He was inarticulate when asking the question; Individual slave-owners or the government as slave-owners? Are they better off where the government keeps them on the government plantation and destroys the family by doing so?
They are better off on the government plantation, because they can leave it. They could not leave the slave platation.
“He was inarticulate when asking the question; Individual slave-owners or the government as slave-owners? Are they better off where the government keeps them on the government plantation and destroys the family by doing so?”
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on the racism charge.
But it was still an ignorant thing to say.
He painted all black people with the same broad brush.
What if I said “You know, after the Civil War the Union should have salted the earth because look at the southerner today. They live in trailers, they’re uneducated. If the land had been made uninhabitable they would have had to moved on from the mindset of the old south”.
That’s me painting every southerner with a broad brush based on a very small percentage of how real southerners are.
At best it’s ignorant.