Incident at an Antique Store

[Gene C]

(08-07-2014 11:02 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  It's the "elephant in the room", Toia. It happens every time this sensitive subject comes up. I'd bet my last dollar that not one person of Southern feeling on this forum feels that slavery was a good thing, but the current political atmosphere that demands apologies and endless weeping over an issue that ended years ago seems to prevail. We've become a nation of whiners - and that's just my personal opinion.

Well said Joe, plus (as Laurie, BettyO and others mention) we use our current political and social values to try and understand a problem that was a dominant issue over 150 years ago. I like BettyO's signature " The past is a foreign country...they do things differently there"