woodwork201
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It's amazing how you twist history and truth. You completely ignored the portions of the document by pro-slavery people from Texas, commenting about an attempt to break away from the United States because the majority of the states were AGAINST slavery. The document you quoted was written in 1861, long after the founding of the United States and represents what some Texans at that time thought. It is not, in any way, shape, or form, evidence of the actual founding of this country.What do you call a person who believes black people are inferior to whites?
The whole state of Texas left the Union (among others) because they weren't being allowed to freely engage in their white supremacy beliefs and practices
Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility [sic] and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings.She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. [snipped][snipped]We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable."
You are completely ignoring the fact, also, that it was in Texas where slavery officially ended, the last state to do so, on June 19, 1865. While you probably spout the words Juneteenth over and over again every year, you completely ignore the real meaning of the date, meaning that even in Texas, slavery has been over for 157 years.
Yes, there were evil people in Texas in its early history. The United States, though, kicked their ass and a United States Army General, General Gordon Granger, ended slavery even in Texas, at the point of an American gun.