What does the Confederate flag represent to Southerners? Why do people display it?
What does the Confederate flag represent to me?It represents an archaic way of thinking, a time when people who had a different skin color than mine were property and treated like it.It represents hatred and bigotry born in Europe and carried across the pond to be bred in the Southern United States, where I was born and raised.It represents the continued support and petagogy of prejudice, perpetrating ideals which are taught only to separate people and excuse racist behavior and actions.It represents a period of time when the United States and its people were shattered, broken and violently separated over how other humans should be treated.It represents Americans who still don't understand that a simple symbol can still separate, discriminate and hurt. It represents a culture which supports division and discrimination. It represents a group of people who would rather argue about the historic significance of the flag instead of the history associated with it. It represents animosity. It represents death. It represents control. It represents whippings and beatings. It represents rape. It represents tears. It represents blood.It represents a race of people ripped from their homes, thrown into ships, separated from their families and treated worse than animals for generations because of their color. To me, the Confederate flag, in any form or name - Battle, Northern Virgina, Stainless Banner or Stars and Bars - represents the same values, beliefs and ideals as a swastika or ISIS flag.It represents the people who founded my country with beautiful, brave ideas and hope that did not include people who looked different than they did.It represents people who value tradition too much and argue against change. People who forget change is what my country was founded on, what gave women the right to vote and what made the beer they toast with legal. Currently, it represents everything having to do with nine senseless murders in a church by a person who just doesn't like people who look different than he does.
Would you like for North and South Korea to unite?
Hello there, I am a native from South Korea. Currently many South Koreans 'don't want' the two Koreans to be unified because: 1. if it happens, South Korea's economy will GO DOWN<...........since North Korea is SUCH A POOR COUNTRY South Korea needs to spend BILLIONS of money to rebuild the North..(and to do this South Korean people need to work VERY HARD to help the North AND earn a living..) 2. At the moment unification through peace seems unlikely since North Korea keeps threatening to attack the South and the world... (REMEMBER, North Korea has its own nuclear weapon, which is why the United States doesn't attack North Korea..) 3. South Koreans HATE Kim Jong Il, the world's most evil dictator....so for unification to happen Kim Jong Il 'needs to die'. Now, reasons why North and South Korea NEED TO BE reunified: 1. Korea was divided by foreign countries, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The divison had nothing to do with the Korean race and many Korean families were seperated when it happened. 2. Korea used to be one nation that lived in peace until the war broke out in 1950 and destroyed everything...the culture, food, clothing and ideals of Korea need to be restored. 3. Reunified Korea will have a huge population, almost the same as the U.K.'s, Germany's and Japan's. Korea will become a global econoomic power with a lot of wealth and it would be a very great ecomonic and militarian friend of the United States like Japan and the U.K. 4. Korea will finally regain its true state as a peninsula in East Asia; South Korea at the moment is like an island between China and Japan because of isolated North Korea. So, for all I know, Korea NEEDS to be reunified in the near future. That's all I can think of at the moment. Hope that helps..
How successful was the Union in reincorporating the southern states and people?
Judging by the number of Confederate flags,bumper stickers,T-shirts and so on one sees still today in ex Confederate states - hardly at all.
Why do people treat Lincoln like he is a demigod?
I know you guys are gonna say he ended slavery but we could have ended it without destroying lives and killing hundreds of thousands by just buying up the slaves like every other civilized country did. Abolitionists(Lysander Spooner comes to mind) proposed this to little avail and as a result many were serious critics of Lincoln.
3 history questions WITH picture; need help. 10 points for best answer?
1.) Although Reconstruction failed to accomplish many of its goals, which of the following was one successes of the Reconstruction era? A.) The southern economy was quickly restored to pre-Civil War levels. B.) Freed slaves were able to achieve economic stability equal to their white counterparts. C.) Blacks achieved and maintained equal levels of political participation. D.) Southern states were reincorporated into the Union. 2.) Which option below best describes the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments on the United States after Reconstruction? A.) The amendments were stepping stones to economic equality for African Americans in the South by the early 1800's. B.) These laws gave land to African Americans by taking it from former slaves, making African Americans wealthy in the South. C.) The amendments were rarely enforced in the South and African Americans did not experience legal equality until the 1950's and 1960's. D.) The country became divided, resulting in African Americans finding equality only in the South 3.) Which best describes Lincoln’s message in this section of the Gettysburg Address? A.) The nation would soon form a new government. *PICTURE INCLUDED* B.) Democracy and the United States would last. C.) An educated citizenry was essential to freedom. D.) The war would not last much longer.
Was the Union far too generous in it's terms with the Confederacy? Looking at the South now, they seem very ungrateful.
If you're going to fight the bloodiest war in your nation’s history to keep part of your country from seceding, it's probably not very smart to just flat out destroy and burn what you just fought to keep. Even so, a lot of that did happen with Sherman. Smart conquerors don't just torture their newly conquered people out of spite. That is how you lose an occupation. The Union sought to reincorporate the South into the Union, not turn it into a colony.The South was completely devastated by the war. It would never fully recover from this, but some, like Lincoln, wanted it to and did make an effort. And one of the smart things people like him in the Union did was selectively allow the South to keep their heroes. Robert E. Lee was a great choice. Why? Because he did not want the South to secede in the first place and when the South surrendered, it was people like him that advocated against starting a guerilla war that could have lasted who knows how long. Instead, Lee advocated that Southerners now view themselves as Americans again.I’m not really sure what you have done differently. As for the South being “ungrateful”, why would you expect the people who you just invaded and defeated to be grateful to you? Especially when, as stated before, life became much harder for much of the South and you had opportunistic carpetbaggers coming down from the North to take advantage of the situation.The South today mostly just wants to be left alone. They're despised by the media and popular culture and are can be pretty defensive when it comes to outsiders because of that.