Ardainian Right on Nostr: Note that most Americans during the era of slavery, including many who knew and ...

Note that most Americans during the era of slavery, including many who knew and personally liked plenty of blacks, concluded they were too different from whites for them to function as equals within the same republic, and, in the absence of a feasible alternative solution, defaulted to wanting their side to be in control so as to protect themselves and their loved ones from the dire consequences of the alternative. We're not allowed to acknowledge that our forebears were not stupid or malicious, but were simply ordinary people who wanted to preserve a homeland for themselves and their posterity, and their cause was about as just as any other in a harsh and cruel world.

The American race was forged from the leftovers of Europe, a people born into a world that had no room for them, and who had to brave hostile seas and wild frontiers to carve out a place for themselves, and through their toil they succeeded beyond what anyone could've imagined. They are a distinct people forged through this crucible, and they owe the rest of the world nothing for their triumphs.