A thinker is given to wonder whether a boom due to modern chattel slavery (however lesser arrangements like indentured servitude for passage persisted) was ever worth it. Because the cries of our modern secular left became plausible. Chattel slavery is now the tar baby of history that is impossible to walk away from once punched. If it’s really what made America viable economically, it served as proof that economics wasn’t all there was to life. Perhaps a different economy could have flourished till an industrial revolution gave us the cotton gin and the like. Even today we flirt with things elsewhere in the world close to slavery, which is why no American underwear, etc. That morally questionable commercial pursuit of dollars has exported away wealth that could have been ours. It has in fact punished us.
“I will take Durbin’s bait”
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Never do that. Never.
What is going to happen to all those miles of chain link fences? Will the racist structures be torn down?