The past cannot be judged by the standards of the present.
If I were to tell you that Napoleon was a bad general becouse he did not use tanks and gunships at Waterloo, you would think me a fool. Yet pols judge the USA of 1789 by the rules of 2015 and call us a "racist" country!!! In the world of 1789, you were born into your social class and only those in the Aristocratic class had "rights" anyone else dam well ,touched their forelock bowed did what they were told...or else. in our Constitution, we took a step forward and said that a man was NOT limited by his birth. Later in 1866, at the cost of 600,000 dead and a 1000000 wounded out of a population of 20,000,000, and half the nation in smoking ruins, we took another step forward and ended slavery, in 1920 yet another step and women gained the right to vote, in the 1960's the process of integrating the nation began , we started to look at character not color. Are we PERFECT? No and humans NEVER will be; but we are a LOT closer to the ideal that " all men and women were created and are politically equal.I have yet to see long lines of the "oppressed" fleeing the USA!
If I were to tell you that Napoleon was a bad general becouse he did not use tanks and gunships at Waterloo, you would think me a fool. Yet pols judge the USA of 1789 by the rules of 2015 and call us a "racist" country!!! In the world of 1789, you were born into your social class and only those in the Aristocratic class had "rights" anyone else dam well ,touched their forelock bowed did what they were told...or else. in our Constitution, we took a step forward and said that a man was NOT limited by his birth. Later in 1866, at the cost of 600,000 dead and a 1000000 wounded out of a population of 20,000,000, and half the nation in smoking ruins, we took another step forward and ended slavery, in 1920 yet another step and women gained the right to vote, in the 1960's the process of integrating the nation began , we started to look at character not color. Are we PERFECT? No and humans NEVER will be; but we are a LOT closer to the ideal that " all men and women were created and are politically equal.I have yet to see long lines of the "oppressed" fleeing the USA!
Judge people solely by THEIR actions.
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