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Not only is your conclusion stupid but to call slaves "bonded" workers is so ignorant I'm surprised you're able to use a computer.
"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age,who, that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages".
That's the bit that his fans like to quote. He continues on slavery....
"I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race. While my feelings are strongly enlisted on behalf of the the latter, my sympathies are more deeply engaged with the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race and will prepare them, I hope, for better things."
What a nice man.
"The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary to further their instruction as a race."
He wasn't talking about black slaves in America. HHe was talking about Africans. He believed that the blacks were better off being slaves in America than free in Africa never having seen America.
Also I love this point about the benefit of hindsight 100 years later. You seem to be admitting,
at last, that conserving the status quo is not always a good thing and progressive thought has some material improvement to society. It's a good thing libs have foresight.
It's gone One o'clock here, Goodnight.
My syntax above, not so great.
General lee is basically saying what we are doing to slaves is better than leaving them native Africans. The line" the painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary to the further instruction of their race". So he is talking about black slaves but not that they were badly behaved slaves per se but that they were AFRICANS and had to be 'humanized' by Europeans.That in their native state could not be classed as fully evolved societies.
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LOL! I know that's not supposed to be funny! But it struck me as hilarious!
What he did is not ANYTHING like what the Confederate soldiers did while defending their homes!!!
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What he did was just as sick as what the Confederate soldier was defending; the right to own and enslave another human being.
Don't get me wrong. I say I'm fine with all flags. Come one. come all.
I am really impressed with the "various hate groups stole the battle flag to misuse it for evil purpose" excuse.
But see that's what America is about, you don't have to understand and agree with what everone else thinks, to respect their right to think differently from you!
If you are coming from a Liberal perspective - try to remember the openmindedness!
No one is defending that right pheasant.
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Indeed they are, Zann.
THink of it this way - Home...that has your family - ALL your family. ARe there a few in your family that have done things you might not be so proud of? - but they're still your family, and its still your home.