There are some sins which America would not want to repeat if we had it to do over. It did have a tendency to look down at black people. The first American chattel slavery case was that of a black slave of a black master. That demeaned both parties, but it was easy enough to say “oh, let them have their way, they don’t know better.” Fast forward to George W. Bush and “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” The problem was not one of doling out too few material goodies from one race to the other. The problem was a demeaning condescension.
Should have picked our own damned cotton.
“Soft bigotry of low expectations was actually Daniel Patrick Moynihan, not Bush.
Arch Liberal, and long-serving Democratic Senator from New York.
Progressives HATE having that thrown in their face.
All of that is true. In fact, the 3/5 compromise built into the Constitution may have made the Civil War inevitable. And while the problem of race relations has been an open sore in our country, it still remains that essential core of our country, and all of western civilization, was built by white people. By that, I mean:
Railroads, Steamships, Automobiles, Aircraft
Telegraph, Telephone, Satellites, Cellular phones
Computers, Television, Video Recordings, digital data storage
Coal, Oil, Natural gas and nuclear power
Breech-loading firearms, repeating firearms, machine guns, armored fighting vehicles, quick-firing artillery, ballistic missiles, thermonuclear weapons....