Nikki Haley declines to say US civil war was about slavery 

"We can" isn't "we need"

Whether she's right or wrong, which I really dislike her, the point is that the more control you give the government, the less freedom you actually have. The government isn't your friend, and they don't care about you, they only want money and power.

We should do the same for voting...

@@AusDenBergen Maybe education should just be improved across the board? Just a thought.

@@urielOrnstein but our poor education in every aspect of life is deliberate. How can we stand up for ourselves or stand together if everything we believe is a lie?

Voters with a functioning brain aren't really wanted in the US.

States rights.

@@cinnamon962 States rights for what though?

@@josecortez1986look it up “the American system”

@@djsponge10look up the articles of secession, the confederate states admit the cause was slavery. Plus the union actually had more states rights than the confederacy did

This happens every 4 years, literally election season

@@azulaquaza4916 And Trump was elected back in 2016 by Russian Hackers.

To be fair, DeFacist doesn't even want children in Florida to learn about slavery because it'll hurt their feelings and will make white kids feel bad about being white 🥴 He probably wouldn't have mentioned slavery if someone asked him this question either 🫠

How did you type in italics?

They literally didn't even outlaw slavery till the second year of the war It's not about freedom of speech it was about personal liberties it's in the history books all you have to do is be able to read

Freedom of speech can be horrifying to those who are afraid of the truth.

@sylent6818 I'm afraid of how powerful the lie of the lost cause is. I thought this got debunked decades ago but seems quite a few people believe even now

Yes, several of the states, when seceding, cited concerns about freedom of speech. They were against it. Abolitionists had been using it to say things about slavery.

It was primarily about State Rights which the Federal Government (referred to as the Union) fought against long before Slavery was an issue. Slavery was used as a catalyst that finally brought about the Civil war

The deep breath that followed is a dead giveaway too. She was flabbergasted by such an easy question 😂.

Oh now you're an expert at reading body language because you saw a RU-vid video once.

@@AusDenBergen Not an expert, but even a blind person can see that. Are you a "not see"?

@AusDenBergen you're not the sharpest tool in the shed if you can't pick up that 90% of communication is body language. It's clear as day how uncomfortable that question made her 😂.

She knew the answer. She didn’t wanna mention slavery

He set her up and she fell so bad lol

@@213kilacaliIt's like she fell on a sword he perfectly set up for her. He had to of expected that kind of answer from her 😂

no they didnt ... it was about the right to govern themselves..it was only after LINCOLN made it a war about slavery that they said that ..get your facts right

That's an interesting way of looking at it, but when I studied this topic in school, we learned that the civil war was caused by the fact that the southern states wanted to secede. Had the south tried to defend their right to own slaves without seeking secession, there probably wouldn't have been a civil war.

@@allanchurm Right to govern themselves, as the right to hold slaves anyway they chose... on the very first page of SC 1860 Secession Declaration, they listed the refusal of Northern States to return slaves to the south as the reason for Secession. *South Carolina Declaration of Secession, 1860* In the present case, that fact is established with certainty. We assert that fourteen of the States have deliberately refused, for years past, to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own Statutes for the proof. The Constitution of the United States, in its fourth Article, provides as follows: “No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” This stipulation was so material to the compact, that without it that compact would not have been made. The greater number of the contracting parties held slaves, and they had previously evinced their estimate of the value of such a stipulation by making it a condition in the Ordinance for the government of the territory ceded by Virginia, which now composes the States north of the Ohio River. The same article of the Constitution stipulates also for rendition by the several States of fugitives from justice from the other States. The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. *But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.*

Read all the secession documents, which were drafted well before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Read the "Cornerstone Speech" by Vice President Elect of the Confederacy. There is plenty of evidence, in the words of people who were there, that the war was about slavery. ​@@allanchurm

​@@allanchurmeven the northern states were governing themselves, why did the 11 states specifically want to secede? It's because slavery.

Is this trying to suggest that people who vote Republican are "RaCiSt"? Wow, you're intelligent, aren't you.

@@Cwgrlupthe answer is slavery (read the cession documents of the confederate states), the question is why she didn’t say that

@@somethingelse516 Maybe because A: she doesn't want to be bullied , and B: because she's not a qualified historian. It was of course not her party which wanted to retain slavery, it was Joe Biden's, the Democratic Party. In a sense that party still operates slavery, in voting terms at least, through the use of mail-in ballots in the minority ghettos manipulated by Democrat Party "community organisers" like Obama.

​@@somethingelse516 Confederate wasn't anything to do w Northern states. You purposely squared it by deleting the beginning of conflicts timeline. The Slavery was the factor but not the cause which was the economic distress of a divided Union. He led a deeply divided country into civil war.

