Originally Posted by cmac2012

Sorry, no. What, 150 to 200 years of slavery, decades of Jim Crow? And several years of war, awful as it was, balances the scales? And the war was a quarrel between whites for the most part. If the war is construed to be primarily about slavery, and plenty argue otherwise, it was white people fighting about an institution that white people created.

It was a step in the right direction but it was only a step.