“I think the seeds of the destruction of this nation were sown before the nation became a nation. It is in our acceptance of slavery and even protecting it with the creation of the nation.
We will never recover. Slavery was fatal to us. It has just taken a long time for the infection to kill us, even though the original projectile was removed by the Civil War.”
Some harvests of wrath take centuries to grow.
You’re right, of course. The finest observation I ever read on the peculiar institution:
“We should have picked our own cotton.”
Somebody else wrote that, but I wrote this:
“We should have mowed our own lawns....”
I always did mow my own lawn, and often other peoples.