Just amazes me to see people get so worked up over it. Go to any area and the names/monuments will reflect the history. I’ve lived in Texas half my life and you have a mix of confederate history along with Spain/Mexican history since it was once a part of Mexico.
I remember learning about those concessions. Funny story, recently someone got on my case for saying I want to binge Dukes of Hazard since I haven’t seen it since I was a little kid. They asked me if I was aware what the flag on the car was lol
Because there were a lot of black Confederates. The Union Army treated freed slaves as captured war materiel and used them as combat engineers in the face of the enemy. A chunk of the "freed" slaves defected back to Confederate lines.
I’m actually going to visit some distant white relatives later this year that I met via ancestry.com. Our common ancestor was a confederate plantation owner in Alabama. I guess I could technically join the group
Just amazes me to see people get so worked up over it. Go to any area and the names/monuments will reflect the history. I’ve lived in Texas half my life and you have a mix of confederate history along with Spain/Mexican history since it was once a part of Mexico.
I remember learning about those concessions. Funny story, recently someone got on my case for saying I want to binge Dukes of Hazard since I haven’t seen it since I was a little kid. They asked me if I was aware what the flag on the car was lol
Where I grew up black families fly Confederate Flags just the same as white ones.
Explaining that to "anti-racist" people outside the South is like teaching a toddler calculus. Just blank stares.
Same thing when you tell them there are black members of the Sons of the Confederacy.
Because there were a lot of black Confederates. The Union Army treated freed slaves as captured war materiel and used them as combat engineers in the face of the enemy. A chunk of the "freed" slaves defected back to Confederate lines.
I’m actually going to visit some distant white relatives later this year that I met via ancestry.com. Our common ancestor was a confederate plantation owner in Alabama. I guess I could technically join the group