Quote:No, it's not hateful in that context. Hate is what the Nazis did to non-Aryans. slavery was just an economic condition. Blacks weren't the only race to suffer slavery in the history of humanity. Even Indentured Servitude wasn't hateful, just a means to an economic end. Hate is an overused term that's lost its meaning in modern discourse, the same as using liberal to describe Leftists.

The key question in my reply, and the one you didn't answer, is whether white people just instantly started hating black people the second the Civil War ended. How else does one explain the emergence of the KKK, racial segregation laws, lynchings, etc., if not for hate? And if hate is the reason, are you suggesting that white people were perfectly fine with black people as long as they were just horses and cows to them? Or was there maybe some deep-seated hatred present right along with that air of superiority, and once slavery was ended and the superiority was stripped, hatred was all that was left?

 

Quote:You keep forgetting the union held slaves a through the war as well.

No, I don't. I'm well aware that four Union states held slaves, and that Lincoln treated them with kid gloves to avoid losing them to the Confederacy (and the war along with them). Lincoln wasn't the great hero of the African race that history books would have you believe. He was a politician first and foremost, and he saw slavery as a topic that he could build a career around, so that's exactly what he did.

 

You may also note that I phrased my question with regards to "white people" hating black people. Not "southerners" hating black people. Some of the worst segregation in the country was found in the northeast, particularly Boston, but no one organized any major protests there because northern states were perceived by the NAACP as strong allies in the Civil Rights Movement. The South was a much easier target because those idiots made a big, loud deal of their segregation laws, and if you dared stand up to them, the fire chief would tell his white boys to break out the hoses and inadvertently put on a show for the new TV news medium to air nationwide. This isn't my first time discussing US history.

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