Comments on: Larry Wilmore Gets the Last Word

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:23:31 +0000

Yeah, that’s what I figure too. And they’d still be saying that it’s their heritage, not economic exploitation of the most vile kind.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:32:22 +0000

@MM: Indefinitely, as long as the non-slave states had tolerated it. Slavery was the engine of the Southern economy. And even after after slavery was outlawed, the slaves’ descendants spent 100 years under a sharecropping/Jim Crow system that was fairly similar to slave labor.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:42:12 +0000

I started wondering what would have happened if there had been no war. How long would the South have held on to slavery if it hadn’t been forced to give it up?

By: baraqiel

baraqiel — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:19:04 +0000

I hate to pull the Godwin here, but I really, really wonder what some of these people would say if some German told them that they were celebrating the Third Reich as a part of their “heritage”. My guess is that it would be some variation on a bullshit answer of “that’s completely different for the following utterly spurious reason”.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:17:09 +0000

@MM: Heh. Wait 5 years and I’ll send you an invitation to my festive “Surrender at Appomattox” ball.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:17:08 +0000

It’s going to be a long, long year.

By: Tweets that mention Larry Wilmore Gets the Last Word - The Pursuit of Harpyness -- Topsy.com

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:50:15 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mihai Lucaciu, Pursuit of Harpyness. Pursuit of Harpyness said: Larry Wilmore Gets the Last Word http://bit.ly/fIRTTV [...]