He had the power to do it at the beginning of the war. He waited 2 years.
There are many things that make it not a kindness. I already pointed out his views on Blacks which prove it wasnt a kindness.
1. He wanted to wait to he had a big victory, so that it would not look like a sign of weakness.
2. Freeing someone from slavery is still a kindness, even if you still consider them inferior. There is nothing in the definition of kindness that restricts it to acts done to people you consider an equal.
**** that. Slavery never should have be here. It Is not kindness to free people from a thing you should never have done.
But many of the people who helped in the effort to free slaves were not the same ones.. who enslaved them in the first place. So what about the white boys who lived in europe at the time who hopped on a ship, sailed over here to go to war, because they heard there was a war going on to free the slaves and that would be a worthy cause.
I'm sorry, you cant tell me "I" enslaved your people because I was born white. Are you guilt of a crime commited by your great grandfather? or do you get to be born into this world without guilt. We create our own guilt by our own actions.
Well what about the blacks who were murdered for trying to escape slavery for 200 plus years before that? I don't have to give whites credit for undoing a wrong they made happen. So that's a piss poor excuse. First off, things didn't end with slavery and you benefitted from much of the racism that went on in the 20th century and beyond until right now. So let's end this you can't blame me for my great grandfather's crimes bullshit. I can say whites enslaved my people because whites did so. The question asked in this thread happens to be
IS RACISM OVER YET, not slavery. Slavery was just one part of the racism blacks have faced here. The problem with this discussion is that you whites always want y s to see things your way but you don't want to begin looking at things the way we see it. Because the way we see it kills your overblown white egos. So I'm not going to do that. Why? Because I've spent much of my life trying to see it rom your side too but your asses keep doing the same shit. And since the definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting a different result,,let's try something different.
"The question asked in this thread happens to be
IS RACISM OVER YET, not slavery. Slavery was just one part of the racism blacks have faced here."
I was responding to a post about Slavery. I realize what your thread is about .
"The problem with this discussion is that you whites always want y s to see things your way but you don't want to begin looking at things the way we see it."
And you speak for all black people? all black people see things the way you do really? Do you realize many white people agree with your view point and many don't? I agree with you that racism still exists, but there are topics within topics. I can see Jim Crow existed... I can see black people have been discriminated against for no good reason, and I can act accordingly in my life and I can choose to support those things I feel help to right that but like everything else, it comes down to free choice that you yourself have. What I don't have to say is because I was born white , that means I'm guilty... thats what your friend here says. I also don't need to kiss your ass to prove I might agree with you on some things.