The only purpose I have is the belief that our country would have been better off if we had gotten rid of, or never had, chattel slavery. You seem to not have a problem with slavery. Do you or do you not believe slavery is a great moral wrong?
“You seem to not have a problem with slavery.”
That is an interesting comment.
May we see your data on that?
I do not see how that could have happened. Slavery was on the wane until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which suddenly made large labor farms very profitable. Much of the nation's wealth was built on the economics this produced.
The only way to have avoided this eventuality was to never let it get rooted in the first place, so the crucial nexus at which it could have been prevented was at least a hundred years further in the past from 1787.
Slavery is a Muslim transplant into a Christian country, and it never really fit our culture, though people would make excuses for it because it benefited them.
Then I ask you to join me in placing the blame for enshrining slavery into the United State Constitution squarely where it belongs: on the original slave states.
Specifically - New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
North and South Carolina and Georgia were also slave states. Don't ever forget to cast three-thirteenths responsibility in that direction.
“You seem to not have a problem with slavery. Do you or do you not believe slavery is a great moral wrong?”
Your statement that I do not seem to have a problem with slavery is nothing less than an attempt to impeach me with a false accusation of racism.
I am sensitive to this because I have seen other impeachment attempts this week using the same false accusation of, “he is a racist.”