re: #40 majii

I don’t think that’s what they’re after, FNB. I think they want to deny that slavery in the U.S. ever existed! RWers, especially in the South, are already rewriting history books to indicate that slavery wasn’t so bad. I’ve been black while living in the South for 60 years, and there are a lot of people who want to forget that GA and other states were slaveholding states, that the Civil War was about slavery, and that the negative effects of slavery persist to this day.

It’s the same reason why the gun nutters are pulling out the nonsense argument that if only the slaves had had guns, they wouldn’t have been slaves, or if only the Selma marchers had had guns, they would’ve gotten their rights faster.

O RLY? Because we all know that the white South, both pre-Civil War and in the Jim Crow era, would have been totally understanding about black people with guns demanding their rights. They wouldn’t have shot and/or lynched them at all.