Shenandoah County (Virginia) School Board votes to restore the Confederate memorial names of schools ...

[JoeB131]

In a plantation with a hundred slaves, only the owner actually owned them. They were his property
Others including family, white overseers, craftsmen did not own them but benefitted from slavery
The whole southern economy was built on free labor

This is very true. But it was more than that.

A lot of white southerners didn't want to compete with freed blacks for wages. Others were genuinely afraid that freed blacks would seek revenge for slavery once freed, the revolt in Haiti and Nat Turner's rebellion fresh in their minds.

AFTER the war, when all the dire stuff didn't happen, Southerners realized they kind of did a shitty thing, and that's when all the "Lost Cause" mythology about "States Rights" and such started cropping up.

 

[rightwinger]

Did most Confederate Soldiers own slaves?
No they didn’t.

Did Confederate Soldiers vote to maintain slavery?
Yes they did

Did Confederate soldiers quickly pass Jim Crow Laws to ensure second class citizenship?
Yes they did

Did Confederate soldiers support terrorist activities to “keep negroes in their place”?
Yes they did

 

[rightwinger]

Others were genuinely afraid that freed blacks would seek revenge for slavery once freed, the revolt in Haiti and Nat Turner's rebellion fresh in their minds.

They honestly believed that freed slaves would run around raping white women.

More so, they feared that negroes would gain equal status as white men

 

[Mac-7]

Well, that's unlikely. People would have still immigrated here from other countries. One of my very dear friends is a Jamaican woman.

Without slavery in the New World black Africans would have remained in Africa

The black population in America would have been no greater than the arab population, or the Indonesian or afghan population prior to 1965

Which was basically zero

America would be a much more harmonious country today without black poverty and bitterness toward white people

IM2 Curried Goats , and Superbadbrutha would not be running around bleating about white privilege and panhandling for reparations

Whats not to like about that?

 

[Curried Goats]

Without slavery in the New World black Africans would have remained in Africa

The black population in America would have been no greater than the arab population, or the Indonesian or afghan population prior to 1965

Which was basically zero

America would be a much more harmonious country today without black poverty and bitterness toward white people

IM2 Curried Goats , and Superbadbrutha would not be running around bleating about white privilege and panhandling for reparations

Whats not to like about that?

That's stupid. White people have been fighting each other long before you had multi racial populations. You morons are failures of basic fucking history.

 

[Mac-7]

That's stupid. White people have been fighting each other long before you had multi racial populations. You morons are failures of basic fucking history.

Historically yes, the euros sharpened their spears fighting among themselves

So much so that they dominated the world for 500 years

But we have mellowed with age

You dont see France invading Germany, or Holland declaring war on Italy

White people, except for Russia, have gotten better

 

[Curried Goats]

Historically yes, the euros sharpened their spears fighting among themselves

So much so that they dominated the world for 500 years

But we have mellowed with age

You dont see France invading Germany, or Holland declaring war on Italy

White people, except for Russia, have gotten better

You've grown softer the less you've had to fight for. That's why whites all over are passively allowing themselves to be demographically replaced in their own countries.