TransformativeOne

TransformativeOne t1_ixu76r1 wrote

Reply to comment by PorkfatWilly in TIL, that by 1860, there were nearly 4 million people enslaved in the United States. by MookieV

First of all I don't watch MSNBC, I read books. History books you might give it a try. First-hand accounts of what it was like written by the people who were there at the time. You can spin it any way you want but the fact remains that millions of people were enslaved for hundreds of years. Civil War was fought over whether or not we could continue treating human beings as property. The South likes to reframe it just as they're attempting to do today and say they were defending their homeland but the reality is it was all about whether or not as a country we're going to allow that important policy. So you can spin it any way you want my good friend I know what path I choose.

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TransformativeOne t1_ixu68r1 wrote

Reply to TIL, that by 1860, there were nearly 4 million people enslaved in the United States. by MookieV

No, no, no. According to the new guidelines by Texas Florida Virginia etc there wasn't slavery it was "involuntary relocation". You can't tell White kids that Black people were enslaved, beaten, raped, murdered, families separated, human beings treated worse than animals because that might make them feel bad. So you have to sanitize it and make up new words and lie and say things like, it wasn't that bad, they kept families together, they were just more like hired hands and they were treated pretty good.

It's disgusting, it's horrible that African-American people had to go through this and for hundreds of years were treated so horrifically. And now to have these POS try to sanitize it and make it something that never occurred because they don't want to look at the history because there's many scholars will tell you when you study your history and you feel bad that helps you to correct it and make sure that it never happens again. But when you sanitize it minimize it lie about it guess what it happens over and over and over.

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