tea party rally = GOP is racist, re_nortex wrote:I think you’ll both be intrigued by this video of the Black Confederate. You might want to have a hankie handy since it’s such a moving story of a truly brave black man standing up for Southern heritage and striking a blow against liberal political correctness.
Blacks who fought in the Confederacy did so with their slave masters.
They had no choice to do so willingly.
Slavery for blacks in the South was not some idealistic utopia. It was harsh, violent and deadly. That’s southern heritage for blacks.
If that man in the picture lived in Mississippi as a slave in the 1860’s I doubt he’d be speaking of the Confederate slave owner who whipped him so well.
You actually have the hubris to believe you are more knowledgeable than the guy involved in the display?
This Free Republic thread of May 2010 is thought-provoking and presents some alternative points to your assertions. Also, outstanding Conservative and respected historian Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote:
Just as Europeans enslaved Africans, North Africans enslaved Europeans — more Europeans than there were Africans enslaved in the United States or in the 13 colonies from which the nation was formed.
The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves who picked cotton. But there are no movies or television dramas about it comparable to Roots, and our schools and colleges don’t pound it into the heads of students.
And there's Michele Bachmann who stands behind this statement:
Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President.
The thread cited containing that quote offers varying viewpoints on that matter, as is typical of hot topics here on Free Republic.
You know there were black slave owners right?
There is also the frequency of rape on the part of slave masters.
In many cases black slaves had the slave master as their father. Such was life for Fredrick Douglass and countless other slaves.
Sadly, Strom Thurmond had committed statutory rape as a young man against an under age daughter of a family servant. Long after he left the Democrat (and Dixiecrat) party the facts came out. At least he did provide financial support for his daughter that resulted from that illegal union.