Again NOT a Nikki fan, but the slavery angle is overused and pounded into whites like a sword. The war was not started or about slavery when it started.
Most Southerners did NOT own slaves or want to. Yes it became an issue AFTER the war started but even then, Lincoln was willing to let it stay if the South gave up by a certain date.
So, even the North wasn’t willing to continue the war to free slaves.
The Southern economy was based on slavery. There were blacks that owned slaves, there were whites who did not. The bone of contention was that the North’s push to eliminate slavery was a threat to the south’s economy. The correct way would have been to transition so that the southern economy could have adjusted and developed ways of flourishing.
A house divided cannot stand. The North did not make the effort to stand in the South’s shoes. Alienation developed.
Anyone who ignores the economic impact of slavery and the pressures that lead to the war is a tool, like Nimrata who is trying desperately to navigate the political needle rather than reflecting the true, complex nature of the Civil War. Her comments were disgusting, a mishmash of platitudes, a disrespectful confirmation of her belief that Americans are stupid.
She continues to surprise to the downside which I thought was impossible.