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| Topic | Were the American Founding Fathers cowards when it came to slavery? |
| FortuneCookie 07/19/20 11:19:53 AM #30: | Some of the modern progressives remind me of the crazed officer from the film Paths of Glory. He accuses his men of cowardice for allowing themselves to remain pinned down under relentless fire from the enemy. When told that the situation was impossible, he remarks that the only proof of that could be the foxholes filled with the bodies of the dead. Go out and get yourself killed in an impossible situation to prove you're not a coward. If Benjamin Franklin had ended up with a rope around his neck, he'd have been a figure of infamy in slave states. It would've have done nothing to bring an end to the institution of slavery. Slavers were willing to go back to being a colony of England rather than letting the slaves go free. That's a mighty tall order to say, "Go out and die for what is right. You'll be remembered favorably centuries after you're gone." --- 2020 going to be a CE kind of year ~ Panthera ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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