Martin Luther King Jr., day goes on for ten (10) days until the beginning of the African American History month. 
Along with Dr. King, I also celebrated Stonewall Jackson/ Robert E. Lee Day on Monday as well...........
I do understand that we do have racial bigots in this Country that have their heros too, 
Are you stating that having any respect for Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson would imply someone is racist or a bigot?
but the National Holiday is for MLK Jr.
Well of course not. I promote respect for everyone - even for those that are dead.
Who exactly are you speaking of? What racists and bigots are you saying traditionally respect these civil war giants?
I was just pointing out that those two rebels are traditionally reccognized heroes for racist and bigots.
I see no reason for me to name names.
In todays society most racist and bigots try to hide their racism and their bigotries and I like that.
The idea is for me to expose the sins but not the sinful people.
When persons express their racist and bigoted feelings then they expose themselves.
Both Jackson and Lee were brillient military generals for their time, but they fought for an unjust and immoral cause.
This is a sad part of American history, and it gets to me.
There were blacks that picked the cotton too, and black concubines for the white rapist.
The black soldiers were not fighting for the rebel's racist cause. And even if you or others might believe that the poor ignorant blacks were actually fighting to maintain their own slavery then it makes the sins of the white rebels that much more despicable and dastardly.
Do the pompous whites now say those black soldiers were free and fighting for their own slavery? or the slavery of their own race? Are now the racist whites of today pretending that they were slaves and fighting for the right to remain slaves?
The horrible African slavery was more then just forced physical servitude because the immoral whites psychologically abused the black people with beliefs of inferiority and breaking the black slaves as they do in breaking a horse so that the prisoners give up all of their human rights and their human dignity.
This is an example as to why many rightfully claim that the American African slavery damaged the black race in ways that still keep many of their decendants down to this day.
The self righteous whites broke the slaves will-power and broke their sense of pride and violated their sense of personhood, violated their families, violated their sexes, exploited their children, and even after the war was over the whites continued to degrade and to brake the decendants for another 100 years until the civil rights marches that began a process of repairing the extreme damage done by whites to the African Americans.
The civil rights reforms did not end the white bigotries but it did start the process and there is much more that needs done.
JPC sr said:
Yeah, okay Jimbo.
I almost asked the question (again) how opposing unfairness with more unfairness (i.e., Affirmative Action) is supposed to solve anything, and how supporting all bebe momma's youngins (i.e., welfare) is supposed to teach them independence...JPC sr said:
The Southern States wanted to secede from the USA because of their immoral African slavery. Well that is not what your link says. It says the whites told the African Americans that they would gain their freedom from their slavery if they fought in the war. I did explain in my previous post how the African slaves "soldiers" were violated but that reality is missing from the link you gave. It is a big disgrace, 
The slavery was the reason for the US Civil war.
I can see why some whites want to distant themselves from the ugly past but this kind of dishonesty is the wrong way to do that.
And it seems highly unlikely that the whites would have honored that decietful promise considering the Dred Scot decision of 1857, link HERE.
So where did you get that nonsence about "free" blacks fighting "for" the rebel cause? out of loyalty? as you claim. Give us a link.
You and those pretenders are not doing the black people any favor by printing an incorrect history of our un-civil war.
and even more of a disgrace when some foolish white people try to pretty it up.
The slavery was the reason for the US Civil war.
I can see why some whites want to distant themselves from the ugly past but this kind of dishonesty is the wrong way to do that.
And it seems highly unlikely that the whites would have honored that decietful promise considering the Dred Scot decision of 1857, link HERE.
So where did you get that nonsence about "free" blacks fighting "for" the rebel cause? out of loyalty? as you claim. Give us a link.
You and those pretenders are not doing the black people any favor by printing an incorrect history of our un-civil war.
and even more of a disgrace when some foolish white people try to pretty it up.
I know people like to talk about me and I have no objection to that, and you certainly got one BIG word into your post, but this thread is not about me, I am not the subject of the thread, and so "Lenny" missed the point completely.