I'm surprised how many DU'ers think aknowledging white male privilege is somehow bigoted

[TheKentuckian]

432. You used the word "likely", bill. I think"on occasion" used above is much more accurate.

Nor did everyone live in the antebellum south. I have never seen any indication that those who owned slaves were not a small minority compared to the population at large.

Most certainly slaves were treated as livestock but everybody nor even most owned. Probably because they too were too poor if for no other reason, regardless of inclination.

If you didn't live in the south, I imagine slavery would be problematic just because of taking the floor out of labor, even if you were the most racist son of a bitch in the world. I'd imagine plenty hated slavery and black folks with a white hot passion. I also imagine there were whites in the south that loved black folks and hated slavery and all kinds of different thoughts.

Plenty had to be going on with diversity of opinion with white folks or slavery wouldn't have been ended and wouldn't be hotly debated the entire time. The Pottery Barn rule I assume is you broke it, you buy it (don't know much about it, don't shop there) and control over what was broken was in the hands of the few and the most powerful and wealthy. Many didn't even have the vote, to be given even that level of owning circumstances.

At some point, you pretty much get into a corruption of blood situation here, to be born alive and white is to be guilty. I'm a descendant of master, slave, and dispossessed but cannot go that far.