Rising again

[avram]

Students in a North Carolina Christian school are being given a book, Southern Slavery, As It Was that teaches that Southern slavery wasn’t so bad. One of the book’s authors is a member of the board of directors of a neo-Confederate group, the League of the South. Some excerpts from the book:

• “Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.”
• “There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.”
• “Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.”

Do I detect a hint of a Bush administration health care plan?