Samildanach Posted:

Now I have to ask if you’re kidding me. You think it would have been better to leave human beings as ****ing property for a few more decades because some backwards ****s were making too much money off of their blood and sweat to ever let them go? You think basic human rights should wait until the privileged clbumes somehow magically evolve into a better recognition of other people’s humanity? You want to pretend that there would have been anywhere near the amount of progress we’ve made, more or less “better” progress, if people hadn’t been up and active to force the issue? You’re comfortable with people living entirely different lives based on where they were born, or to where they were abducted?

I don’t give a **** how you justify the rest of your bull**** ideology, the fact that you actually think allowing human misery to continue until the white voters were “comfortable” with the idea of treating Africans as people means that I have no reason to bother talking to you. The fact that you think the nation could have really survived with someone being acknowledged as a person ten feet over one side of an imaginary line and regarded as a piece of ****ing farm equipment ten feet the other way means that I can safely include you among the list of people I wouldn’t trust to govern themselves.

You think in terms of today. Yes it would be an outrage if their were slaves today and they would be immediately free and set equal. But at the time people thought different. And it wasn’t because they were evil. Something considered good by society today may be evil in 100 years. You only think in terms of right and wrong AS YOU KNOW IT. Slavery was on the way out when it was abolished and most historians agree that it would have been over in a few years. Yet the government’s interference in the matter caused blacks to endure another 50 years of jim crow laws. Do you think Abraham Lincoln was a evil man?

”I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position bumigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

That sounds pretty bad to me. I guess you are better person than he was.