COUPLE REACTS To The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1)
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Why this video doesn't show is Lincoln has slaves in the White House and war wasn't really about slavery. No offense.
"Then send him more! (whiskey)"
Probably my favorite part from the video.
I think of all the content to react to on UA-cam, anything related to history is probably best. We have a foggy recollection of our history, not jus tin the US, but as a species in the planet. We don’t really know our history and it’s our history that drives so much of the things going on in the world today.
Exactly! And at this point I feel like we are going back to school learning on UA-cam and reacting at the same time! It’s fun this way
28:33 that’s true. Lee wrapped some of his battle plans into cigars and gave them to messengers on horseback to deliver to his officers. We believe one such cigar with the plans fell out of a messenger’s saddle bag while riding, where it was found by Union scouts.
28:12
I have learned that, while I haven't directly used history in my day-to-day life, my understanding of history has definitely shaped my understanding of modern conflicts.
Politics are inseparable from history, and vice versa.
Oversimplified makes totally AMAZING videos in thier channel, history made comprehensive and totally makes u binge on it.
A man forgetful of his past is a man destained to relive it.
Man knows of his past but, doesnt care. He wants to relieve it anyway.
@@sparklingdaisy3169 while I somewhat agree you be surprised to what degree people are clueless when it comes to stuff like science and history
@@thundy9124 especially history.
27:32 I researched this as part of my masters thesis. This was known as the Trent Affair, and it’s as close as the U.K. ever got to entering the war on the south’s side. Two confederate diplomats, named Mason and Slidell, evaded the union blockade to go to London and convince the government of PM Lord Palmerston to provide further aid to the confederacy (the Palmerston government was already providing the confederacy with uniforms, guns, ammunition, and even entire battleships for the confederate navy). Mason and Slidell boarded the British mail carrier RMS Trent in Havana. Though the US navy had been told to give up the search if they boarded a British ship, the USS San Jacinto, under the command of Captain Wilkes, tracked down the Trent, fired two warning shots, boarded the ship, and arrested Mason and Slidell.
The news of the Trent Affair outraged the British government. Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell (already a staunch confederate sympathizer) pressured Lord Palmerston to seek a declaration of war against the USA. Palmerston sent an additional ten thousand troops to Canada and issued an ultimatum: Mason and Slidell must be released and sent to Britain or there would be war.
President Lincoln disliked Mason and Slidell for being slave owners and, much to the chagrin of Secretary of State William Seward, wanted both men to be hanged. Lincoln brought the matter before his cabinet, and when all the cabinet members said they should give in to the British demands and release the diplomats, Lincoln (to Seward’s significant surprise) agreed. When Seward asked the president why he suddenly changed his mind, Lincoln replied “I found I could not construct an argument that would satisfy my own mind. This told me your ground was the correct one” (further evidence that governance is a lost American art). Mason and Slidell were released from prison and put on a British battleship, and with that, the Trent Affair was over.
Dude you literally saved me from research required to write my thesis 😂😂
@@Jenny-ed8fk I’m happy to help, though I’d still recommend hunting down primary sources. It’s been a few years, but I recall finding some of the information in “the Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell,” edited by George Peabody Gooch. Russell was a real piece of work. Prior to being Palmerston’s foreign secretary, he was once prime minister himself. His mishandling of the potato blight in Ireland caused thousands to die and his whole political party to collapse, all due to his callousness (“Alas!” Russell wrote in a letter, “the Irish have been taught many bad lessons, but few good ones!) suffice to say, this callousness carried over into his handling of relations during the American civil war.
@@lazymansload520 thank you☺️
Great reaction to a humorous video about a tough subject. I've seen this series and part two is just as good as part one. You should do more of this kind of stuff that's entertaining and informative at the same time.
For sure! This was a pleasant surprise with this video so we would be happy to check out more of these videos.
I know it's just a simplified overview but it still irritates me that he dismissed Winifield Scott as a fat old man who was too old to run the military. When they show the plan to defeat the South, they showed a snake going up the Mississippi river. That was the Anaconda Plan devised by Scott. Everyone hated him for it because the northern people and politicians expected the North to just march into Richmond and put down the rebellion easily. Scott was talking about a long, drawn out process that would take years. But ultimately, the North won the war by sticking to his plan pretty much exactly.
