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For someone who lives in a commercial republic, you have a great disdain for money. I've known quite a few people who have such a disdain but generally they are socialists who want money but have no idea how to earn it. I’ve never claimed to be a great student of history, but I am of human nature. Frequently, I detect in black people, buried behind jocularity, an animosity and resentment that erupts from time to time, generally under stress. I suspect this animosity comes from a grievance against the world, the country, society, history, whatever, although I have no proof of my suspicion. Occasionally, I detect that same animosity among white Southerners. Such feelings were particularly prevalent among Southerners of my Mother’s generation; after all, her grandfather lived through Reconstruction and she learned of it from him. What is surprising is that this animosity still exists. One emotion that is common among some blacks and some white Southerners is a puerile belief in the purity of their motives and a desire to justify themselves to everyone with whom they converse.

I have no idea how long slavery would have lasted, if the American War of Secession had been averted. From time to time, I amuse myself by imagining scenarios that might lead individual Southern states to decide on emancipation. Generally, each scenario leads to a different conclusion. When I realize the futility of my actions, I comfort myself with the realization that no one knows how slavery would have lasted. This I do know: never was any group of people more badly served than were my ancestors (and all Southerners) by their elected representatives during the decade before 1860.

SORRY, but i don't agree. the leaders of the antebellum southland were, in the main, HONORABLE men, who TRIED to serve their constituents to the best of their ability. today's LOUTS that "serve the citizens" mostly serve THEMSELVES.

you might want to check out what the ETERNAL CHRIST said about "rich men", camels & needles.

what i probably DESPISE more than anything is HYPOCRYTES!

MANY of the DAMNyankee ELITISTS wanted to condemn EVERY southerner for "the institution of slavery" (even though the VAST majority of southerners owned NO slaves), while at the SAME time those same arrogant,SELF-righteous, sanctimonious,DYs were IN "the flesh trade".

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SORRY, but i don't agree. the leaders of the antebellum southland were, in the main, HONORABLE men, who TRIED to serve their constituents to the best of their ability. today's LOUTS that "serve the citizens" mostly serve THEMSELVES.

you might want to check out what the ETERNAL CHRIST said about "rich men", camels & needles.

what i probably DESPISE more than anything is HYPOCRYTES!

MANY of the DAMNyankee ELITISTS wanted to condemn EVERY southerner for "the institution of slavery" (even though the VAST majority of southerners owned NO slaves), while at the SAME time those same arrogant,SELF-righteous, sanctimonious,DYs were IN "the flesh trade".

free dixie,sw