White House Says Slavery Is Being Taught Wrong, Should Not Be So Negative

jleyank

There's been a lot of "progress". They used to be chattel property. Then they were merely abused. Then, post-WW II, they were lynched from time to time. Now, they're only denied the right to vote and to participate fully in political and economic society. I guess having to share one's benefits seems like oppression?

blamestross

I just want it to be more commonly understood that enslavement is perfectly legal and enshrined in the 13th amendment. We have a million, mostly black, perfectly legal slaves in the US right now.

quantified

A positive spin would be "hey, we went to war about it and got rid of it" (mostly, except for prisoners, and we can discuss what counts as punishment/penance separately). But that sort of runs aground on how clear the record is about what the Confederacy was for, and therefore what all the current pride in it says.