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In reply to the discussion: Want to know why Obama is hated so much in the South? See 12 Years a Slave [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)I agree with you. I'd like to see women portrayed as artists, inventors, successful
for something other than soliciting sex or producing babies.
I think one of the things that struck me was that Solomon's obvious education and
literacy didn't raise a red flag for any of his owners. Black was black was subject
to ownership and property rights trumped everything for capitalism. Gee, if he could
figure out something to help the capitalist plantation, that was great, maybe give him a violin. But if he
couldn't pick enough cotton...well, too bad for him. And his freedom? Forget that.
Where is the discussion on this thread about capitalism? Where is the discussion
about the use of Scriptures to justify slavery? Is it possible that's a rationale
that is being used 150 years later to deny gays equal rights?
Where is the discussion about the rationale for militias in the Constitution--that were
necessary for the enforcement of slavery? Hello? Instead I'm being attacked for
the erroneous assumption that that I'm branding all southerners as bigots.
Eh. It's GD on DU. No wonder I stay mostly in the Lounge and Photography.