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So basically the blame the south card for all the racism and slavery in the U.S....
No, blame the South for the slavery and racism in the South, which continued, and was defended by the state at the end of police guns until the 1960s. Goodness, why does every argument for the flag have to descend into a series of straw men and red herrings.
I guess they really made you feel guilty for something you had no part in sweetie. I see no reason, why I should feel ashamed for something that was considered common since the biblical times and still is common to this day.
I said I was ashamed of that part of our collective history in the South. How can I not be? Should I be proud that the leaders of the South disenfranchised millions of black residents for a century following the Civil War through Jim Crow laws that had the effect of spitting on the Constitution of the U.S., and that these policies had the broad support of whites in the South?
I'm proud the vast, vast majority of Southerners have overcome that systemic, socially accepted, even expected racism that dominated the region from the founding through the 1960s or so, but to be proud of how we've changed I have to recognize and be ashamed of our past history. Sorry, but saying "Daddy was also a racist" would not excuse my racism, so that it was "common since the biblical times" is nothing more than a comment on human depravity through all of recorded history, and is not in any way an excuse for it.
Also you forget it was not just whites that sold people into slavery so did blacks in the USA. In fact, most slavers in Africa where blacks Africans from a diffrent tribe
Yeah, and so what? The elected leaders in the South that passed and maintained white supremacy defended by the police state were all (100%) white, mostly self proclaimed "Christians." If you're pointing out that blacks here and in Africa can also engage in unconscionable practices, yes, that is no doubt true.
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