10-28-2009, 01:37 AM
Quote:Only if you wear blinders. The race riots in Detroit, for example, WERE NOT ABOUT SLAVERY.I'm pretty sure I disagree, but it doesn't even really matter in this case. Pete said that they were about reconstruction, which is obviously not the proximate cause either. My comment was entirely in response to that - if we're going to tie things to centuries-old historical phenomena, slavery seems more important than reconstruction.
-Jester