Post by novastar6 on Jan 8, 2021 5:22:01 GMT
Okay, let me ask you a question. Would you go to war and fight against your literal own flesh and blood, fight in a kill or be killed situation against your own actual brother, just so a bunch of rich guys who you don't know and don't have anything to do with, could keep THEIR slaves? Do you really think all the poor men fighting and dying owned slaves? Do you know what it took to be exempt from fighting? A union man had to pay $300, which adjusted for inflation today would be $9,400. A confederate man had to own 20 slaves to be exempt, some slaves back then sold for $1,000, a single slave would sell for the equivalent of $30,000 today, so to be exempt from fighting, they had to own up to the equivalent of $627,000 worth of slaves. You think the guys who were starving because they couldn't afford $1.10 for a pound of bacon had that kind of money laying around to own people? So again, would you go to war and kill your own family for a bunch of rich people to own slaves?
It's your opinion that's what they do. You think that was going through anybody's mind the entire time millions of people tuned in every week to see Dukes of Hazzard, or did you forget what the General Lee looked like? Guess who was outraged by it...nobody. Black people didn't picket the show, ancestors of slaves didn't picket the show, nobody picketed the show, everybody loved it, everybody was too smart to be offended 'waaaaah, there's a confederate flag on top of the car, it's so racist!'