The Posterity of Plantation Bigots
Some of the ancestors of slave plantation bigots are always trying to find excuses for the brutal acts of slavery committed by their ancestors. This includes denying the fact that a great, great grandfather was a slave owner or even coming up with the notorious lie that Blacks were treated well by their slave master. Nothing about slavery was good! Other lies included saying that their slave master relatives let Blacks bury their deceased relatives on the plantation without saying the graveyard was segregated. Often, the ancestors of slave owners would refuse to talk about the subject of slavery and even make wild-eyed accusations that anyone bringing up the subject of slavery or white supremacy was somehow a racist.
In San Antonio, the racists often try to explain away slavery by saying the city never had plantations and that slavery here was “mild.” No slavery is mild! There is nothing mild about slavery. Slavery is an act of war that had to be fought by any means necessary.
Ill-informed people say that there were no protests against segregation and that racism ended when integration was accomplished “peacefully.” There were many protests and the colossal scheme was to integrate Blacks with Mexicans so that White people could keep their sundown towns in the surrounding area. There was nothing good about segregation, about old books for school children, about lies told about the hanging of Blacks or the slavery that went along with the Alamo defenders. Segregation gave Black people and others an inferior education, the worst food, police brutality, the ghettos, and other oppressive relations. The slave owners lost the Civil War, but kept up the hell with hangings, illegal arrests, and other forms of oppression. Plantations bigots passed on the hatred to their children, great grandchildren, and so on. This is evident as white supremacy is still a problem.
After the Civil War, the former slave owners waged a cruel war against Black people with Jim Crow law and violence. They spread their hatred that has a permanence designed to stick around this side of eternity. Whites were taught that they were superior and this idea manifests itself today with calls to “secure the border” and comments that Black Lives Matter protesters “should be tear gassed” as said by Donald Trump. Dark skin color became the focus point of bigots as they moved away from religious hatred after the First Amendment was enacted. Plantation bigots passed on the idea of limiting Black voting rights all the way up to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and even now are attempting to gerrymander legislative districts to prevent Black representation in the House and the Senate. These modern bigots, the heirs of the Confederacy, have a new leader to carry the hatred forward—Donald Trump.
Black people became the national scapegoat when the North and South were reunited after the Civil War. Whites were given peace with Jim Crow law after Union troops were withdrawn from the South. Juneteenth even brought into existence Black Codes, vagrancy laws, and passes needed to travel. Even Juneteenth was sabotaged by the plantation bigots. During slavery, they enjoyed sweet chicken dinners, formal violin balls, and julep teas while being fanned by slaves on a hot day. This hatred never left the minds of the ignorant and the ancestors of the ignorant. One bigot was quoted as saying that their slave owner ancestors were being disrespected because Confederate flags and statues were being taken down. All of this relates to the posterity of hatred they bigots passed down.
