Limbaugh: "If Any Race Of People Should Not Have Guilt About Slavery, It's Caucasians"
http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/07/22/limbaugh-if-any-race-of-people-should-not-have/194999Really???
First he points out that other "races" also had slaves in history, which is true and if he had simply stuck to that to point out that USA and caucasians aren't the only ones whose ancestors have done questionable things in the past I would have agreed with him. Even though I hate dividing people according to race. Shouldn't we be talking about cultures or nations? I mean it's not like we can lump all asians together and claim that the japanese should be ashamed of what the Khmer Rouge did... But that's another peeve of mine.
But then says this:
But despite all that, no other race has ever fought a war for the purpose of ending slavery, which we did. Nearly 600,000 people killed in the Civil War. It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race, and within the bounds of the Constitution to boot.
Really? Do you know how the slavery ended on the rest of the planet? People either realised that it is a horrible thing to do and stopped doing it out of shame or simply realised that everyone else thinks slavery is horrible and therefore stopped doing it because they don't want to be thought of as horrible excuses for a human being. (Well there still is slavery in some places but the current concensus is that slavery is wrong evil.)
Then there was this one country where there was a war to keep slavery legal. Because that is what happened. When most of them decided to outlaw slavery a conciderable part of USA seceded simply because they wanted to keep on having slaves and were willing to go to war to defend that right. They had a war FOR slavery. The whole "War of northern aggression" or whatever you wish to call it would not have happened unless people hadn't specifically been willing to fight to DEFEND slavery.
And at some point I'm going to have to go off on a rant about lumping all "caucasians" or "asians" or "africans" (preferably "african-americans" even if they live in England or some other place) together into one group disregarging the separate nationalities and cultures just because of their skin colour.