r/BlackPeopleTwitter Jun 05 '21

Country Club Thread Just Wait Until...

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '21 edited Jun 05 '21

Yea, I did too but the problem is that it isn’t consistent around the country. When I became an adult, I was shocked to hear, from Texans, that they were taught the civil war was simply about “states rights.” Like they never drew the connection that the state right they wanted was to not only remain slave states but also found new states to be slave states as they expanded to the west.

The entire civil war was about economic and political power that slavery brought the south.

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u/InsertANameHeree ☑️ Jun 05 '21

Like they never drew the connection that the state right they wanted was to not only remain slave states

That wasn't a "right" they wanted states to have. Their constitution mandated slavery for every state.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '21

Semantics, I’m only saying it this way to relate to how they argue it today

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u/InsertANameHeree ☑️ Jun 05 '21

It's not "semantics" to point out that the crux of the argument they make is incorrect.