Gerald Horne interviewed by Wilmer Leon on Inside The Issues on June 18, 2022, discussing the real and complete history behind Juneteenth, Texas and the Coun...
Yeah I tend to agree with you, and the more I think about it the more it’s like “of course a bunch of dudes schooled in enlightenment philosophy and who owned slaves would have a vested interest in keeping slavery, and of course they would couch the reasoning in enlightenment philosophy.
If you look at the reviewers own claim that the NYT is pushing this theory to “divide workers along racial lines” where is their evidence? Surely they have some statement by the NYT staff saying “we want to divide workers along racial lines” lol.
Yeah I tend to agree with you, and the more I think about it the more it’s like “of course a bunch of dudes schooled in enlightenment philosophy and who owned slaves would have a vested interest in keeping slavery, and of course they would couch the reasoning in enlightenment philosophy.
If you look at the reviewers own claim that the NYT is pushing this theory to “divide workers along racial lines” where is their evidence? Surely they have some statement by the NYT staff saying “we want to divide workers along racial lines” lol.