reckoning. the problem started first immediately after the war. if you want north and south to get together and get along again, you don t talk about causes and consequences. you talk about the mutual valor on that battlefield. why doesn t that confederacy, which only lasted four years, just go away? the racial reasons are paramount, but it also has do with this idea that the confederacy was a dissent. man, they went to the limit, and they deserve respect for all that courage. they claim after they lost that they were only reacting to the overreach of centralized federal power, and there s a kind of admiration for that still in our
should not do. and ever since the war, no one s property has been secure. there s a lot of talk of reparations for slaves, you know. my great-great-grandfather, nobody paid abraham lincoln emancipated the slaves. he didn t get paid. the war to prevent southern independence changed our country for the worst in my opinion. and what do you think? do you think the war changed the country for the worst? i m trying to process everything. i do understand parts of what my father is speaking on because i feel that way, that the government is too big and has too much power. it s an invasion. but how long would it have taken to free the slaves? how long would it have taken for them to realize that slavery is
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is teaching is teaching the civil war. you re telling stories about my ancestry, about my family, about my country in the south. and tell me what the untrue thing is. slavery. they are not telling the whole story. slavery was one of the reasons, but for that professor to say that economics had nothing to do with that war is totally false. i would have fought for the south. you know why? it had nothing to do with political reason. it s because my home was being invaded. the confederacy lost this war big time. no americans have ever lost a war quite like the confederacy lost this war.
wrong? do you think slavery left an imprint on the mind-set of people in america? sure it left an imprint. i m saying the war left more of an imprint. that s my personal opinion. for black and white. yes. so you feel like the war itself was a bigger aggression than slavery. yes. it feels like you re dismissing the experience of millions of enslaived people. it feels like you re not feeling what they experienced at the hands of the people who were enslaving them. i mean how is treating people as property not a greater horror? well, my feeling was was it was a settled way of order. they had laws that they had to live up to and had forced on them and treat them civilly. i don t hate james mcgill.