"fought a war to free the black man"? My God,I thought the posters here were a bit more educated. If that war would have been about freeing Blacks,it never would have started. Good grief.
Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison.
Comedian Chris Rock has stoked the flames of controversy with this Fourth of July tweet. The Hollywood comic wrote: "Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks." Rock's tweet sparked plenty of day-after fireworks. What he wrote went beyond the pale, responded many online, hurt and enraged at Rock's bitter humor.
Chris Rock's tweet was beyond the pale. It was doubtless his effort to capitalize on the 160th anniversary of that great Fifth of July speech delivered by black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Douglass addressed...
You've been reading too many Marxian revisionists, son. There were plenty of political causes for the Civil War, agitation over the Missouri Compromise and such, but the legality of slavery was very much a part of the political mix. Just because you're aware of the other issues does not make it appropriate to dismiss that one.