Replies to post #2312 on RANT & CHAT - No Politics (RANT-NP)

[ergo sum]

Without emancipation, the war was nothing but meaningless carnage. It required a war to make the Constitution that of a real, united nation. And it's still being fought. The Civil War is not over as long as some are living in houses and others on the street.
In his somewhat loose interpretation of Parkman, Burns said he wanted the Civil War on film to "resonate." I assume that by "resonate" he means it should have current social and moral relevance. But there is no reason to speculate on something about which Burns himself was quite vocal in interviews. Talking to Charlie McDowell (the voice of Sam Watkins, the Confederate soldier featured in the film), Burns said that Fields' comments quoted above were his favorite part of the film. The issues she raised were the ones which had
animated the pursuit of the film. Barbara Fields covered the initial reason we fought--to extend to all men the promise that all men are created equal. The history of our country is one of tension between growth and civil rights. The Civil War murdered hundreds of thousands of people to extend [equality] to black men, and now we've extended it to women, and to black women, and immigrants, and now we're struggling with the handicapped and the homosexuals and how we try to expand and invigorate the American democracy.
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/melton.html

[alexed]

Also, understand that this was an Economic issue as well. Having built it's economy based on Slave labor, the South would have taken decades to recover from the economic effects of the end of slavery with or with out a war. If you want to really get down to the nitty gritty of what the war was about...it was about one group of people wanting to dictate to another group of people HOW they should go about living.
Throughout history, this attitude as typically been a precursor to war. When one group tells another that "you are doing it WRONG, You must change!" a fight is bound to break out.


To me building your economy on someone elses free labor is BS! It reminds me of people today who are on welfare.They are healthy enough to earn their own living,but are lazy.To me thats what slave labor reminds me of,lazy people (the slave owners).Yep the south was afraid to change and so are many other people.People will stagnate, shivel up and cease to progress without change. Its to bad it wasn't their choice to remain in the land of the lost.


On the minimum wage debate; I really do not see a need for the increase.If you are a hard working person,then the chances of making more then minimum wage is good even if a education is lacking. A work ethic is the key.