@Jeremy Harmon another word would be closer.
@Jeremy Harmon I’m partial to John Brown and Theodore Parker, but I see the appeal.
@@Souledex now John brown was a crazy butcher, but hey. That’s a folk hero for ya
@@samsmith4242 At least he freed slaves and killed their oppressors. I'd rather have a crazed man do something right than a crazed nation doing the wrong thing everyday.
@@fatty1040 like I said that’s a folk hero for ya
This is one of my favorite videos from Oversimplified. Thanks for sharing this and I hope you watch part 2 soon :)
The reason it was left out of the DoI is because 2 states wanted to phase it out as opposed to cold turkey. Then the Cotton Gin was made with the intention of needing less people to do the job. $ overruled what they previously said.
Great vid guys you should do more like this
We plan on checking out more for sure!
@@JustinDorseyTV This is how I found your channel lol
What are you talking about? They didn’t do anything. They just watched another channel’s video. This is theft.
@@TheUser808 Hahaha theft? They never said it was there video they said it was Oversimplifieds video. There just reacting to it
@@anneboonchuysgirlfriend1858, don’t be a tool. They’re stealing views. They didn’t add anything creative or insightful and even minimized themselves to emphasize the video they are watching. This does not constitute fair use and they should get a strike for this.
yeah. i would love to see you react to more Oversimplified videos.
BTW Grace Bedell convincing Lincoln to grow beard is true. She didn't say he was "hella ugly" but few weeks before election she wrote him that she likes him but that he could improve his appearance if he would let his "whiskers grow". it's a really interesting story. Their exchange in letters and Lincoln even visiting her shows the real character and how kind he was.
WW1 and WW2 oversimplified are great as well
Thanks for showing this vid! I like what you guys do; however, I also like you added a serious one to the mix.
It maybe long but he did a remarkable job of putting a extremely complex history in this 2 part video. Not actually oversimplifying too much.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!
The goodfellas reference was amazing
Awesome love you guys are doing this. After this can you please do oversimplified the American Revolution? That’s my favorite one.
The Lincoln family summer home is near me in Manchester Vermont. The hildene house, it’s cool there. Even rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Todd Lincoln and Abe himself. They have one of his stove pipe hats on display there
You should watch oversimplified French Revolution, awesome video!
Please do part two
You know it's a polarizing issue when Congressional leaders start strappin.
Could you picture that on CSPAN today?
pt II is rad!
Can't wait for the Cold War video
We are checking that one out soon for sure!
@@JustinDorseyTV before Cold War def watch WW2 oversimplified first
14:02 True Story. There was a little girl who told him that she thought he would look better in a beard. I think it was through a letter, maybe.
You two are fun to listen to.
I’ve watched a few of these reactions oversimplified are usually very quiet this channel knows how to grab attention
When are you guys gonna do a part 2?! The parts been out! ^^
With only this video, I subscribe to your channel :)
The voice over spokesperson in the slimming chocolate ad sounds just like Judge Judy.
I grew up in the 90s I was civil war buff I. 4th grade they didn't teach it till 8th grade I was so excited to get to that part.of history and then so disappointed that it was only 2 on our social studies book when the tea pot dome scandal was like a whole chapter
I recommend a talk by Jeff Robinson on the ACLU page with the title The Truth About the Confederacy. It's an excellent lecture, and he's a pleasant speaker.
I like how most people reacting to this don't get the " Goodfellas" reference at 19:45 lol
History is important because it helps you understand the world today. Not only do you have a complete picture of how we got to where we are, but you will recognize patterns from history of things that are going on today. And when you recognize those parallels, you have a more clear picture of where we're heading. So it not only helps you understand the past and the present, but also the future.
I think it would be great if they started out the section about the Civil War in History class with showing Oversimplified's video on it as a "ok, here's a summary, and then we'll get into details after..." kids would be so much more interested, and might actually learn something. lol
nice this is a good channel i hit the like button and the subscribe button
thanks for liking this comment
He left out that Lee agonized over his decision, though in the end he was firmly a Virginian first, so when Virginia left, so did he. Also living in Springfield, MO, only a few miles from Wilson's Creek, while that was a Confederate win, the Confederate forces were so weak from that battle that the Union won the battle of Springfield not too long after that. Also, Missouri's elected government had officially joined the Confederacy, however the Union army headed by General Nathanial Lyon (who died at Wilson's Creek, and we have a monument to him in our National Cemetery in Springfield) had put the Confederate state government on the run where they hid out in Arkansas. The Union army then put in place a provisional pro-Union state government, which is how it remained until the end of the war.
