELOSI....now that's pathetic!!!!! 
That is the funniest thing Ive read in awhile...
THOUSANDS ....yeah, maybe to cheer!!!
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