Frank, I’m not doubting YOUR personal beliefs, but what do you make of the following comments?
“The fact of the matter is, being made a slave was the best thing that ever happened to those blacks. The vast majority of blacks that were made slave were simply captives from internal tribal conflicts among Africans. If they had no value, they would simply have been slaughtered (as they are today). Instead, since they had value as slaves, they were allowed to live, sold to slavers, and then brought to the greatest nation on the face of the Earth while their brethren were left in the hell hole of Africa.”
“Africa was such a horrible place to live that many Africans volunteered to come to America as slaves. The problem was that some of their descendants wanted out of the deal.”
“Some slaves were mistreated, but most were treated as beloved members of the family much as pets are today.
Would you condemn all pet owners because a few beat there pets or some fight them against each other? Should the states that allow pet ownership be justifiably burnt to the ground as someone suggested was deserved of the South earlier in this thread?”
“The point was, every argument you use to justify pet ownership can be applied to slave ownership.”
What do you think is the common component to each one of these FReepers?
I think slavery ended about 100 years before I was born, soall I know is what’s in the history books.
I have heard that many slaves did not want to leave the plantations once they were freed, I mean where would they go? On the plantations, they had food, shelter, and relative safety. Not all slave owners were cruel to the slaves.
It was another time, today’s thoughts and principles were non-existent then. It was the way things were.
Insofar as treating slaves like “pets”...well I guess any ill-informed writer today could spin it at way for crowd reaction with their so-called “poetic license”, but I’ve never heard that particular observation. The democrat party treats blacks more like “pets” than slave-owners ever did, and, in bulk!
Regardless of all that, slavery is long-gone, but the idea of it is what keeps the race onagers in spending-money. They use it as an excuse when they don’t get their way on issues...like spoiled children threatening to “hold their breath”.
Like the IRS, they see most whites as “guilty (of racism) until proven innocent by a big lawsuit/shakedown payoff.”. But the kicker is, the most offended by things, like the N-word, are WHITE liberals, trying to make blacks think “they care” to keep them on the democrat plantation. More often than not, accusations of “racism” are focused on conservatives as a means to that end, and to win elections,
Slavery’s never coming back, unless Obama continues his quest for dictatorship, then well all be in that slave galley together.