Sorry for being so long winded... this is kind of my area of knowledge...
if Lee was on the side of the north the war probably would of ended way sooner, though slavery may have lasted longer due to the lack of need to end it for the sake of foreign interest in the south.
Got to respect a man who can say "oversimplification".
OverSimplified and Overly Sarcastic are some great channels for videos like this. Also the channel Extra Credits, they have a series called Extra History you'd like if you enjoyed this :)
22:00 that why you need recon unit in the army isn't it.
I never knew that England had considered intervening in the civil war, on behalf of the south no less, because they wanted the cotton supply to continue. Thats crazy. Can you imagine if they had decided to be allies with the South? The North might very well have lost.
As I'm watching this, I have a Deku shirt on😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💚
Love how you don’t say “white people are the devils!!!!!”
But Instead, you just sit and laugh while watching
Once you finish part two, I'd definitely recommend more Oversimplified. Like the Battle of the Bucket or Emu War, among others.
Here's something interesting when it comes to Texas joining the CSA- Not ALL Texans wanted to join. Like our governor at the time, Sam Houston (major figure in Texas Independence and is the person which our largest city is named after), was against fully leaving the Union, but there was enough support by others to join the CSA. I am sadden that the state I am from did join the CSA but it's nice to know not everyone was like that.
Honestly I'm just glad all states are back in the Union.
Little known fact, Many people from southern states that didn't agree with secession and/or slavery actually joined the union army and there were full Union regiments made up of people from southern states. The 1st and 2nd Texas Calvary regiments are 2 examples.
@@Marcus21H Yep it's true. I have a book about my German Ancestors that settled in Bastrop County and even though slavery existed in the county none of my ancestors owned a slave due to their religious beliefs, plus they were new settlers at the time looking for their own religious freedom (they were Catholic). I read that a number of them did join the Union Army and in the Rockne Museum, I think there are a few Civil War artifacts.
Nice reaction 👍, maybe the webcam should be bigger than the video you guys reacting, so we can see your reactions better
We decided to switch it up on this video so people could watch the video more, we usually do it the other way around.
19:50 Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas reference.
This video is leaving out too much and obviously one sided
Those who dont know history are bound to repeat it
so theres that, its not just knowledge, its a warning and record of human nature to guide us on what not to do or what to do
Why is Baby Lincolns speech removed?
One thing he makes a mistake on is the orginal reason for the war. Southern crops such as cotton and tobacco at the time were becoming much sought after the world over. This gave the southern plantations a large amount of income and influence the northern government couldn't control which was leading major friction. While the large plantations owned slaves the majority of the south were just simple poor farmers and many were turning against the idea of slavery before the war started. Even the Confederate general Robert E Lee refused the practice and when his dad died leaving him his plantation he freed the slaves who lived there.
No
And John Brown and co. Used broadswords at the Potawatomi Massacre
The point of learning history isn't to "use it", but to avoid repeating mistakes and to understand how things came to be, as well as develop a cultural identity.
For example, I think it's interesting that although the ancient Roman Empire had slaves, they looked at them completely differently. There were only two types of slaves in the Roman Empire. Those captured in battle and a few people who actually sold themselves into slavery to pay a debt. To ensure their wife and children had enough to survive on, for example. That was rare though. There was nothing racial about Roman slaves. Also, the children of their slaves were free, and could even become citizens. That's a huge contrast to slavery in America (which was started by the UK BTW), where they saw slaves as cattle. The whole concept of black people being an "inferior race" was invented by slavers and taught to society, exactly the way the concept of "don't rat to the police" was and is taught by gangs in modern society. That concept did not exist until the gangs decided to start teaching it, for obvious reasons.
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There’s still 9 million African slaves in the Middle East and East African today
Interesting I learned more in one video on this witch is this also most countries had slaves remember that too and the worst was Irish slavery trade
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Irish slaves? I think you're confusing slavery with indentured servants.
on what witch? (which witch?)
