[MamaB]

Not every white person owned land either. Where do people come up with junk like this? I can still remember the friends who lived on someone’s land as sharecroppers. I also remember Black friends of my parents who owned houses in town and some owned farms. Some people are still stuck on stupid. Not every person is a victim.

[kearnyirish2]

“Not every white person owned land either.”

The number of soldiers who fought for the Confederacy that couldn’t afford a single slave is conveniently ignored; today we’re led to believe that southern slaveowners alone fought for the Confederacy, while the truth is that a large number of poor whites in the South weren’t much better off than slaves (in fact, fear of economic competition from blacks motivated them during & after the war).

Can’t let facts get in the way of our convenient myths, though...