For the South there was a lot of protecting State's rights and the fact that Washington was tied to advancing the industrial North versus the far more agricultural South ...
Free versus Slave was an issue but only to effect that it was the North dictating to the South how they should handle their business ...
I'm far from advocating slavery (in fact to the contrary) but with the way farms, etc were in those times (heavy manual labor), that's what it was.
Slavery goes back way back into history and was generally what happened to a people when conquered by others in war ...
It's easy to go back and retro QB ... but times were far different than ... we've advanced significantly in the 150 years since then ... just like we will 150 years from now
Ah yes, I remember a young, scrappy United States conquering Africa.
Missing my point big time
What I was getting at was that slavery was part of society for Centuries ... so holding the South up (particularly today) for what happened there 150 years ago I just don't get the point. It's part of the past ... thankfully not part of the present and hopefully not part of the future.
I'm sure there are idiots down there that subscribe to the "South Will Rise Again" and would love for slavery. Fuck those people. But making people today in the South feel guilty about what their great great great grandfather did 150+ years ago ... that's stupid too. And there is plenty of pride in those people that they aren't going to disrespect that relative even if they disagree with them.
Anybody that has taken anything I've said as supporting slavery is insanely idiotic ... nothing could be further from the truth.
But at the same time, there's this need and desire in this country to look backwards instead of looking forward. Solving problems requires understanding the past (and the hard truths about it) to find solutions for the future. The past isn't going to change. Striking the past from memory isn't going to change the future.
What in the fuck has happened to this thread? This is a fucking recruiting board, we aren't trying to solve societies issues. Everyone sucks.
People forget that slave owners didn't have to fight. The poor whites fought for the South. The south fought to protect the white patriarchal male privilege that was given a thin veneer of respectability by calling it a code of honor
Hey everyone. Don't be so quick to jump on @Tequilla. Remember he's just "playing a role" for his podcast audience. He's not this stupid and ignorant in real life.
I wish my people would have been smart enough to have just enslaved all the whites who ambled off the fucking Mayflower.
Whites and Blacks came here early as indentured servants. Whites were allowed to pay it off and be free. Blacks were asked to form a line to the left...........
I wish my people would have been smart enough to have just enslaved all the whites who ambled off the fucking Mayflower.
Whites and Blacks came here early as indentured servants. Whites were allowed to pay it off and be free. Blacks were asked to form a line to the left...........
Didn't they try to enslave native Indianas? Or at lest try?
I wish my people would have been smart enough to have just enslaved all the whites who ambled off the fucking Mayflower.
Whites and Blacks came here early as indentured servants. Whites were allowed to pay it off and be free. Blacks were asked to form a line to the left...........
Didn't they try to enslave native Indianas? Or at lest try?
I wish my people would have been smart enough to have just enslaved all the whites who ambled off the fucking Mayflower.
Whites and Blacks came here early as indentured servants. Whites were allowed to pay it off and be free. Blacks were asked to form a line to the left...........
Didn't they try to enslave native Indianas? Or at lest try?
Hey everyone. Don't be so quick to jump on @Tequilla. Remember he's just "playing a role" for his podcast audience. He's not this stupid and ignorant in real life.
I suggest you go watch the end of LT's HOF speech ... he echoes my feelings
Slavery happened ... it happened a long time ago ... it was terrible ... but we need to move on to the present and future
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Slavery happened ... it happened a long time ago ... it was terrible ... but we need to move on to the present and future