Jere Krischel
Aug 24, 2017 · 2 min read

In contrast to every other western nation that eliminated slavery, the United States fought a protracted Civil War with over 600,000 lives lost before the evil institution was ended.

Today, slavery still exists in Africa, and several islamic countries, an evil institution that we as a planet should all be ashamed of.

Whatever you may think of those that fought on the Confederate side on the Civil War, their blood, and the blood of the Union soldiers as well, was a price paid for black freedom in the United States — a price that no other western nation ever paid. If that blood sacrifice isn’t enough for you, and you need to have more dead white people before you can offer a modicum of human understanding and forgiveness, then shame on you.

Now, we can spend the rest of our lives fighting over a war that happened over a hundred and fifty years ago, or we can come together, as fellow Americans, and own the history of *both* sides that fought and died in that tragic Civil War. Spitting on the graves of long dead soldiers represents a hateful consumption that harms nobody except those filled with hate.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. — Abraham Lincoln

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    Jere Krischel

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    Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, born again carnivore, musician, firearms instructor and skeptical civil rights activist.