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Meet the Man Driving the Right’s Culture War Panic

Deconstructed

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The Resilience of Slavery

I think that the attitude that should be prioritized is one of resiliency. And yes, when you've oversimplified, it can be kind of a ridiculous Horatio Aldra story. It can minimize some of the historical inequities. But I think that that line was basically to say these people who suffered under unimaginable brutality and evil conditions were resilient. They had capacities, they had talents, and even though they were smothered and held back under the system of slavery, which was evil and wrong.

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