Your point was well made. I was taking the opportunity to remind people that thousands of blacks owned slaves. Those very people who walk around with a chip on their shoulder are descendants of slave owners.
Okay, I’m sorry and thank you for the clarification.
Yeah, there was an early Republican congressman named Robert Smalls who freed himself and then owned slaves. Kind of weird. He was an interesting guy, even if that’s pretty distasteful.
Yesterday, someone was complaining about how racist the “2/3 a person” thing was (3/5 is what it really was, of course). HOW can they not know that that was a compromise to limit the power of the slave states? I can’t even deal with these people.