@seanmdav If it were about Christianity we would see similar flows of migrants into South America. We don't of course, because it is absolutely about race and anti-White hatred and pretending otherwise is ridiculous and distracts from very real injustice occuring.
Check out Thomas Sowell's study of Dunbar High School, a segregated all-black school with average IQ well above the black average, that taught Latin and Greek.
Clarence Thomas also attended a segregated grammar school.
Brown v Board of Education destroyed good black schools.
@CountryBoy_62 Its sad that Andrew and I would probably agree on the majority of the issues plaguing our country yet his disdain for Southerners makes me want to discard all of it.
Jefferson Davis’s accomplishments:
1. Distinguished services in the Black Hawk War.
2. Served valiantly in the war with Mexico.
3. Hero at Monterey; wounded at Buena Vista; scaled the walls of the City of Mexico.
4. He introduced the wedge movement and saved the day at Buena Vista.
5. United States Senator from Mississippi.
6. Secretary of War in Pierce's Cabinet.
7. First to suggest trans-continental railroads connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific.
8. First to suggest camels as ships of the uninhabitable West to convey military stores.
9. First to suggest buying Panama Canal Zone.
10. First to suggest buying Cuba.
11. He planned American trade with China and Japan.
12. He suggested closer relations with South America.
13. He urged preparedness for war.
14. He enlarged the United States Army by four regiments.
15. He organized cavalry service adapted to our needs.
16. He introduced light infantry or rifle system of tactics.
17. He caused the manufacture of guns, rifles and pistols.
18. He rendered invaluable services to Colt's Armory.
19. He ordered the frontier surveyed.
20. He put young officers in training for surveying expeditions.
21. He sent George D. MeClellan to Crimea to study the military tactics of the British and Russian armies.
22. He appointed Robert E. Lee as Superintendent of West Point, he advanced Albert Sidney Johnston to important posts.
23. He had forts repaired and many of them rebuilt.
24. He strengthened forts on the Western frontier, frequently drawing on arsenals in the South to do it.
25. He had the Western part of the continent explored for scientific, geographical and railroad work.
26. He was responsible for the new Senate Hall, the new House of Representatives, and for the extension of many public buildings in Washington, especially the Treasury Building.
27. He was responsible for the construction of the aqueduct system in the Nation's capital.
28. He was responsible for "Armed Liberty" on the Capitol having a helmet of eagle feathers instead of the cap of a pagan goddess.
29. He had Cabin John Bridge built with its span of 220 feet.
30. He was United States Senator under President Buchanan.
31. He was nominated for President by Massachusetts men in 1860.
32. He refused to allow his name to be presented for President at the Charleston Convention.
33. He stood strongly for the Union, but stressed the constitutional right of a State to secede.
Republicans believing they need to apologize for posts rejecting homosexuality shows where we are at yet again - and it’s nowhere good. The good news is I guarantee the comms poster is young. Young people are fed up.