​@@ssuwandi3240 "...A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery..." From the State of South Carolina official decision and notification for leaving the United States of America

Why are you crying because someone didn't mention slavery? There's something disturbingly weird about that.

@@LordHighness Was there a different reason besides slavery?

@@LordHighness The man ASKED about slavery. So it is disturbingly weird that she was so caught off guard by the question since South Carolina was a strong pro slavery state before during and AFTER the Civil War. She should have been ready for that..

No matter how hard you tried to bully her ..... Let her be.

@@billhathaway2814i think she has no clue .

the answer would be..."to own slaves" Alex, for 1000

To own slaves

Freedom for the companies to enslave the population .Nikki is a shill for the elite and she doesn't know the history says it all.

That's because the true history of the civil war is not a simple as simpletons think it is. I can't stand Nikki Haley but I also can't stand peoples' childlike understanding of history.

What's the obvious answer? Without showing how misinformed you are..

​​@@Jase29The Civil War was about slavery. Can you give us your answer now.

No because that's Nikki pretending to be someone else on here in these comments. lol @@henyosdilly8999

@henyosdilly8999 It was about economics and political control.

Oh no, they do. They just don't want to say slavery

She knows history she’s just appalling.

Which party was formed by the Confederate side? Republican or Democrat? History is quite interesting when you are taught full facts.

​@Jase29 boy you are NOT ready to hear about the party switch

This Republican always did well in History and unlike most leftists has a very long Memory.

And she's different from any other person standing in front of a camera how? If they're in the spotlight they're liars.

@@AusDenBergen she is not of course. I was commenting that she is one of the best I’ve seen, her and Gretchen and Myorkas (can’t spell that). I used to watch him being questioned in the Senate in amazement at his bare faces lies. This is coming from a person reared by psychopath personality types.

I'm sure there were meny reasons it would have been so black and white. Sure Yankees were more progressive than there southern counterparts but doubt young men would stand in lines getting shot at because the Yankees wanted to take their slaves away. Why is Russia invading Ukraine ? What started WWI Why did Japan attack Korea I'm sure the guardian reporters have all the right answers

Right, because most people tend to e cynical in History of the Humankind and Civilizations to our modern time and age. Society has become stagnant and blindfolded over simple facts, things that everyone should be aware right? History of a country, of the continents and It's conflicts. She did not answer the question she was asked.

@@novahina Its a hard question for a politician worried about losing votes of racists.

Yes. But listen to the actual question. THE cause of the war. Technically (in other words, in reality) the war started because the north attacked the south after the South seceded. The north DID NOT HAVE TO ATTACK. They chose to. Therefore, it was the aggression by the north that started the war.

@@genestone4951 No the Southerners fired upon Ft Sumter in Charleston harbor first which gave Lincoln the high ground. .

She has nothing to do with slavery, she's a recent immigrant to the USA, of Indian (India in Asia) origin. Why would her opinion matter?

Because she is running for President of this country@@charleswhite758

@@charleswhite758 It is NOT an oppinion but a FACT of American history!

Especially if she’s running for president. Duh.

And the Republicans supported abolition.

Not really, the Guardian supports communists.

correct

It was this about keeping the whole union together not slavery the war was started. Slavery wasn't mentioned till 62 by Lincoln.

The North had none of southern Slavery issue but unions . Too bad the Radical medias always touted the Slavery as damsel in distress narrative 😅😅 ..

It wasn't so much slavery that they were against. They were against ending up having to live along side a population of black people once slavery inevitably came to an end. See my comment above for a longer answer if interested, including the country where they sent their black people who were living in the north prior to the war

@@annoloki Lincoln had a program of "repatriating Africans back to Africa. The African town of Monrovia is one of the aftermaths. The British tried repatriating their freedom slaves to Africa as well. Neither plan went well. The slavery process did all it could to remove the African slaves memory of Africa.

She should know that the people of her state left the union over the fear of the election of the first President of her party Abraham Lincoln of the National Republicans because they feared his hostility to slavery. .

The Southerners dreamed up a bunch of extra excuse both before and after losing the civil war.

I've got the same doubt😮😮😮

*know? or *it?

@@alvallac2171 Afraid of alienating racists who want to talk "States Rights" as the reason for the war.

She is afraid of upsetting the party base.

Your Confused! That is Joe Biden Starting Wars! Watch and see!

And the Confederate states' articles of Secession were written by the Confederate States, and clearly declare the main reason is slavery.

Nah it was written on paper in English bro it was barely 200 years ago

Exactly

Thank you for noticing that

That became Liberia instead, I presume?