To get "justice" for a career criminal, there is a demand to remove the history of Southern gentlemen and ladies who fought for the Confederacy. These people who are seeking justice say white people should apologize for white privilege, for white freedom.

In the Revolutionary war, about 1,000 blacks fought for our new nation. In contrast, more than 20,000 blacks took up arms to fight with the British against the Colonists. Many of these blacks were freed blacks, in other words not escaped slaves. Let that sink in.....at the birth of our nation, blacks fought with our enemy against Americans!

War after war, the blood spilled to preserve our freedom has been the blood of white men. Most of these men and women come from the South. It is not the poor who is uneducated or unemployable. Only 11 percent of enlisted recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth (quintile) of neighborhoods, while 25 percent came from the wealthiest quintile. These trends are even more pronounced in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, in which 40 percent of enrollees come from the wealthiest neighborhoods-a number that has increased substantially over the past four years. American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted personnel lack a high school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18-24 years old, and 95 percent of officer accessions have at least a bachelor's degree. Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in military service. Enlisted troops are more likely to be white. Further, new recruits are also disproportionately likely to come from the South, which is in line with the history of Southern military tradition.

As blacks demand their Constitutional rights, those "rights" were bought with white man's blood because your ancestors fought against the birth of America. As you destroy monuments to Southern generals and heroes, keep in mind....it is those blood lines that go without fail to war after war to fight for freedoms around the world. If we were invaded today, it will be the Southern white who will fight for all Americans while the vast majority of Yankees will hunker down with their black buddies until the war is over or they will fight for our enemies. History repeats.

If we ever go to war again, it will not be a Red Dawn scenario, so that will be a hard question to answer. As for the freed blacks who joined up with the British, I could hardly blame them for taking up arms against their former oppressors. In like fashion, can you blame German Jewish refugees coming to the USA during the 1930s from joining our armed forces to get revenge on the country of their birth. I had one such person as a neighbor. He left Germany as a teen in the mid 1930s. When war broke out, he joined the US army air corps and volunteered to be a ball turret gunner on a bomber; one of the most dangerous places to be during ww2. When asked why, he talked how he was tormented in school by classmates and teachers alike for his Jewishness. He saw this as a possible opportunity to unload his 50 cal Browning machine gun on a school full of "Aryan" German children, maybe even some of his former classmates

The Constitution says; The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The Constitution gives limited powers to the national government, and reserves the remaining power of government to the independent, sovereign states of the Union!

Perhaps you were speaking of the Declaration of Independence or should’ve been speaking of it? A more defined stumbling-block to tyranny and oppression.” It continues to inspire people around the world to fight for freedom and equality, BTW~~

The Declaration of Independence included these three major ideas: People have certain Inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. All Men are created equal. Individuals have a civic duty to defend these rights for themselves and others... You may wish to read it~~