"The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is."

[k8conant]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article136803208.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Hey - Frank (the author) is a friend of mine.

[logosoco]

2. This writer puts it in a very good modern day perspective.

I tried to explain this to a former neighbor who had a Confederate flag up and asked me what i thought of it. He asked me if I was offended by it, and I said well, it shows how so many people in this country today are still under that spell of the 1%.

He did take the flag down about a week later. (but that could have been after I put up a tie dyed flag with a peace sign on it to show him MY flag!)

[JI7]

3. at this point it's a choice. they prefer wealthy whites to POC

even if the whites rip them off.

and trump is the biggest example of it.

they feel closer and more connected to the wealthy whites than POC .

[moondust]

4. Interesting.

Good read. I'd be interested in any theories the author may have on what happened to all the wealth made off slavery. No doubt some of the slaveholders eventually saw the writing on the wall and squirreled away or escaped with their fortunes. Was it passed down through generations of heirs? Is it invested in the stock market today?

[Hoyt]

5. The southern whites who were too poor to own slaves, could have stopped it.

They benefited from slavery too. As Randi Rhodes so aptly put it -- two white dirt farmers were talking about whether they should join the confederate army. One of them said, "We better win,old Mr. Beauregard ain't gonna pick his own cotton. "