30:15 No. let us know YOUR thoughts. That’s why we watch reactions….
sold, not stolen.
If you're interested in civil rights history I recommend researching Ulysses s Grant and Fredrick Douglass
People who dont learn history are doomed to repeat it...Ow wait and yesterday.
Everyone should read “uncle tom’s cabin”, I know it’s an insult to black people know but it so shouldn’t be. Uncle Tom in the book was an older black slave but also a genuinely loving and good man who was kind and caring even to white children despite all the cruelty and evil of slavery. It’s a great story.
You two should react to Oversimplified Cold War videos...
People today still show more loyalty to there state then to the nation its still north vs south
Robert E Lee..first crack addict of the 1800's
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Oversimplified is usually pretty accurate in his videos, but he does gloss over some stuff, like Africans were "stolen" from Africa < not entirely true. Africans sold their own people to the Europeans, so it is not clear on whether the Europeans would have forcefully taken Africans from Africa and bring them to the new land, if the Africans did not want to sell their own people. The US could have been a very different country, possibly not the power that it is today.
Why is it in 2020 George McClellan pisses me off? Easily one of the most incompetent generals in American history.
Because it's Joe Biden.
@@rg20322 more like trump. (all talk and boasting, lacking in competence)
check out their series about the sànish flu
Wait...this isn't Family Guy...😂
Lol we had to mix it up a little more than we have been.
Why you skipping some stuff though?
B r u h
Crazy to think slavery was once normal and acceptable in the U.S. I'm not American but it sounds insane
The second-oldest written record in history is the sale of two slaves.
Damn. 30 min video to condense years' worth of history, war, politics, and loss - "sooo lonnnnng". Social media really is destroying our attention spans.
I remembered more of this than I did in years worth of sitting in boring history classes 😂
"Stolen from their homelands"
No no no no no, they were *SOLD* by their own countries/villages
13:08 You know history is fucked up when slavers feel opressed lol.
They left an important note out of that video......the north was Republican, the south was Democrat
Its all over that video. Mentioned multiple times.
turns out positions swap, there is a reason the south is republican and the north is democratic now. (though when you look at every election, you realize how much things actually change) ask most southern republicans about Lincoln, I doubt they like him.
Literally was mentioned a handful of time but alright go off
Well that was selective history at the end there. The UK ended slavery before the US did.
There are a few sites that have made videos like this that present the North as "free" and not having slaves. People need to really take a look at the Emancipation Proclaimation and some other stuff.
Reaction videos are straight up theft. Especially videos like this where you, the supposed source of the new and distinct creative work, are not the focus. You can’t even dispute that claim since you are minimized.
I think the actual civil was was shorter than this video.
Although it was really interesting.
Not as Funny as every week end in Chicago
grant didn't "throw his men at the rebles" during the battle of shiloh
And how do these people feel about still voting for Democrats?
The parties had switched platforms a long time ago, back then Trump would be considered a Democrat. Seriously learn history.
@@Zanderreaper When were Republicans pro slavery? Democrats today enslave blacks with generational welfare, and it's getting worse. Now they are open about socialism. Seriously turn off CNN
@@AdventureNa many Southern Republicans are sympathetic towards the csa. Wanting social programs is not socialism, what Democrats are trying to do is initiate social programs and have a mixed economy like the Nordic countries, but saying welfare is slavery is straight up stupid.
Um they weren't stolen from their land they were sold by they very own government well tribe king at the time...
Economies are demand driven.
@@oaajbs when the dutch showed up to trade.... the tribal king had slaves he had taken in wars with nearby tribes and offered them as things they could trade.... the dutch did not go there specifically looking for slaves. Slavery was already a thing there....it was not invented by the dutch.
I'm not trying to portray the dutch as good guys in the situation, they should have never traded for slaves.... but trying to magically wash away the responsibility of the tribal kings who had already been taking and keeping slaves for a very long time is b.s.
And I think thats the point the original poster might have been getting at.
Little things are slipped into videos like this trying to lessen the burden for this group or that group and its dishonest....and its easy to miss if you aren't "awake" to it.
For instance..... we know republican as being red and democrat as being blue.
But did you notice that in the video, they colored the southern states as red and northern states as blue? Maybe a little intentional smoke and mirrors to act subliminally on the viewer? Slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, Senator Robert Byrd..... all pro-slavery, racist and Democrat.
