Don't Tell Black People...

[sheshe2]

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I didnt want to believe the main reason trumpers are mad is

this, but it is surely.

Well, that and they wanna kill Women and doctors.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Brats ...

shoulda been spanked long ago.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Good point...nt

[brush]

5. None of their broke asses would owned anyone. They'd have been working...

for the man just like enslaved people, only they'd have been getting minimum wage and liking it.

[Aristus]

8. Slavery meant that these fuckdribbles wouldn't be on the bottom of the socioeconomic

ladder.

Once the ban on slavery levelled the playing field a little, that's when the lynching started. They had to feel superior somehow...

[Backseat Driver]

36. There are many employed at minimum wage

that must "like it" to keep it! They are neither supporters of the GOP, fuckdribbles, nor necessarily broken asses that got a lickin' in the woodshed of life.

I protest the name-calling as it pertains to the general population. If it was stated to only pertain to MAGATs, so be it! They seriously do need some re-programming of the brain cells no matter their self-impression of their IQ or wealth.

[catrose]

42. Except that slaves were valuable. So the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs went to these guys.

They'd work for practically free.

[Aristus]

46. Whatever slaves' monetary value, slaveowners didn't seem to have any problem

mistreating them.

[catrose]

49. Not a bit.

[uponit7771]

55. +1, but on just economy ladder alone they were at the bottom cause slavery suppressed wages. Slaves

... did more than pic cotton they were also the carpenters, black smiths, ship builders etc.

The people who fought for the south fought to make sure rich people kept their property, I don't see how that was a good thing for them

[Yavin4]

9. Who would use paid labor when there's slavery?

They wouldn't be getting anything at all. They would be subsistence farmers living in the mountains.

[brush]

13. Overseers and such, but you're right. Many would've been broke ass...

subsistence farmers being told they were superior to the enslaved people and thus divided and conquered to the advantage of the slavers, as early on during enslavement there were white indentured servants and they started intermixing with the enslaved, even marrying.

Slavers soon put a stop to that in fear of uprising by preaching white superiority and separating them as together they vastly outnumber slaver families.

[Yavin4]

17. Subsistence farmers would be wiped out by any number of environmental disasters

Flood, droughts, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. Also, given the immense wealth that the slavers would accumulate, they would push these poor subsistence farmers off of the more fertile soil.

They would be starving with no means to provide for themselves. They would wage war against the slave owners and slaves alike. IOW, a Civil war or some other form of armed conflict was inevitable had slavery been allowed to continue.

[uponit7771]

56. +1

[marble falls]

27. It most certainly was about labor for cotton - that went to Northern factories largely ...

but a very big part of it purely had to with the money in the market of buying and selling humans on the slave market. There were fortunes made purely on speculation in humans.

[Hekate]

28. Owning another human being is an investment that needs to be kept up: food, clothing, shelter...

And if you think your “investment” reproduces for nothing, wrong again. An infant does not begin earning its way for quite a few years.

I don’t think poor whites were in the market for slaves — but thanks to intentional social programming then and now, African Americans were a population poor whites could look down on.

What a shameful and cruel system or national “birth defect” was and is.

[Backseat Driver]

33. I think that's now called living off-grid on a homestead, and this trendy living isn't really as

inexpensive as it sounds! All that "hard work's" has been partially replaced by conveniences, technology, and "freedom," but is still a far cry from Little House on the Prairie or the land registration races of Far and Away, and their doctors, then, accepted payment in chickens and their families and preachers, a stipend and perhaps room and board.

Now that we live from sea to shining sea, "The land, Katie Scarlett, is the only thing that matters" (GWTW) still, but there's so many right now that work hard enough but cannot own affordable housing with a small yard in the cities or 'burbs; indeed many forego the small yard to live where the business and entertainment venues "happens," while the 1% earn more just by breathing and have multiple investment in real estate, commercial and residential, and everything else.

Just like healthcare for themselves and their families linked to employment, ways to meet costs that exceed what Medicare pays and/or covers are neither easily accessible or far more costly than what many seniors, innocent of laziness, and/or discriminated against in the so-called protected classes of workers can even access and pay. Nor can these folks access and pay for lawyers to represent the injustices under which they've fallen.

It's hard to think that every one of the "discriminations" really starts with white supremacy under a Judeo-Christian legacy, but there it is! And such a sensitive embedded problem it is from Day 1 of the forefathers' signing The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, and the Constitution of the United States of America, Bill of Rights, and Amendments adopted thereof.

