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When one governor declares Confederate History Month without mentioning slavery at all, it sounds pretty bad, but there's a slight chance that it actually was a mistake, and I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt.
When a second governor does the same, after the first became a national news story and involved a presidential rebuke, and then dismisses any criticism as "doesn't amount to diddly," that sounds pretty damn racist, no matter how far you stretch your definition of "benefit of the doubt."
And some people need to study their history a little better:"The War Between the States was fought for the same reasons that the tea party movement today is voicing their opinion. And that is that you have large government that's not listening to the people, there's going to be heavy taxation," Fayard said Monday from his home in Duck Hill. "And the primary cause of the war was not slavery, although slavery was interwoven into the cause, but it was not the cause for the War Between the States."
Mississippi's declaration of secession before the Civil War said: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization."
(the rest of the declaration is in the same vein; it's almost all about slavery, and how much economic value will be lost by freeing slaves)
When a second governor does the same, after the first became a national news story and involved a presidential rebuke, and then dismisses any criticism as "doesn't amount to diddly," that sounds pretty damn racist, no matter how far you stretch your definition of "benefit of the doubt."
And some people need to study their history a little better:"The War Between the States was fought for the same reasons that the tea party movement today is voicing their opinion. And that is that you have large government that's not listening to the people, there's going to be heavy taxation," Fayard said Monday from his home in Duck Hill. "And the primary cause of the war was not slavery, although slavery was interwoven into the cause, but it was not the cause for the War Between the States."
Mississippi's declaration of secession before the Civil War said: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization."
(the rest of the declaration is in the same vein; it's almost all about slavery, and how much economic value will be lost by freeing slaves)