Anyways...the CSA is jes history now.
Instead of getting worked up about it,
People should git over it and see it as some historical context
I was thinkin this thread should be about the Good & the Bad aspects about it.
Teh Confederacy gets so much flack about its slave holding past, and yet these civilizations we call 'Great' had significantly more of it goin' on and likely a lot more depraved than the Confederacy.
ie - Ancient Egypt, Rome and Ancient Greece just some examples.
For better wor worse, this thread should be about what it was like to live back then.
That is probably true about ancient civilizations, but the fallout from savery, including Jim Crow and other kinds of systemic racism, seriously affected people who are still alive now and have directly shaped the society we live in now.
See...I didn't grow up in the States so I didn't see that so much when I was there.
I was there more as a tourist/temporary worker so I wasn't really affected by the negative influences that much.
People were mostly friendly to me. So maybe that's why I just see Confederate symbols as historical artifacts for amusement. Same as an antique or comic book. I just see Confederate Uniforms as costumes not instruments of violence.
They have no symbolic basis of oppression nor ideological affiliation for me because it doesn't have the same connotation.
But I did notice some tension between Blacks and Whites. There seemed to be this invisible Color Bar for all races.
A lot more violence, knives and guns for sure.
And I met so many men who'd been to prison.
It was so common to meet ex-cons that you basically accepted it as a part of daily existence living there.
USA is def a much higher pressure society than Canada. Seems more stressful.
Didn't think the quality of the food was as good there. I got ulcers while living in the States.
But maybe that was more due to stress than illness.
I visited Mexico once, so maybe I got sick there.
Not sure.