Originally Posted by: scarface84I didn't say you should be held responsible, when you said "why should we be blamed" i assumed you meant white people (who lived during that time), and that black people were responsible because they were the ones who sold them, i wasn't reffering to "you" as a person though, just a misunderstanding

And, as for "tehplatypussy", look, i didn't say everyone had relatives who owned slaves, i meant that owning slaves was common, that's it, and don't call me a jerk btw act your ****ing age. :mad:

if 84 is in reference to your age, then we're the same age...except you're acting like a 16 year old who just now picked up a copy of howard zinn's a people's history of the united states. oh yeah, i also censored myself instead of swearing.

anyways, owning slaves WASN'T common unless you were already wealthy. which was the point i was making. do you not have the common sense to even reason that owning slaves wasn't a common occurrance? that's like saying being a tax dodging millionare is a common occurrance...does it happen? yes. do a majority of people do it? no. i mean the way you speak about it, it's like as if everyone who lived in the south in the time of the civil war and pre-civil war slavery era were rich land owners who owned slaves.

you do know there were infact rich black land owners who owned slaves too, right? you also know that some slaves were treated more like share croppers than they were property.

excuse the turn of phrase but stop making things black and white when history is never that simplistic.

was slavery bad? yes. was every slave owner a bad person? some were , some werent; some actually treated their slaves as members of their own family and treated them as good as they could. did every white person in the country own slaves? no. was slavery just isolated to the south? no.

now can we get back to being civil about this instead of taking sophmoric cheap shots about acting one's age?