So what they were slaves a 100 plus years ago.
We don't owe them anything....fact is they should be happy and proud to be here.
jOe, I don't see it that simply. Slavery was an evil institution, not just as viewed from our modern day sensibilities,but evil in itself. There are still repercussions of that institution borne by the black race today.
I perceive a vast sense of general guilt in the American people today. That guilt is made easier to bare by scapegoating it on to an object like the rebel flag and by extension upon the people of the South today and civil war monuments in general. We do not deserve it, but I think that is what is driving this rebel flag movement today.
No one in the South today has ever owned a slave, and no black man in America today has ever been a slave. No one anywhere in America that I am aware of would defend the institution today. No one anywhere owns slaves anymore with the possible exception of thug pimps or Arab sheikhs. Things were different 150 years ago...Geo
