The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67936 Message #1143662
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
23-Mar-04 - 06:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: slavery, poverty and culture
Subject: RE: BS: slavery, poverty and culture
Why take sides in such an indignant way all this time later? No doubt there was injustice towards white southerners, but does it begin to measure up to the injustice done to black Americans over two hundred years and more, and the damage this has done to your whole history?
Getting angry about the past is pointless. Trying to find ways to undo the way the distortion caused by a republic founded on the acceptance of slavery, and the damage caused in the process of trying lie with that legacy and its consequences - that's what surely matters.