# The white hood: heritage, not hate! **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-hood-heritage-not-hate/723050 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [June 21, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-hood-heritage-not-hate/723050 "2015-06-21T02:50:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 419
### Author: ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone) #### Post date: [June 25, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-hood-heritage-not-hate/723050/419 "2015-06-25T01:23:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > No. Although they were traitors, they were still citizens/nationals of the United States of America and thus not subject to deportation. No, but we coulda hanged some. Just a few, to make a point. > [@Montgomery Maryland's Overzealous Anti-Smoking Legislation--](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montgomery-marylands-overzealous-anti-smoking-legislation/94651/13): > > Now that Virginia no longer has that stupid racist song as its state song… You’re offended by “Thar’s whar I labored so long for ol’ Massa, day after day in de fields ob yeller corn?” The one we sang in school included the charming Negro Dialect spellings. > [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Washington’s slaves were eventually freed; he was unable to free the ones Martha had brought from her first marriage, or their descendants. Some of that _ **bloodline** _ were eventually inherited by Mrs Robert E Lee. Well-chosen word. It made me puke a little. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-hood-heritage-not-hate/723050)._