Religious Racism
Submitted by Cat Daddy on September 12 2001 06:30:45
In reply to The bane of the American education system submitted by Forgiven on September 11 2001 03:01:37
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You mentioned that the churches in the South supported slavery. The modern interpretation of the slavery issue is that the South supported it and the North hated it. But that's not entirely accurate. Take these quotes for example: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor or qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races....I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." "Such separation if effected at all, must be effected by colonization:...what colonization most needs is a hearty will....Let us be brought to believe that it is morally right, and at the same time favorable to, or at least not against, our interests to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be." Who made these obviously racist statements? Why, it was none other than the Great Emancipator himself, Abe Lincoln! The first quote was in a debate in 1858 and the second was in one of the debates with Stephen Douglas. You won't find these quotes in any of the history books distributed in our schools today. And why is that? It's because the North won and to the victor goes the spoils, or at least the privelege of writing the history of the Civil War the way they want to. The Emancipation Proclamation was not made to free all slaves. Lincoln declared free those slaves who were held "within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States." In other words, he declared free those slaves over whom he had no control. And what about those slaves within states or portions thereof in which Lincoln had control and supposedly could have declared free? Not a word is said about those slaves. The interesting thing is that while Gen. Robert E. Lee did not own slaves, Gen. Ulysses Grant was a slave owner, at least his wife was. When asked about owning slaves, Grant responded, "Good help is so hard to come by these days." Further, only an estimated 6 to 10% of Southerners owned slaves. What were the other 90 to 94% fighting for? It seems that both Northerners and Southerners have things in their heritage that they would like to forget. But let's don't distort the truth to preserve a particular ideology. |
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