Slavery

I'm confused by Blue Lady's comments from her last posting. During a previous post, she says the civil war was about states rights, not slavery. In the last posting, she says the war was indeed about slavery. Okay, which is it? It was about states rights. The abolition of slavery came from Lincoln's idea to send slaves back to Africa. He didn't want to have to deal with them. Also, what makes the idea of Northern slaves alright, but not Southern slaves? Isn't slavery what it is? Remember, the northerners sold them to the South, right at the ports in NYC. They gained, as well, in the matter of money. They aren't squeaky clean in this whole matter. They didn't care about the slaves. Wasn't it their objective to keep the south from succession and to keep the union together? I think slavery was horrific in any manner, but I don't owe an apology to anyone for it today. It's been acknowledged over and over. It's time for blacks to get over it and move on. The problem is, if they do, then who do they have to blame for their choices they make? How can they still be "victims"?

I recently spoke to a teacher from South Africa. Now they've certainly had publicized racial issues. He said he was amazed as to the amount of black on white racism in this country. He said as bad as it is there, they get along much better than here. I told him he was in the South, and we'll always be blamed for their lack of responsibility on an indivdual basis. There is no doubt there is more prejudice coming from blacks today about whites than whites toward blacks. Just look at the liberal newspapers. Everything turns into a black on white issue and the same old rhetoric. If they listened to Bill Cosby and Charles Barkely and took their own destinies into their hands, they'd be much better off. Hell, affirmative action has turned into reverse discrimination, but it's too easy to blame "whitey" for things that happened too many years ago, thus shirking personal responsibility.