Funny, I saw all over the news about the spray painting of "black lives matter" when that happened along with stories about the brave woman who climbed the flag pole. I'm sorry you missed those stories.
And Lincoln was so fervent in his opposition to slavery that he only waited two years before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. His preference was to export blacks to Africa to start their own country.
I saw the one about the criminal woman. I haven't seen anything about the more general desecration except from right wing news sources (that friends shared on FB, I don't subscribe to them).
Yes and as I said here or in the Sumter thread you'll get no argument from me that this is a racist county, originating that way and still that way.
Slavery is not racism. Slavery is simply cheap labor. Some Chinese workers are close of being slaves but it's not because anyone has something against Chinese people, it's all about cheap labor.
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From what I read in history there are many examples of people who once had slaves and no sign of racism. Ben Franklin had slaves but he noted on how the Constitution was written he thought slaves should be freed. He didn't force the issue but he did freed his slaves.
I never said that slavery automatically means racism, but is true in the case of American slavery of Africans. It is true by the words they spoke about black people. They specifically stated that the black race is inferior....which is the meaning of racism then, and today.
No doubt there were some that was racism as even many evolutionist at that time believe Africans were inferior even ones who didn't have slaves.
Both North and South had slaves and you thing every one of them was racist? Slavery has always been about cheap labor.
Someone else keeps you up like all our "freebies" programs.
Obviously you did not read what I wrote. Oh well. The racism applied to all who believed blacks were inferior, and those who held slaves were bound the racist institution of slavery. Perhaps America as a whole were all racists?
An answer I expected. Nothing to do with slavery, but it gets tossed out anyways....
I agree. I lived in the South for many years, including the Charleston area. I found much worse racism when I lived in Ohio in the Dayton area. I heard the "n" word there much more often than I heard it when I lived in the South, not to mention the person brought in to the Dayton schools to integrate the school system was murdered. One of my dad's coworker and his wife took in kids of all races (they were from Mississippi), and his wife was spit on for carrying a black baby (they were taking care of the baby while the father came to terms with his mother having overdosed on pills while suffering from post-partum depression until he felt he could take care of the baby). I never saw things like this happen when I lived in South Carolina. Both of my parents were Southerners and were very supportive of the Civil Rights movement (my father was born and raised in South Carolina).
Really? So you think is ok for someone to get the benefit of slavery but doesn't have to do anything for it? The part of slavery that goes against our nature is being told what to do.
