To own a person is wrong. I have a difficult time understanding the fact that some people believe it is right in the year 2015. Can you imagine being owned by another human being? Some will tell you the story about how good slaves really had it. These individuals believe that they need to dispel the myth that slaves were mistreated even though there are accounts in newspapers and letters and write-ups telling and detailing the mistreatment.
I was also warned last night that I should not believe the Yankee lies that are being told called the revisionist history about the civil war. Think conspiracy theories and you will get close to the person’s mindset. It’s awful how people think we are still living in the 1800s and the federal government is evil and it was only states’ rights that were being fought over… People have been sold a bill of goods and something stinks…
It gets worse. This person had ancestors who owned slaves. She was proud of it and said she would never apologize for it. Her pride was her gluttony and will lead to her downfall. How in the world do people function like this? This is why there is so much hatred for others. She wants to divide people and prove that they are inferior. She takes pride in all of this.
It is disgusting but this is the mindset of some of the people from the south. It isn’t my mindset. Clearly, slavery is wrong. I was taught that early on. As I grew, I learned of more atrocities and I also heard the stories of how well slaves were treated. Some were treated well but it doesn’t excuse the fact and it cannot make up for all of the people who were mistreated and killed, raped and taken advantage of…not to mention being sold and never seeing their family again. Saying something doesn’t make it true either. It doesn’t excuse the people in America for owning so many slaves. I know it was a sign of the times but still—it is not right!!! And, until we all learn this there will always be racism and prejudice. In other words, we will never be equal in everyone’s eyes until all people see others as equals.
Truth be told, many people who came to America were slaves and indentured servants. Some slaves were able to gain their freedom only to learn they were never truly free in the eyes of others. How awful! Can you imagine being treated in this way? I can. I have done research looking for slave descendants. It is very difficult and with most lines it is impossible. It isn’t fair and those people who take pride in their ancestors owning slaves—I wish they could see life from a slave’s perspective in the worst situations but they refuse to believe there was any mistreatment. They are close-minded. It makes me sick.
Now do you see why I fight for people to have equality? I will continue to do so and I will speak out against this type of oppression. It makes my heart hurt to know people look down on others and believe their race is superior. How dare they!!! Not one of us is better than another. No one!
Have a great day and plant seeds of goodness! 🙂
Garden2day 
I’m curious if your “friend” ever expressed the opinion that “N….rs are neat. Everyone should own one.” That’s an attitude that I heard several times while growing up.
One of the truly horrifying stories about “good slave owners” concerns J. Marion Sims, the so-called father of gynecology. He practiced surgery on his women slaves without anesthesia to understand what worked and what didn’t, because “they didn’t feel pain”. He used his results only for his more refined and genteel white patients who were more likely to feel pain. Maybe your friend would approve of such a progressive and enlightened use of slaves.
I still shudder just thinking about it.
She was on a message board so I didn’t talk to her long and wish in a way that I had not talked to her at all. I have heard that too with the attitude and never understood it except that some people believe they should be in control of other people–delusions of grandeur maybe???
I have run across quite a few of that mindset lately and it is sickening. It runs along the same lines of people who think they are the ones who are being persecuted in this country today so they need to make a lot of crazy, wacky laws that discriminate against others…yada, yada… 🙂
Now you are talking about the morons of society with that last one…lol. I can’t understand how people think others are less than them…I never understood and never will. People are people… Being different than someone doesn’t make them less. Sick..sick people. That woman probably would approve of such or say it never happened…people tend to believe whatever story they want to make their lives better.
Take care of yourself. Hope you are doing ok! 🙂