Halloween costumes trigger micro-aggressions in university students.

Really there's so many cartoon and movie characters and creepy or funny costume ideas to choose from, if you have to resort to cultural appropriation or blackface, you're racist AND boring.

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I laughed. I'm not sure how Bernie managed to live through the late 70's early 80's as a liberal and not learn a single solitary thing, but he managed it. I really dislike people who have had something bashed into their head but refuse to learn from it.

 

Stop! I'm getting a case of micro-aggression from that post!

 

Where did white man buy slaves?

 

Lemme just cut you off right there. While yes, slavery was common in African countries before the slave trade began, it wasn't the slavery you know. It was punishment but it wasn't necessarily for life and it wasn't for profit. More like chain gangs in jail. It wasn't until the transatlantic slave trade came along, that it turned from punishment to people actively hunting and capturing other people for money and it did quite the number on their region too.

 

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The type of slavery varied from place to place in Africa. Some were even used as human sacrifice.

If you know your history as you claim,you'll know that slavery was already in the Americas before the white man arrived. Slavery and ethnic cleansing were already in practice by Indians by the time the white man came.

People always say that the white man introduced scalping to the Indians. This is not true. Every culture in the world has a history of scalping. You can Google Crow Creek Massacre Site. Over 500 Crow men,women and children were killed and scalped. This happened 150 years before Columbus.

Indians were no different than any other culture. They fought each other,some times to the point of genocide,and they enslaved each other. There was a famous Indian slave named Sakakawea. Her village was raided by the Hidatsa tribe when she was 12 and she was enslaved. When she was 13,they sold her to a French trapper. The rest is history.

People want Indian mascots and to dress up as Indians because they believe that Indians are noble and brave. This is a racist stereotype. Indians were no different than any other culture in the world.

 

How many slaves were brought to this continent under the Confederate flag?

Which Constitution, USA or CSA, put the first restrictions upon the slave trade?

If governments derive their just powers by the consent of the governed, what does that mean when a group of states points out blatant failures by the federal government to abide by the Constitution which had been ratified by the several states, and therefore certain states decided to revoke their consent to be governed by the USA and instead form their own NEW government (as indicated they have the right to do in the Declaration of Independence) only to have the old country invade and declare war upon the newly formed nation? The South attempted to peaceably seceed and regroup, and a tyrant declared war upon them to "save the union".

Maybe it was your comment I'm guessing made in reference to General Lee (since the article in the OP mentioned him):

Lee didn't start the war. Lincoln did. Lincoln reqested that Lee lead the Union army, and he refused, because his loyalty lied with his home state of Virginia. Back then, the states were sovereign entities unified into one country under the Constitution. Unfortunately, the Constitution was not working for everyone. The federal government would enforce clauses beneficial to the North against the Southern states, but refused to enforce the clauses beneficial to the South against the Northern states. As such, there was a serious breech in the contract between the states, and there is no severability clause in the Constitution...it is an "all or nothing" deal, so the Southern states decided "nothing" was the better deal and they broke away to form a new nation.

Read the various bills passed by the several states detailing the failures of the federal government. Read the Constitution of the Confederate States. Notice the similarities with the US Constitution. Also, take notice of the differences.

 

Who fired on who first?

The easy answer is S Carolina forces everyone's hand by firing on Fort Sumter.

The more challenging answer lies in John Brown's raid, Bleeding Kansas, the annexation of Texas, the Filibusters, Dred Scott, and many other issues.

The South routinely tried to force it's will upon the North, and was largely successful until the 1850s when the South found it's influence fadding.

East Tennessee and West Virginia tried to secede from their respective states - if a state can unilaterally remove itself from a country, why can't a province remove itself from the state?