The president’s speech at a South Carolina church did not go over well with the GOP candidate.
Joe Biden gave a speech in South Carolina on Monday, and Nikki Haley isn’t happy about it. Specifically, she’s not happy about the part where the president called her out for her extremely cringeworthy comments about the Civil War, saying, “Let me be clear, for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.”
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The issue of the Civil War—and her commentary on it—has come up for Haley in the past. While running for governor of South Carolina in 2010, she described the war as a matter of two sides fighting over “tradition” and “change,” adding that the Confederate flag was “not something that is racist.” She also claimed there was no reason to take the flag down from the statehouse grounds (until five years later, after the mass shooting at the Charleston church). After Haley’s gaffe in December, Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that her failure to mention slavery was “not stunning if you were a Black resident in SC when she was Governor.”
Can I ask where you found this? I want to learn where I can look this up in the future when some doofus claims a different reason for the civil war
They’re readily available, if you Google any state followed by letter of secession they will pop right up.
Here’s Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina’, Virginia, and Texas:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states#georgia
There isn’t a letter for every state, some didn’t write a letter and just passed a law saying the union is dissolved or something like that.
Here also is the confederate constitution: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp
I will direct your attention to this line -
(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
For anyone parroting states rights nonsense. Literally banned the ability of a state to choose on whether or not to allow slavery
Sweet, thanks for that!
Not the same person but I googled “causes for secession” and clicked the first link.
First link.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure how to look them up. I’m largely unfamiliar with the topic and didn’t know what a “causes” meant in legalese so it flew over my head. 😅
Yeahnobutreallyitzaboutstatesrightsandmuhfreedomandtraditionz!