“He’s from the South, just another Plantation owner trying to justify his slaves.”
I’m from the South too, does that mean I’m a plantation owner? Southerners don’t own slaves anymore.
“I’m from the South too, does that mean I’m a plantation owner?”
No, obviously it doesn’t.
As any Southerner or descendant of Southern Abolitionists (like me) knows, plantation owners were only about 3-5% of the population and the vast majority of whites were subsistence farmers...also like my German Anabaptist and Scots-Irish ancestors who settled most of the South. In addition to my Huguenot ancestors who went with Oglethorpe into Georgia.
The plantation owners were a small subset of the Southern population who were in large part hated by the common people of the South for a lot of good reasons: they employed only black people they owned, financed politicians who made life hard for the white tenant farmer and small business class, and in many cases early in Southern history were absentee landlords who sent corrupt English petty officials into settler areas to harass them - thus creating the conditions for rebellion. Such as the Regulator rebellion which is of course the source of my FR handle and the work of my ancestors as well. But you knew that, right?
Hinton Rowan Helper wrote of all of this in the 1850’s and later after the War. In his writings he sided with the Plain Folk of the Old South - my ancestors - who were routinely screwed by the plantation owner class and ultimately destroyed by the war that resulted, and worse, the Yankee plunderfest known as “Reconstruction”.
So no, bubba, don’t mean you is a plantation owner. Just a reference to a small group of people who always promote their own interest at the expense of the many: Tim Cook being just the latest in a long line of white psychopaths who always look for non-white labor to victimize for their own profit, with the ancillary benefit of being able to use said profits to try to politically dominate other whites.