[central_va]

You, like the typical Southern hater, compare 150 years ago to today’s standards of racial relations. 150 years ago Lincoln was mainstream, but in actuality by today’s standards he was a racist of the 1st degree. Almost everyone in 1860 would be considered an extreme racist and a bigot today. 150 years ago slavery was socially acceptable to most ALL Americans North and South, to all but I tiny minority of abolitionists who were considered kooks and radicals.

[rockrr]

Do you have any conception of the sheer hypocrisy you show when you utter those words against Vermont Lt
in almost the same breath as you condemned Lincoln for the very same "crime"?

Have you no shame at all?

[Vermont Lt]

Does that make it right? A majority voted for Obamacare. A majority voted for the Iraq war.

Right is right. Slavery, no matter the times or the norms are wrong. Period. No man is inferior by nature of their race. Period.

To believe otherwise in 1840, 1860, or 2013 doesn’t matter.

All of the arguments for the confederacy lose the second emancipation is not the first order of business.

Your lawn must be getting long, my slave lovin rebel friend.