1:52:02 I'm sorry, Virginia governor proclaimed April as Confederate History Month. And so in this proclamation, he forgot to mention slavery. And so everyone got up in arms and the president said, oh, this is horrible. And of course, he says he rescinded. He said, I'm sorry. That was clearly an oversight. But now I'm watching like CNN. And what I'm hearing is, well the Civil War was about slavery. I'm like, no it wasn't. I mean it was a part of it. But the Civil War was not about slavery. And I'm actually seeing debates of people out loud saying, you need to read your history book. The Civil War was about slavery. John, please help me because I believe you were in the Confederate Army at the time.
1:52:53 What exactly was the Civil War about? Was it not about the... Infection in the Union Army. Yeah, was it not about the succession of the states and states' rights initially? Yeah, it was basically about states' rights and the fact that a lot of the states were... I mean, there was underlying the origins of the Civil War was an issue of slavery because The southern states were starting to feel that the federal government, which was really just set up as just a little bureaucracy to keep commerce at an even keel and to resolve issues between the states. They started to feel at some point, and by the way, this is all debatable, but there's a lot of, you can read, Kenneth Stamps got a really good book about the origins of the Civil War where he's found a bunch of essays.
1:53:36 that of the time that Altina described. And when you read the stuff from at the moment, it seemed to be that you just didn't want to get pushed around by the central government. They were totally against and they thought that the central government was taking too many liberties and they decided to split off and form their own government, the Confederate States of America. And they started it, of course, by attacking Fort Sumter And it just kind of deteriorated. And then once Lincoln freed the slaves, then it became only about slavery. And that's when it got all these... By the way, there's another issue here, which is that this was instigated, at least it was believed until World War I, that much of this war
1:54:28 between the states was instigated by Britain and France who wanted to grab most of our country. Yeah, they wanted to break it up. Especially to get the gold out of California, which we discovered earlier. Right, divide and conquer. And so the whole thing has very screwy beginnings. I mean, if it wasn't for England and France, it's quite possible that we would never have had a civil war. So this douchebag, Don Lemon on CNN, have you ever seen this guy? He's on a lot. Don C. Lemon, I think he is. And it's important for me to mention that he's black. And he has these two Civil War reenactment people on, who of course are in their get-ups. And he literally says, you know, people who reenact the Civil War, it's offensive to me as a black man. I'm like, what?
1:55:24 Because that represents, you know, when you reenact the Civil War, that's all about slavery and you're celebrating slavery. I'm like, what? And then he gets this other black guy on who is also a Civil War reenactor and this guy and he was on via satellite and this is why I got to find this clip. I'll find it if I can. If anyone has it, send it to me. You know, we got to play it on Thursday. So this other guy, this black Civil War reenactor, he starts saying this was not about slavery. Yes, it was a part of it. And then Don Lemon does, oh, I'm sorry, I got to cut you off. We got to go to commercial. Before the guy can even get in and start his explanation it happened three times But he actually was saying oh, so you think slavery is good slavery is a good thing like no I don't think that well when you when you celebrate You know what is it when you celebrate Confederate History Month you're celebrating slavery
1:56:20 It's like no, and does this do you think have anything to do with the with the fact that there are 12 or 13 states who are now suing over the health care bill and are talking about states rights and and are they trying to steer this conversation away from what the Civil War actually was about and trying to I guess marginalize that out of the conversation and and I'd like to know for our younger listeners out there. What is in your history book in school? Because there's a lot of talk on this show about here's what the history books tell us. And then the other... The books have been rewritten time after time. If you want to read about the Civil War, the causations and the rest of it, Kenneth Stamps has got a good selection of essays. I don't have it here and I can't remember the title but I'll get it for next week.
1:57:08 which is very interesting to read because there's some really wild theories that came out in the 1870s and 1880s. But if you read any history book, try to go to one of these library swap meets where they sell all their books off and find some old book from an American history book from the late 1800s and sit down and read it. You're gonna read like, it's like reading stuff you've never heard of because the history has been massaged and rewritten and massaged and rewritten. It's like the Japanese do with World War II. They have rewritten the history of the World War II to the point where the young people in Japan think that, you know, that all it was about was about bombing them with an atom bomb. There's no other, really nothing else to it. It was just a bunch of pricks from the United States bombing us with an atom bomb. And, you know, you go back closer to the source
1:58:01 you know, closer to 1860 and you start to see, you know, a different picture painted and it has been reinterpreted and reinterpreted and reinterpreted and then politically correct, political correctness crept in and agendas crept in and the next thing you know what you're reading, which is one of the reasons homeschooling is better than public schooling, what you're reading is garbage. It's just a mishmash of, I mean, it's good to read but you're not reading anything real, it's just terrible. The president says, quote, I don't think you can understand the Confederacy and the Civil War unless you understand slavery. That just sounds slanted. I think people are inciting racial hatred in America. Oh yeah. I think so too. They really are. They're going out of their way. And I think there is, in a way, still a North and South fight going on for industry or, you know, maybe the Confederacy and the Union divide never ended.