Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "New Textbook: Poor Southern Slave Owners' Sob Story" video.

What seems to get left out in a lot of slavery discussions is also how the majority of southerners voted. You get people arguing that is was only a tiny number of rich people that were slave owners, but they ignore that the majority of southern voters voted for pro slavery, anti abolitionist, politicians. They go on to ignore that that same majority of voters then voted for 100 years of Jim Crow laws, and against desegregation.
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@sergiosaunier It's pretty bad. Multiple Southern states still have Confederate Memorial Day holidays, also called Confederate Heroes Day by some of them. The fact that they don't see things like that as overtly racist means it's ingrained pretty deep.
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@Koyasi78 Andrew Jackson was from Tennessee. There are most definitely areas with higher levels of racism and lower levels of racism, no?
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@Koyasi78 Mississippi only got around to officially abolishing slavery a few years ago, ffs. They have a Confederate heritage month and a Confederate Memorial Day holiday. The majority would need to have racism ingrained pretty deeply to not be able to recognize those things as racist.
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@Koyasi78 By every definition it includes considering one race is superior to another, which the Confederacy enshrined into their constitution, and which multiple Southern states still memorialize and celebrate. The same belief that produced Jim Crow laws, that the majority in many Southern states voted for, and fought against having removed. Why do you want to nitpick over a definition?
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@Koyasi78 Uh huh. But you seem to be ignoring that the majority of northerners then elected anti-abolitionist politicians, and then elected pro civil rights politicians, etc. How were anti slavery and pro civil rights majorities equally as racist as pro slavery and anti civil rights majorities?
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@Koyasi78 Is not singling out a specific race for slavery and not singling out a specific race for discrimination or segregation, racism?
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