Agreed, either pity or a scolding of "Is this what you call freedom from slavery??"
"I would venture to say that Mr. Bundy has gone to bed bone tired, with every muscle aching, more nights than not, but with a heart full of gratitude for the freedom to enjoy the fruits of working so hard that it hurts. He was not expressing racism, IMHO, but pain at the inability of so many of his fellow men to have the opportunity to do likewise. So the man's not a great orator...I'll take the in-artful statement of a man who knows how to work over the soaring rhetoric of an elitist snake any day. "
I know Frederick Douglass scolded slaves on more than a few occasions for being too comfortable in slavery to simply walk away en mass. If they had just gotten up and walked away as a group, there wouldn’t have been a damn thing anyone could have done to stop them.
Slaves weren’t held by fences and guard towers. They were held by ignorance and fear which their democrat masters imposed on them.