HuckFinn wrote:Thing is, it doesn't matter to most people. We have no time for stuff like this. I get it.
I don't know how to improve race relations, I'm freewheeling here, but if everyone just searched slavery, the atrocities committed, I think between us we'd come up with something that works across the board.
It's just mind boggling what we did....
And on a more serious note:
I honestly don't think it's "mind boggling" what "we" did.
It is atrocious in hindsight, and as a northerner it's easy for me to say that I'd never have owned another human being.
But we can't judge yesterday's actions by the morality of today.
In 200 years we may learn that it's inhumane to catch, kill and eat fish (for instance).
With this news, people around the world stop eating fish.
Then they start pointing fingers towards heathens like HuckFinn, who eats fish twice a week.
I know. Fish and slavery. Apples/oranges. blah blah.
But the point remains.
With or without that gay guy (Lincoln), America was going to rise above slavery because of our collective moral compass. But to judge those who lived in a different time?
That's counterproductive at best.