re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg

This.

All of this.

I’ve been to Savannah, Charleston, and VA, visiting several plantations and historic sites. At least you can’t help but ask who built the homes for the owners. Were they compensated? Nope. They were enslaved persons. Did they have a say in working the fields or enriching the people who owned them? Nope.

The entire southern economy was based on the premise that white folks could indefinitely own blacks, and treat them accordingly without care or consequence.

There are some who romanticize that and seek to regain what was lost after the South lost.