The Negro Problem

I can vividly remember having debates in middle school and high school history classes about slavery in the Old South. A number of my classmates back then had been led to believe (by guess who?) that the colored folks were actually quite content as slaves, and were well cared and provided for. And this was back in the much-more-liberal '60s and '70s! I guess this only proves that there has always been---and still is now---a virulent cultural strain of white Americans who innately view African-Americans as savages who can't be trusted to exercise their own free will in a liberal democracy, hence the need for plantations or prisons. It's always made no sense since besides being viciously racist, the savages didn't exactly come to America of their own accord, now, did they.

---Baron V