I said I felt she had friends/groupies who do not add content or opinion but simply deride. Beside deride, they sing hymns of worship.
B/c of my profession, I read history books a lot. The leading scholar on Atlantic slavery is a very white, wasp, Yale professor. His main point is that slavery traditonally was never racial. There is no human alive whose ancestors were both slaves and slave owners. Slavery was ubiquitous. The evil of the Atlantic slave trade was that humanist reforms and the Enlightenment made slavery suspect. It was perceived to be wrong to hold humans as property. The plantaation system could not function without slave labor. Rather than adapt the system, Africans conspired with European slave dealers to capture other Africans and sell them. Europeans were never allowed to set foot on Africa.
The evil was the myth of Ham(?) that Africans were cursed by God and man must mete out the punishment. Literature developed that they were not fully human but more akin to wild animals. This was the key difference between the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Jesus' time.
As Obama reference his white family, they never had a slave. Abolitionists in England had difficulty getting citizens enthused. People viewed slavery as evil but most white English people were working in the first factories under conditions worse than slavery. Toddlers were employed. Go visit a coal mining town and compare it to the historic Upper East District in Manhattan. White people are not a monolith.
I made an observation of my feelings/perceptions. It was not racist. In truth, I believe there is a large class difference which perplexes me b/c when Shelby is not on religious issues concerning the exclusive truth of her whatever, Shelby reveals that she is educated and has extraordinary insight. It is Jekyll/HYde. Also, I will be the first to acknowledge that my behavior has not been blameless.
Now, besides the sin of reading books, I am declared a Klans member. The same Klan that spooked me for having black people in her family home when no one did.
.......................;-)...OUTLAW