Long ago I lived in North Carolina, and I remember seeing this on the back of a Confederate Monument. I thought it was in Plymouth NC, so maybe there are two of them. Or maybe more. maybe back in 1902 some salesman was making the rounds in North Carolina convincing the locals that this was just what they needed on their statue idolizing ‘The Lost Cause’. This one is apparently in Tyrrell County outside the courthouse. I don’t remember ever being there, but it’s possible. It’s now the subject of a lawsuit seeking its removal. See the article here: www.msn.com/…
Anyway, point is, I looked at this-wherever it was-and thought, “Wow. They REALLY just didn’t get it did they? Nothing says cluelessness like assuming that the people you’re holding as slaves, subject to your merest whim, are happy about it. “Why Ah remembuh when the news came that they was free, ol’ Rassus why he jest laid down an wept he wuz so upset at the thought of not bein’ mah slave anymoah.”
Please excuse my bad attempt at a 1902 North Carolina hick’s accent.
The really sad thing is there are undoubtedly still people-probably a lot of them-in the South WHO STILL THINK THIS IS TRUE. Along with the whole “Oh them niggers, why they’z lazy as they day they wuz born.” concept. Yeah, Mr Confederate/Confederate apologist, let’s enslave you, sell off your family and put you to work in the cotton/rice fields under a blazing sun for NO pay and crap living conditions, and see how hard YOU work. There’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln that I can’t locate at the moment, but the gist of it is that when he heard someone extolling the virtues of slavery he felt a strong desire to see it practiced on that person. To which I say ‘Amen.’ Let’s get all those complacent southern (and the northern ones too) white people who think that a slave’s life was all biscuits and gravy, enslave them for a week and see how they like it.
I wish the good folk of Tyrrell County all the best in their lawsuit to remove said statue and the MORONIC statement on the back.
FUCK THE CONFEDERACY. FUCK IT SIDEWAYS WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER.