...Slavery was wrong and will forever be wrong. Enslaving your fellow man is against those "Inalienable Rights". Those Rights don't just apply to certain people. They apply to all people.
Do you even read, Bro?
Preamble COTUS
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
No slaves and no one of African descent signed COTUS. The founders wrote the COTUS for their benefit and their posterity, not for some obsolete farm equipment or even poor escaped white bondsmen making their way in the wilderness (see whisky rebellion). And we have learned that applying COTUS to anyone not of the same ancestry of the founders has been a grand failure.
Slavery
5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.
God, the arbiter of morality, understands slavery is one of the natural conditions/stations of men. So much so that He elicidates rules on how they are to be treated and how they are to act. In addition, the patriarchs held slaves and were not counted immoral because of it.
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One would hope that you people that are so passionate about States Rights and The Constitution would at least apply that thinking to current events. You apparently have no problems for State AG's and Governors usurping election law from their Legislatures in the last election in order to steal it. So far there has been no wailing and gnashing of teeth about Pence and McConnell allowing Biden to be confirmed illegally but you sure can find ways to defame the only president in history that had the fortitude to address our greatest national disgrace.
If we has the COTUS applied as it was written, other state AGs would not be a problem. Other states could secede and be done with them and their putrescent system.
And speak for yourself, I have written plenty against Pence & McConnell and their cowardice.
Lincoln is our greatest national disgrace. He traded a relatively decent yeoman middle class republic for a mess of imperial pottage that rules for the benefit of the rich and dishonest and has evolved into a plutocratic oligarchic golbalist homosexualist empire.
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The war was prosecuted whether we like it or not and the issue has been decided. Reliving old grievances only creates turmoil again. Instead of opining about what we think should or might have taken place and dead people's motives we would do well to just take a hard look at History. What did happen. We know what happened at Gettysburg but trying to get into the heads of the participants is a mistake. Let our honored dead rest in peace. Embrace each other as fellow Americans instead of territorial enemies.
Your civic nationalism has been tried and is a failure. Because it is completely at odds with human nature and has been foisted on us by hateful outsiders. Or have you been in a coma for some years?
One of Trump's greatest achievements in office was to bring people of all colors and nationalities together. He did more for black Americans than any other president since Lincoln.
You cite this as a good thing. I see it as a betrayal of white Americans who have their own collective interests. Trump was so busy smoking the snipped sausage and pouring silver, gold, and Platinum (Plan) over blacks that he forgot that the majority of Americans may be tired of subsidizing the livelihood of predatory and/or feral minorities.
