'For The Forgotten African-American Dead'

NOTE: Todays post is different. I plan on submitting the response you’ll find at the end of the article “For the Forgotten African-American Dead”; as it is going in the New York Times. I would ask everyone to critique my response to the article“. Did I misinterpret what they said? Did I state an erroneous fact, misspell something? May-be you could divide your post into a critique of my response then your own comment? Thank you.

There are those who make every issue racial. They use their position as a soapbox and like “Fake News” spout off until someone believes them or in an effort to silence them agree. In this case they offer articles on slavery in the United States never once addressing the many countries that practiced slavery
It is clear the author is every bit as biased as the audience he is writing and complaining about. If he were the unselfish, unbiased person he possess to be he would understand even if he does not agree with someone else views. He should at least respect them to the limit(s) he claims he is entitled to be respected. Soldiers admire their foes Yamamoto; Rommel the Taliban. As General Lee said of Grant “Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university”. The Union Army veterans helped secure Confederate
When the Virginia history book posted the report by Doctor Steiner that he personally saw a regiment of black Confederate soldiers it was instantly a lie. Keep in mind this was a Union official whose reports the government used to combat the foe. So either he was a liar or telling the truth. Since he kept his job and appeared to be rather good at it, let’s assume he was telling the truth. It was likely a slave regiment. Documentation shows these units were armed and on countless occasions went into battle. Probably not more than 15,000 total while the Union Army United States Colored Troops (USCT) numbered almost 200,000. What keeps an armed man or men in an army when there were no guards and that was not where he wanted to be? Unless that was where he wanted to be? For some reason it upsets the people of today that anyone could hold a different view than what they