@@charliefoxtrotsky4104 The democratic party today isn't the same party that it was in the 1800s.
The Republican party was originally pretty liberal and today the Klan votes Republican.
@@0816M3RC you know...I keep hearing that from people but it was the DNC who had a klan member to the day he died a few years ago.... someone both hillary and biden described as a mentor. Robert Byrd. so, they keep saying that, but the facts don't fit.....we ain't talking about the 1800s....KKK clansman Senator Robert Byrd was a Democrat Senator to the day he died in 2010...... 10 years ago, not the 1800s.
@@charliefoxtrotsky4104 So one racist politician makes the entire party racist?
Besides Byrd's views on race changed over time. Are people not allowed to change?
He left the Klan and even called joining it one of his greatest mistakes and even encouraged young people interested in politics to avoid the Klan.
Is he considered to forever be a member of the Klan because he joined?
People make mistakes.
and who knows how much of this was made up.
Actually.....
One of the top reasons for it be called, "the war of northern aggression" is because since the other forts that the csa had started taking, the men at fort sumter said no. Which the south took as act of aggression
Actually....
The south fired the first shot.
I know that......it just before Sumter they were taking forts along the way with no resistance...and when the boys at Sumter no......they took that as a act of aggression and then they fired and took it by force....
Here
1: January 4th, 1861. Anticipating Alabama's immediate secession. Governor A.B Moore ordered the state militia to seize federal property at mount Vernon arsenal. Fort Morgan and fort Gains effectively putting Mobile bay in Confederate control
2: January 6th, a group of armed men barged into the federal arsenal at Apalachicola, Florida. And demanded the keys to the armory
3: January 10th, weeks before Louisiana's secession, state militia seized the u.s arsenal at baton rouge on orders from the governor. The following day they seized forts Jackson and St. Philip which guarded the mouth of the Mississippi.
4: January 13th, armed Mississippians took forcible control of the unfinished federal fort on ship island
5: January 24th, Georgia militia seized the Augusta arsenal
6: February 8th, acting on orders from the governor, Arkansas militia seized the federal arsenal at little rock and escorted federal troops
7: March 6th, the provisional Confederate Congress authorised Davis to raise a army of 100k for 12 months service.
8: April 12, south Carolina militia fired upon fort Sumter
9: April 15th, president Lincoln called for a 75k for 3 months service to suppress the rebellion
See? All these forts, but sumter was the one who said no, the csa took that as an act of aggression, fired and the war started.....
Just because they "took it" as an act of aggression, doesn't mean it was. Sumter wasn't lobbing shells at anyone. South was....and then they got what they deserved a few years later. Well....maybe we should have let Sherman visit a few more states. But what's done is done. Just don't be apologetic for traitors and try to present a distorted view of what actually happened.
Im not arguing....I'm not even apart of the south....I'm just also adding evidence why the south called it
The war of northern aggression
@@FlyingTooFast Ok. I respect that. And glad that someone else appreciates history. And I didn't realize how many military posts surrendered to the south previous to Sumter. Definitely something to look into. Thank you.
If you guys like history and war Kings and Generals is way better and a lot isn’t right of oversimpled videos. He doesn’t give the right information. Basically he isn’t a good history teacher lol that’s why he make UA-cam videos. 😂
This reaction was terrible. You just sat there. You might as well just reupload his videos without your faces on it
There not even reacting what is this
12:40 this is why these videos are mostly meant for children, they over simplify to a misunderstanding level. It wasn’t victim mentality, they didn’t want a federal ruling stating how individual states can decide how they can enact or ban slavery. It was a war of states rights. Not victim mentality lol. The obvious lack of neutrality comes out
Keyword: Oversimplified
This is awful
Democrats.... Really?
@outdoor fun Not quite right. The parties actually flipped their politics in the 20th century. The Republican party today are more like the Southern Democrats from the Civil War era. Lincoln would no doubt be a Democrat today. Hell the Republicans used to be LIBERAL and the Democrats were CONSERVATIVE.
And today the KKK vote Republican.
Nice try though. 👍
@outdoor fun Not my fault that your knowledge of history is lacking because of your indoctrination by rightist propaganda.
