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These people seem so mindmumbingly stupid. The racism I can at some level understand - xenophobia and hate doesn't really need any motivation. But to imagine t
by geon 11y ago
These people seem so mindmumbingly stupid. The racism I can at some level understand - xenophobia and hate doesn't really need any motivation.
But to imagine the life in slavery as something positive. Like being taken cared of, by a wellmeaning father figure. - That's just plain stupidity and self delusion.
I am surprised that the author never mentioned sexual abuse, though. Perhaps she (?) was uncomfortable talking/writing about it, or it was not well documented in this household. I imagine that would have carried the point across wuite effectively. Getting raped every day is hardly something you would call a comfortable life, with a benign mater.
- Vexs 11y agoIt's an interesting sentiment really- you see the same thing in pro-slavery sentiments during the 1800s- "oh, the Irish immigrants in Britain have it so much worse, look at these slaves, they don't live in cold tenements! They have it so good!" To my mind it's a failure of the education system trying to make things easier for students to understand or something. Middle/kindergarten schools do some really quite perverse stuff, like "slavery days" where the white kids are "slaves" to the black kids, or other weird stuff. I don't know if I agree with the whole idea that it's guilt or something, I think it's more to do with people wanting to believe in a good, not a bad. History is harsh!