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I am not intentionally distorting your words. If I misunderstood them, I apologize.

Here’s what I was responding to, “Like how the South in the late 19th century “abandoned” their teachings about black slavehood & inferiority.”

I took you to mean by this that the South officially abandoned these teaching in the late 19th century, but it still took most of a century for them to give them up in their hearts.

My point is that southern “Christians” (or most of them) did NOT abandon their teachings about black inferiority in “late 19th century.” They did so in the 60s and 70s, for the most part, or roughly about the same time Mormons did.

I said: “Like how the South in the late 19th century “abandoned” their teachings about black slavehood & inferiority.”

You: I took you to mean by this that the South officially abandoned these teaching in the late 19th century

Well, #1, I first said "teachings about black slavehood..." ...and yes, 'twas IMPOSED upon the South to yield this in the 1860s!

So, yes, they were FORCED to abandon it THEN!

As for "inferiority," no...which is why I went on to explain that it took over a century more for that to wind its way out.