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Grumpy Geezer
| Joined: | Thu Sep 1st, 2005 |
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Does anyone (deep down) actually believe that if the South had won the war, we would be watching the "Slave-Shopping Network" and surfing "E-Slave" in 2005? Would we not have righted the wrongs of the past by the times of today's modern and more civilized society?
Not the answer you want to hear I suppose but...
It wasn't until the 1960's that this country saw fit to pass a Civil Rights bill - a full 100 years after the war. Even then, many representatives of the South fought it tooth and nail. Remember Wallace, Helms, etc.? And all of this was under a government that supposedly was in favor of equality.
Now you want to know whether a government which (hypothetically) had it's roots fighting, at least in part, to preserve slavery and "seperate and unequal" would have righted the wrongs by now. With no disrespect intended.... I think not. As you said, just MHO.