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To: RegulatorCountry
So, let's just chalk Freeper Drennan Whyte up in the "not human at all" category, then.

That was the position of the Southern representatives to the Constitutional convention. That was the position of the Southern population up to, through, and in many cases after the Civil War was over. The whole Southern society was built on a master race concept and the ownership of other human beings. Does your condemnation extend to them as well?

57 posted on 12/27/2010 11:31:45 AM PST by Drennan Whyte
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To: Drennan Whyte
The whole Southern society was built on a master race concept and the ownership of other human beings.

"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone 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."
-- Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy
63 posted on 12/27/2010 11:36:06 AM PST by TexasAg
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To: Drennan Whyte
The whole Southern society was built on a master race concept and the ownership of other human beings.

My goodness, firing up that wacky wayback machine once again, I see, darkly attributing some vaguely Hitlerian concept, a century prior to the advent of Nazism.

There was no "whole southern society," as if it or anyplace else was some sort of monolith. There were entire regions of the south that did not embrace slavery.

I suggest you make the attempt to move beyond the bizarre pop history taught in public school and actually read a little. Quakers, Moravians, Republican strongholds in the Appalachians opposed to the point of actually splitting off (West Virginia) or attempting to do so (the abortive attempt to revive the Free State of Franklin) ... all that means nothing when you buy into the whole, oddly hypnotic and historicist "slave power" mythos that was handed to you on a silver platter.

You've bought into the revisionism, hook line and sinker, have demonized an entire people on that basis, and have the temerity to prattle about the "master race." Do you ever listen to yourself?

68 posted on 12/27/2010 11:44:43 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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