[ashredux]

14. Maybe...but they would have the shotgun

[betsuni]

35. "Do you know how much a slave cost back then?"

[Warpy]

61. ...and the men who owned slaves would have called them trash to their faces

That's one thing about the south I found particularly galling, the absolute lack of recognition of what trying to compete with slave labor had meant to their own forebears.

I'm not trying to minimize the experience of people who were kidnapped and sold into slavery. US slavery was absolutely the worst example of it, ever, although serfdom came close.

I'm just withing these chowderheads would have gotten a better education in the fact that their ow family's pre confederate condition was far from glorious. It was brutal. They weren't worth keeping alive as property.

[The Magistrate]

6. Excellent, Ma'am

It seems the War of Southern Treason never quite ends....

[malaise]

7. Great post

Rec

[MustLoveBeagles]

10. I just roll my eyes

when these ignorant jackasses tell POC, without irony, that they need to get over slavery and stop living in the past. Hello?! WTF would they call what they're doing?

[marble falls]

11. Good stuff: Hows mom doing?

[sheshe2]

21. She turned 94 in July.

She is doing okay.

Thanks, marble falls.

[marble falls]

25. Holy-moly! Good for her. Even as important - I hope you're doing well, too!

[George II]

12. Or losing their war.

[llashram]

15. POW!!!

damn, hit them with what hurts, the truth

[Illumination]

16. Who would want to work for these super spreading ignoramuses even with pay?

[Roc2020]

18. That is mainly what it's about for most Trump supporters

Trump could be Hitler does not matter. Blacks are proud to be Black. Have power. And have a buying economy of over 1 Trillion.

[usaf-vet]

19. 55 years ago this October this "damn yankee" saw my first rebel flag. 51 years this October.........

...... I thought I had once and for all seen my last rebel flag as I drove north to my home state of MA.

Then along came a racist president unlike any I have seen in my lifetime. WOW, what a sad state of affairs.

[iluvtennis]

20. K&R. nt

[Harker]

22. So... if they're flying their flag upside down

are they in distress? Surrendering? Too ignorant to know it?

[KT2000]

23. This is so perfect

and indisputable!

[safeinOhio]

24. If they don't like Black folks,

they should have picked their own damn cotton.

[Tarc]

26. These people ain't seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one

to quote some wise young men.

[Hekate]

29. Excellent post, She

Remember LBJ said:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon Johnson

[Aviation91]

30. Right On!!!

[niyad]

31. KNR

[liberalla]

32. DAMN ! Bullseye !

[TNNurse]

34. I bet 100% of the people in that photo

come from families that did not have enough money or property to own slaves, or were from places where slavery was not common.

In other words, liars and frauds, just plain old racists.

[smirkymonkey]

37. K&R

[sandensea]

38. Best of all: 98% of Antebellum-era White folks owned NO slaves

Save for a small professional/merchant middle class most pre-1865 Southern White families were, in fact, worse off than the slaves themselves.

Slaves were, after all, property - and had to be cared for accordingly.

Poor "white trash" were nothing, to no one.

[sheshe2]

48. " Slaves were, after all, property - and had to be cared for accordingly."

You should read this book.

Slavery by Another Name
-Douglas Blackmon

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/douglas-blackmon

[uponit7771]

57. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 ... then they went and fought so rich people can keep their property !! That's

... like Trump people fighting so Trump can keep his toilets, buncha brain dead assed people.

[sandensea]

58. Thanks. History does tend to repeat itself, doesn't it.

First as tragedy, then as farce.

[uponit7771]

59. 👍

[NoRoadUntravelled]

39. I love this post. Wish I could come up with zingers like that.

[Beartracks]

40. OMG Yes. The "lost cause" was lost and they need to get over it. n/t

[lunatica]

41. Oh Snap!

[AmyStrange]

43. Unintended consequences...

-

During slavery, cotton was cheap and most of the textile mills were up North, but then they started building them in the South, and guess what happened?

There were many true abolitionist back then, but the Civil War was not totally about freeing the slaves.
===========

[sheshe2]

47. And slavery did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation.

It did not end until WWI. Slavery by Another Name.

[AmyStrange]

50. Exactly! n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

44. That is spot on!

[Blue Owl]

45. K&R

[electric_blue68]

51. SMACK DOWN! W000t!

[angrychair]

52. True. Story. N/T

[Nitram]

53. LOL!

[SunSeeker]

54. K & R

[calimary]

60. BOOM!!!!!!!!