Thank you for taking time to engage in me conversation, as it is greatly appreciated. What impresses me the most is that thought we may agree and/or disagree on various issues that we do so in an honorable fashion; as Gentlemen.

As I write this I cannot help but smile as in my ancestral culture as well as your own being Man of Honor (Hombre de Honor) and a Gentleman (Caballero) has always been and should always be a desired trait we instill in our sons.

I look forward to your future posts.

Sincerely,
Xavier Suarez

Secondly, the position you propose is one that essentially says that the North was, compared to The South, a Utopian paradise for African slaves. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I doubt that you will find many Southerners who would say that slavery had nothing to do with the war. Our point is that The South would have left the union with or without slavery. Our point is that Blacks were NOT thought of more highly or treated better in the North than in The South. Our point is that our Southern ancestors were not “the bad guys” while Northerners were “the good guys”. While it is easier to “go along to get along”, it is not the right thing to do. We cannot and will not abandon the honor and memory of those who came before us in order to win the false approval of our contemporaries.

Thirdly, we understand that even if the assumption that North=Good and South=Bad were true and we were to prostrate ourselves and beg for forgiveness, it would only be used against us. We must never follow the example of B. Hussein Obama as he goes around the world apologizing for America being such an evil and wicked nation while praising Islam as “the religion of peace”.

I have written a post and will go ahead and publish it in the next day or so that gives my own family’s perspective on the slavery issue. My ancestors owned slaves, and I have some information on how they were thought of and were treated.

Please understand that I appreciate your approach. I understand your intention, and it is an honorable one. My intention here is to explain why it is not right, and thus, why we can never take that position. I hope that you take what I have written here as it was intended. There are few who honestly ask questions as you have, and I sincerely appreciate it. Thank you, sir.

I believe that by denying racists elements of your past and denying that the main cause of southern states secession from the union was slavery hurts rather than helps your cause.

I consider myself a student of history and when I moved to the south I heard many a counter argument to the slavery issue so I took it upon myself to study the various historical state documents of the time mainly the documents pertaining to secession of which overwhelmingly point to slavery as the leading issue, I’m sure many of you have access to the very same documents.

For me the most glaring document was the constitution of the confederacy itself:

ARTICLE I, Section 9, (4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves shall be passed.

ARTICLE IV, Section 2, (1) The citizens of each state . . . shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any state of this Confederacy with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.

ARTICLE IV, Section 2, (3) [A] slave or other person held to service or labor in any state or territory of the Confederate States under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall . . . be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs.

ARTICLE IV, Section 3, (3) The Confederate States may acquire new territory. . . . In all such territory, the institution of Negro slavery as it now exists in the Confederate States shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States

Also I find it curious that many folks speak of states’ rights but the confederate constitution did not honor states rights by allowing states to decide on their own if in some distant future they wish to end slavery.

Please understand that I’m not starting an argument but rather ask how can acknowledging the wrongs of the past hurt your cause of honoring your wonderful culture of which I am a fan? I say it doesn’t.

Respectfully and Godspeed,
Xavier Suarez
Alpharetta, GA

The federal government has successfully created a slave class that never questions its authority, never dissent unless it’s approved by the government; they allow the government to rob the people of over half their income in order to funnel it back to themselves, they have trained the people to believe that its perfectly alright to have the lawyers and politicians who do nothing more than act as parasites on those who create wealth.

The federal propaganda has demonized those who wish to be free of a centralized tyrant and continue to demonize the South and all of her heritage because the South still remains the last regional hold out against centralized power. That is why the South must always be belittled, ran down, and considered “backwards” least the people there decide that its time to ditch Washington D.C. no matter the cost.