Republican Lawmaker Ray Garofalo Says Louisiana Schools Should Teach the "Good" of Slavery.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by tewest86

There was nothing good for AA. However, look at the money it made some people by having free labor.

Now I'm depressed. 19th-century version of "It created value for the stockholders!".

[DrPibbs]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

What was good about slavery, exactly?

I get that the guy was using the phrase as an umbrella term. But words matter.

If we are to mince words, "Everything dealing with slavery" is not " Slavery".

For example, "Everything dealing with slavery" includes the Civil War. But some poster will come along and say "What was good about war?"

[VA Yankee]

Western civilizations in general believe that their introductions of religion, how to live, slavery or annihilation (where applicable) to what was deemed primitive cultures was a benefit. On the other hand I can't count how many cultures were lost completely, enslaved or just molded into second class citizens for generations to come all in the name of western enlightenment...

[It'sAutomatic]

Originally Posted by tewest86

There was nothing good for AA. However, look at the money it made some people by having free labor. I'm a black man. I'm trying to look at it from the eyes of a potential slave owner.

Yeah people were treated like livestock back then. It was wrong then and it was wrong now. There's a logical reason to own them, but not a good one.


It's SO easy to wipe your hands clean from slavery. All the right has to say is "it was evil, thankfully we're in a different millennium now." But if I say this country was founded on the wicked principle of owning human beings, I'll get a bunch of people instinctively on the defense because they consider themselves the same people as the slave owners and thus I'm attacking THEM.