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You do have to feel a bit sorry for Mick Mulvaney
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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4241958" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Sure bbsam, they sat around in backrooms smoking cigars and laughing about how they're really sticking it to the Africans. If you are born into the system, and are told from a child up this is the way of things, that it's your right and your responsibility, what would you believe? Not talking about the rightness or wrongness, just that people believed that's just the way it is. And you know what? If we hadn't develop machines that made it much more economical and efficient to not own slaves there would still be slavery worldwide. You can look through your modern day prism and see the evil inherent in such a system. There were men in those times who could see the evil too. Long before Lincoln or John Brown. But they had no sway over the powers that be because the rich and powerful were going to do what was necessary to get wealthy. And fought like crazy to keep that system when the time came because they believed it was the right way, the only way(and they were wrong). I realize being part black makes you much more sensitive to the subject, but I'm trying to discuss this in an objective way rather than a "let's burn it all down because so and so did evil things in the past."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4241958, member: 24302"] Sure bbsam, they sat around in backrooms smoking cigars and laughing about how they're really sticking it to the Africans. If you are born into the system, and are told from a child up this is the way of things, that it's your right and your responsibility, what would you believe? Not talking about the rightness or wrongness, just that people believed that's just the way it is. And you know what? If we hadn't develop machines that made it much more economical and efficient to not own slaves there would still be slavery worldwide. You can look through your modern day prism and see the evil inherent in such a system. There were men in those times who could see the evil too. Long before Lincoln or John Brown. But they had no sway over the powers that be because the rich and powerful were going to do what was necessary to get wealthy. And fought like crazy to keep that system when the time came because they believed it was the right way, the only way(and they were wrong). I realize being part black makes you much more sensitive to the subject, but I'm trying to discuss this in an objective way rather than a "let's burn it all down because so and so did evil things in the past." [/QUOTE]
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