As bad as Morris Dees is, and he’s bad, he didn’t buy and sell other human beings. He didn’t use child captives for labor and his own financial betterment. He didn’t steal the wages of other men or make concubines of their daughters.
The South murdered it’s self over slavery. Even today you will find pockets of people who refuse to acknowledge the pain and suffering it caused, the utter degradation in brought upon both races.
I’m a southerner. My forebearers have been here since 1725. And I’m as old as the hills now. Old enough to have been at the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at Legion Field when Wayne Perkins played barefooted.
I’m just no longer of the opinion that the abject misery and human cost of slavery needs to be whitewashed.
To me, that’s just like people who deny that Hitler murdered 6 million News.
“To me, that’s just like people who deny that Hitler murdered 6 million Jews.”
Yeah, well then you would likely agree with what Marx and Engels wrote about the American South during the Civil War. They hadn’t heard of Hitler of course, but they were as moralistic and eager to condemn as you are.
The British offered emancipation twice during the Revolution, the Dunsmore and the Philipsburg proclamation. So looking back do you side with the Crown over the Hitler-like American patriot slaveowners?