I can prove my point:
1. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.livescience.com/amp/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html&ved=2ahUKEwjPweKbsrDtAhXFmVkKHUf0AhAQFjACegQIEBAB&usg=AOvVaw37O5uFUQOoAy0NlStaMU3-&cf=1
2. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Keeping-the-Faith/Party-Realignment--New-Deal/&ved=2ahUKEwjPweKbsrDtAhXFmVkKHUf0AhAQFjAFegQIERAB&usg=AOvVaw2x6E5hX2bFu99NLZ0alLNi
3. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=amp.usatoday.com/amp/3253803001&ved=2ahUKEwjPweKbsrDtAhXFmVkKHUf0AhAQFjAQegQIFBAB&usg=AOvVaw2j4mUNR5IzlS2Cjx-ta3zD&cf=1
Can you prove your BS?
@outdoor fun Name some of these "countless historians".
No doubt you believe the Nazis were leftists, sorry to burst your rightist bubble but they were not. Despite their name meaning "National Socialism" the Nazis actually targeted socialists as part of their persecutions.
You need to be smart enough to look past the names and instead look at their actions.
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/05/right-needs-stop-falsely-claiming-that-nazis-were-socialists/%3FoutputType%3Damp&ved=2ahUKEwiVlZrdyLDtAhUL-6wKHa-XAFYQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw3GPTxcyHQFH-sIaXIzTdtf&cf=1
If a Nazi is a socialist then a seahorse is an actual horse that I should be able to saddle up and ride.
I noticed that you haven't been able to actually refute my points.
@outdoor fun Fascism is far-right you dumbass. Please go get yourself educated before you respond to me.
The problem is the majority of people today chalk up the Civil War as just a war about slavery. It was a lot more than that. There were several other major issues that led to the war. Slavery was a big deal, but it was kinda the straw that broke the camel's back. One of the key issues the North and South disagreed on was how the government should run. The Union wanted a more centralized government. I.E. The Federal Government. The Confederacy wanted a Federation, where States govern themselves. The Union used slavery as a tool for propaganda and war. "FIGHT FOR THE NORTH!!! EARN YOUR FREEDOM!!!"
The South wanted states rights so they could decide for themselves to keep slavery. They ironically hastened the destruction of slavery by attacking the North.
"The important thing that everyone here needs to remember is to not erase the past."
How is the past being erased?
Destroying some statues doesn't erase the past, there are plenty of pictures and written accounts of the Civil War. Those don't go away just because some statues to traitors get destroyed.
How did you learn about the Civil War? I doubt it was from a Confederate monument.
"The EASIEST WAY TO DESTROY A COUNTRY, is to erase its past." Once again that isn't what is happening.
Actually the easiest way to destroy a country is with nuclear weapons.
How EXACTLY does destroying these statues cause the destruction of America?
"And that's exactly what people today are trying to do to the U.S."
Nope. Why are you so desperate to keep these traitor's statues up?
"No reasonable person walks by a Civil War monument and goes YAY! SLAVERY!!! WOOHOO!!! ALRIGHT!!!"
Actually these people do exist unfortunately. Look up neo-confederates.
"But the only way you're going to be able to build a better tomorrow is to learn from the past."
The problem with that is that people are worshipping the past!! They aren't "learning from it", they are trying to return to it.
We need to be able to move on and taking those statues down is an important step.
It is a message to show that we as a nation no longer idolize the racist "values" of the Confederacy.
It has been over a hundred years since the Confederacy was defeated and we still haven't completely banished it's influence.
Would you be ok with Germany keeping statues and monuments of the Nazis?
@@0816M3RC No REASONABLE person. Those that do this are hardly what one would describe as "reasonable".
As a historian I feel as if both sides of any conflict deserve respect and tearing down a monument to a soldier or a general is not fixing a problem it just makes matters worse
We shouldn't have monuments to TRAITORS.
I think it is weird that some Americans are willing to condemn Nazis but not Confederates.
@@0816M3RC then what is George Washington if not a traitor to the English
@@chesterzimmerman7752 What a ridiculous comparison.
Do you think that Nazis should have monuments constructed to them in Germany?
@@chesterzimmerman7752 From one history buff to another let me ask you a question.
What is the purpose of a monument?
@@0816M3RC to display a hero and or historical figure to inspire others or to present historical topics to those who wish to view them