Serious Inquiry: If it were up to present day conservatives, would slavery have ended with the Civil War?

Question

Seeing the obit for Jesse Helms brings this to mind. On one of his very last campaigns, he ran an ad, playign directly to southern racial hatred, fear and paranoia, which suggested that affirmative action was rooking whites out of jobs that were rightfully theirs. I know HE'D have been at peace with slavery still being in place, being a Lester Maddox/ George Wallace/ Strom Thurmond style conservative.

What about the typical anti-Obama conservative, young and alive today, 143 years after the definitive death of slavery in the United States? Have things really improved? And is slavery so far in the past that it no longer holds fresh moral horror for us? Why are so many people comfortable with racism right now?

Answer 1

Like obama's racist church views?

Obama is trying to look high and mighty but he went to that church for 20 YEARS.

Who is the racist?

Clearly Obama is.

Answer 2

I really thought you had a serious question. They are few and far between in here.

Then you state claim that helms is a racist because he was against quotas as affirmative action.

You need a serious education before you can ask a serious question.

As an answer. Slavery would have ended before the end of the civil war.

Oh, racism has reversed in America.

Answer 3

I don't think, with the constant change of technology and economically slavery would have existed today.  Machines can do what a human does twice as fast and doesn't need to sleep or eat.

Answer 4

we did it before and will likely do it again. bush has already freed more people than lincoln. both of these efforts by both of these  republican presidents were feircly opposed by the democrats.

Answer 5

liberals love the idea of everyone but their leaders being slaves....its what they want

Answer 6

Yes.. but in fact if it were up to Liberals everyone would be "slaves" today... that is to be dependent on government for all your needs and in return being told how to live to be "worthy" of that support.

Answer 7

My momma is voting for Obama!  Both my parents are horrible racists, so when I ask my mom why she's voting for Obama she says, at age 75,  "it shouldn't matter what color a person is"....   I said "WHAT?"  She says that now she is older and that you have to let people's actions do the talking, not their s*x, their age or their color....    I said you know they made that a law?   she said  "it's god's law, their are basic rights everyone should have and one of them should be the right not to be killed".    You go girl!!!   I love you mom.   then my dad tells me the joke about the man overboard you yell man overboard and if a woman falls over what do you yell?  "full steam ahead".....  he needs more work, maybe the next lifetime :-)