Like a hipster

Oh

but less generationally limited

It's no use. The money is used to try to remove Confederate statues and to fund shit like Mayor Stoney's "Black Breastfeeding Week." No, I'm not making this up.

Wow

I mean i dont like confederate statues but removing them is no use

Luckily, I live just (20 minutes) outside of Richmond.

Okay

Oh im a few hours away

hold on

Ok

If we have a fuckin MONUMENT to lincoln then we can keep confederate statues

Nah

Not a good sentence

yeah

Lincoln was a tyrant

Tru

and used slavery as a tool

But most associate him with great things

Robert E. Lee (God bless him) had more objection to slavery then Lincoln

Very tru

I'm actually a descendant of Jefferson Davis.

Wow cool

based and redpilled

According to family lore, that is.

Unconfirmed family lore*

lol

According to my family lore* I am related to Marquis De Laffayette

The thing about the confederacy was there mission

I also looked up genealogy records at my state library and that confirmed it.

based

The confederacy was responding to encroaching federal power

They were not rebelling for slavery itself but the principle of federal superiority

The majority of southerners did not own slaves

especially the men who fought the war

Their primary motive was for their states, their homes.

This is always a fun debate topic when my uncle from Seattle comes to visit.

And against what they saw as the unjust tyranny of the north through the ever expanding federal government

your uncle must be a yankee

He shows up in an Obama shirt a lot.

Washington ruined him.