If I chose to live on a plantation, trading my time working in the field for a home and food, that is my choice. Slaves had no choice. They could not leave. Their children could not leave. That is the antithesis of the American dream.
That's exactly right. And, worse, their children (or parents, or spouses, or siblings, etc.) could be--and often were--sold and the family forcibly separated. To praise the "family structure" that existed under slavery is ignorant at best.
You mean like having no choice in paying tax after tax on the earnings you make to provide a better life for your family and the endless piles of regulation to try and prevent you from working for yourself (my American dream)???
So how is that better having your government telling you that you cannot fend for yourself. That you need their largesse to survive.
That you willingly CHOOSE the plantation. That you collar yourself...
You are no less a slave.
Bundy isn’t the most articulate, but his sentiments are in no way “Racist”.
Not to mention that stating that slaves were able to keep their family structure together is historically inaccurate anyway. Slave families were routinely split up when owners sold family members to other plantation owners.
“Slaves had no choice. They could not leave. Their children could not leave. That is the antithesis of the American dream.”
Such as the case with the welfare state. . .but they don’t have to work to reap the ‘benefits.’
>> That is the antithesis of the American dream.
Of course the thesis of the American dream is neither about fatherless homes, abortion, incarceration, crack, welfare, etc...