NotYourBody
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- May 25, 2019
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Nah, you want to pretend that slavery was acceptable. It was acceptable ONLY to the slave owners. It was never acceptable to the slaves. No slave owner was moral. It is not possible to OWN another person's life and be a good person. NOT POSSIBLE. It was PURE EVIL. That's it. There is no justification for slavery. NONE.The debate from "both sides" just illustrates the need to distinguish the statues sponsored by the daughters of the confederacy to "enshrine jim crow" from 1890-1920 approximately from statues actually commemorating flawed leaders like Washington and Jefferson, and even more complex behaviors of Madison and Grant. Slavery is part of American history. We need to thoroughly finish the jo of killing jim crow while honestly facing how it came to be and how we to "now."
Jim Crow was a legal framework of discrimination, both political and economic. Those laws and frameworks are long gone, since the 60's.
What it boils down to is you want to be able to force people how to think, and we already have a blueprint for that, and no one really likes it.
Now some people will continue to think that, at one time, it was fine to own other people. Especially if you did not beat, rape, mutilate, brand, etc. etc. Today we call those people 'White Supremacists'. They are their own special breed of EVIL.