(August 20, 2017 at 7:44 pm)Dropship Wrote:(August 20, 2017 at 7:27 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No, I do not think there should be monuments that glorify those who fought to keep slavery.
What is so hard to understand about that?
I heard the Civil War started because the South got fed up of being bossed around by the north, and slavery was only a part of it.
For example, before the war the north manned Fort Sumter with northern troops smack in the middle of the south's Charleston harbor, what cheek!
(August 20, 2017 at 7:39 pm)chimp3 Wrote: What do you mean "not knowing what to believe"? Do you doubt Africans were kept as chattel?..
Like I said, Alex Haley was proven to have lied through his teeth when he wrote 'Roots'..
So we have to use our own logic to deduce that slaves weren't treated anywhere as bad as the propaganda makes out.
I mean, if a slave owner bought slaves for big bucks to work his land, the last thing he's going to do is mistreat them! Instead, he'll feed them, house them, clothe and medcare them to protect his investment and get years of work out of them..
You heard?! What the fuck does that mean or have to do with anything? Are you just looking for something that tweaks your emotional trigger to decide to believe?
What logic did you apply that says since Roots was not a strict historical account, then slavery was ok?
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
