While the Brits love to take the high road on eliminating slavery before the colonists, the road they were taking wasn't that high, considering they were active in taking over entire countries as colonies for the century that followed. Not very altruistic if you ask me.
"Who needs slaves? We'll just take India!"
Fine. I added an avatar so that I wouldn't offend anyone by not having one...
And why in America are Hispanics treated as a different race? In Europe the Spanish are the same as Italians.
Probably because in the U.S. MOST " Hispanics" are of South or Central American origin, and those folks are of mixed (Spanish and Native American). blood lines.
See, I didn't go crazy... Of course I was too busy gagging from the stench.
Let's be frank, however-- all the North, Britain or anyone else had to do to really harm slavery was to NOT BUY COTTON. I'm not defending the institution, but all this "the war was fought to free the poor black folks" is simply a latter day scam, a sort of Son of "I'm not racist! Why some of my best friends are Black."
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"When the going gets weird
The Weird turn pro."
-- Hunter S Thompson, True American
We turning this into the fourth of July thread again? Cool!
Don't know where to start. The confederate flag symbolizes a dark time in America's history where a bunch of southern states left and created the confederate states of America (there were multiple reasons why they did so, but the biggest one of course was slavery) and that was their flag, and then the north fought them to stay in what would become the worst war in American history. Yes the flag should be banned. Someone beat me to the swastika reference, but you can't go waving a Nazi flag around in Germany, can you?
The American flag symbolizes freedom, as it was created when we were the first country to ever gain independence from another (correct me if I'm wrong, don't know if we were the first). Japanese internment and manifest destiny were of course times in our history where we messed up, but our flag has absolutely nothing to do with it and doesn't symbolize those events in any way.
And finally, yes, of course America imperialized.. guess who we learned it from?
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