The thought of being “deemed unworthy” sends shudders down my spine (I need a sarcasm emoji). Your “points” are mere opinions and I must consider the cost/reward of spending time I’ll never get back in dealing with them.
Your strongest point is your opinion that the economy of the North was stronger than that of the South. Historians have argued about this for decades, pointing to the advantage of the North in railroads and industrialization. The South had free labor. You cannot win your argument by dismissing the value of slaves as a factor. My very point is they were the factor that made the South’s economy strong. Agreeing with me are the banks which issued loans using slaves as collateral. I’ll provide you a quote from an article you likely won’t read.
“In 1860, slaves were worth more than all the industrial and transportation capital in the United States. This is why war in the U.S. to end slavery was inevitable — in other countries where slavery ended peacefully, it was only a tiny fraction of their wealth. But for the South, slavery was their wealth.”
Some of your other points refer to the great things the government has done for black people. You give the government credit for freeing the slaves, somehow neglecting the fact they allowed for slavery in the first place, it’s in the Constitution although you have to read closely. Slavery gave us the Electoral College to ensure the lower populated slave states would have voting strength beyond their population to ensure slavery wouldn’t be voted out if they joined the Union. I’m researching a story on the Lincoln-Douglas debates. (Yes, I do research). Douglas tried to paint Lincoln as an abolitionist to which Lincoln responded by stating his firm belief in the inferiority of black people. The government (technically the people) turned their back on the recently freed slaves with the Compromise of 1877 which gave the country Jim Crow, saw the rise of the Klan, and the government turned it’s back, except the part that was infiltrated by the Klan of course. I’m aware of many good things that have taken place over the decades. I am also aware of a history that has totally escaped you (I won’t blame you because it’s not taught in schools, especially the new Texas school books that teach American Exceptionalism and regard slavery as a career choice). The America you want to believe you grew up in isn’t recognizable to those who have been oppressed by it. Not that many haven’t been able to overcome most everything thrown at them, none have been able to escape it entirely.
