re: #135 SpaceJesus

in case a southerner tells you this wasn’t about slavery, remind their redneck butts about Alexander H. Stephens’s cornerstone speech of the confederacy.

[Link: teachingamericanhistory.org…]

in relevant part,

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.” -Alexand Stephens, VP of the Confederacy

Reading that makes me want to vomit.