Pic Of The Moment: This Week In Pro-Slavery Republicans

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13. Nothing New

Sadly, the statements shown in the above graphic are nothing new. Statements like the ones listed in the graphics above have been made for years by Southerners and Republicans. During the time of Jim Crow, many white Southerners claimed that all the unrest about black people voting and segregation was just Northerners coming to the South and causing problems. White Southerners claimed that blacks loved the system just the way it was then structured. I assume very few of those people actually asked black people how they felt about the system in the South. In recent years, numerous republicans have made comments similar to those made by Martha Huckaby. Numerous Republicans at different conventions have defended slavery and slave owners by saying slave owners provided African slaves with food, clothes, and housing.