I grew up in the south, lived in the north for about 3 years, and am now married to a northern woman. Now, my family didn't have slaves, too poor. HOWEVER, they rememeber and passed down all the NORTHERN reconstruction attrocities. The south was raped and raided. Blacks tried to follow Sherman and his march across Georgia. He cut them off and didn't want them following him. So, they ended up more poor than under slavery. In all slave states TOTAL, only 10% owned slaves. In Mississippi it was about 50%, in the border states it was far less. Of that 10%, actually only 10% were cruel to their slaves. Most slaves were contented and happy to be taken care of. If all were so mistreated, then why didn't they through their anger, overtake and kill all the slaveowners? They didn't. They relied on their former owners for sharecropping and a place to live. Farming was all they knew. Most even adapted their former owners last names. It was extremists in the north who pushed for war, and extremists in the south gave it to them. Before the Civil War most were loyal to their state before the Union and followed their state into war.
Today, with the advent of the Welfare Society, blacks are taught to hate whites and that they owed them. This was NOT true in the begining of the Civil Rights movement. I lived through it. My wife sees what the Welfare mentality has caused the poor blacks to become. They are still dependent, and now they live on the Welfare plantation. They really have no freedom. High drop out rates, high crime rates in their neighborhoods, gang members running things, rolling stone fathers. Until THEY take control of their own lives, only then will they ever be able to pull themselves up. They have to stay in school. They have to give up drugs, prostitution, having babies for money. They have to get the skills needed to enter the middle class. Whites have given over $4 trillion to welfare, and it is worse than ever. It is high time blacks got out of poverty themselves through education, trade skills, etc, and learned to work hard, take care of what they have, and pull themselves up. We aren't stopping them, they are stopping themselves.
75% of murders in America are in 4 cities, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. 90% of that is black on black crime. Hmmmm. No ammout of gun control will stop this violence, only their own selves. We have seen this in the south for years. It is time for northerners to see what we see. We whites are NOT the problem. We have given till it hurts. Time they took control of their lives and improved them, instead of tearing down what was given to them. If you don't work for it, it doesn't mean as much to you if it is free.
