Republican lawmaker: Owning slaves doesn’t make you a racist
 

Why are Trump supporters so stupid?

“Slavery later on in the American South was not about the color of the skin of the slaves but their value as workers on the plantations,”

Republican lawmaker: Owning slaves doesn’t make you a racist

A New Hampshire state lawmaker came under fire this week after he argued that owning black people as slaves does not make someone racist.

USA Today reports that Republican state Rep. Werner Horn recently responded to a Facebook post from a former state House member named Dan Hynes, who argued that President Donald Trump couldn’t possibly be the most racist president ever because he never owned slaves.

Horn replied to the post by writing, “Wait, owning slaves doesn’t make you racist… owning slaves wasn’t a decision predicated on race but on economics. It’s a business decision.”

In followup interviews, Horn confirmed that he does not believe owning slaves makes someone a racist.

“Slavery later on in the American South was not about the color of the skin of the slaves but their value as workers on the plantations,” Horn told the New Hampshire Union Leader. “The U.S. had abolitionists since the start, people who felt slavery wasn’t moral but they weren’t enslaving black people because they were black. They were bringing in these folks because they were available.”

In Pakistan people have other Pakistanis as their slaves, does that make the slave owners racist against Pakistanis?

“The U.S. had abolitionists since the start, people who felt slavery wasn’t moral but they weren’t enslaving black people because they were black. They were bringing in these folks because they were available.”

Why are Trump supporters so stupid?

Actually, he's right. Owing black slaves back then didn't make the owner racist... just evil and lazy.

But it is racist to say what he said in the present time, given the historical perspective we have on the whole black history in America thing.

I've never seen photos of white slaves in shackles.

If black slaves were the only slaves then that's racist, even back then. There were also Chinese slaves back then called coolies.

There were laws about what whites could allow their slaves to do and if those laws were broken the slave owner was punished. Even if you were not racist you were forced to be by law :2 cents: Or am I missing something? It's quite possible I am I'm really hungover lol

What's funny is how this shit still comes up today.

Like there's still so much talk about slavery because it's a crutch and an excuse for bad black behavior.

4% of Americans (young black males) commit 52% of our violent crimes...because, ..well, slavery.

Here's another fun fact: blacks in America have the same identical homicide rate as they do in Botswana...but but but muh slavery.

The Republican lawmaker was making an excuse for his racism, like you do.

You need to save your money and move out of that shithole Boston :2 cents:

Where the black slave owners racist?

What makes Boston a shithole? It's a diverse city run by democrats. Do you hate POC and dems? Is that why you live in very white and very republican Orange County?

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Do you mean the free black people that legally owned white indentured servants in Virginia?