“Again you dodge the question. Sometimes a cigars is just a cigar and sometimes a racist is just a racist. I think it is very telling that you refuse to answer it.”
It is telling that you continue to attempt to play the race and slavery cards against your idea opponents. It usually comes right after you have been embarrassed by one of your frequent gaffes.
For example, in your post 1376 you offer a seemingly exculpatory explanation for why slavery was enshrined into the United States Constitution.
You said: “ . . . from what I’ve read of the constitutional convention we would have lost Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina if the hardline anti-slavery founders had pushed the issue. And the founders were more concerned about a fractured America fighting amongst itself or being influenced or taken over by foreign powers. So they kicked the can down the road.”
It is probably true the original 13 slave states were more concerned about their own economic and political best self interest than ending slavery. But for you to embrace their rationale for keeping slavery and then use it as a basis to attack others for being “racist” . . . that doesn’t make sense to me.
Well that’s because you seem to have comprehension difficulties. It was more important to insure a strong, United, consolidated, country at that time then it was to get rid of slavery. Sometimes you have to choose between the lesser of two evils. The founding fathers feared the evils that would befall America if it failed. These evils consisted of the country breaking into smaller countries that would war among themselves unceasingly as was the history of the European countries. The other evil was that foreign countries would conquer or influence these shards of America.
Most of the founding fathers realized that slavery was incompatible with the founding ideology of this country”...that all men are created equal...”. In fact they were so embarrassed by slavery that they wouldn’t even use the word in the constitution. Unlike the southern rebels you seem to worship that used the word and truly enshrined it in their constitution.
The founding fathers also believed they had set it upon the road to eventual extinction. In fact Ben Franklin, and several other founding fathers, joined abolitionist society’s after the constitution was ratified.
I find it perplexing that you cannot grasp these concepts. Your posts seem to be written by a person of reasonable intelligence. I must assume you do not want to acknowledge these facts, as you refuse to answer my question. Perhaps you have more important things to do, like attend a League of the South meeting?