If we are going to do away with anything related to slavery and the Confederacy, then these items should be in the forefront. We should do away with anything having to do with any slave owner. Get rid of Washington D.C. (built by slaves), Washington State, and all Washington counties, towns, and streets. Almost all the founding fathers either had slaves or were involved in the slave trade in one way or another. Cotton and tobacco were the reason for slavery, so they represent slavery and should be done away with.

Of course there is a document which is the crux of the problem since all thirteen colonies signed it and made anyone who wasn’t a European to be worth three-fifths of a white person. One of the secrets of the Second Amendment was the plantation owners wanted to be able to have guns to use during any slave revolt. In our laws of then and today, signing the Constitution would be aiding and abetting slavery.

Slavery was just one factor in the Civil War. Slavery had gotten too expensive, cotton and tobacco had destroyed soil fertility, and the South was in hock to the Northern Banks. Few people fighting for the Confederacy were involved in slavery. Many had never even seen a slave? I have ancestors from Southern Illinois who fought on both sides at Lookout Mountain. They had trouble affording shoes much less a slave. So why did they fight? It is for the same reason many of the radical right groups exist today. They didn’t like the Federal Government telling them what they can and can’t do.

Get real folks; if you want to do something, explain what and why of slavery. Explain the real conditions and not those shown in the movies.