[Jamestown1630]

'...then what we believe is beyond credulity in my opinion.'

This is one of the hardest things in our history. I understand the arguments of the Founders doing their best to create a Union; but if all of the people had truly taken to heart the ideals in our Declaration, the slaves might have foregone hundreds of years of further slavery and failure to achieve true citizenship.

Given frail human nature, I guess it had to happen the way that it did; but we paid a horrible price a hundred years later, and many still didn't learn the lesson for another hundred years. And the stupidity still carries on - we've just been trying, since the Johnson years, to destroy Black people further.

We've made a mess for ourselves. There's no getting around it.

[cowboyusa]

Blame Eli Whitney.