Only time will tell. We will long be dead when
the final tally is made.

Though I reside in the north, I wasn't born here.
My native state had a black majority its entire history up unil about 35 years before I was born in 1968. If you are really good with history you can figure out which state that is.

This is a very important consideration that few outside the South make. Consider what the results would be if you make two hypothetical towns of 100 people each that sit beside each other along a river. All 200 people are rabid football fans of either the Dallas Cowboys or the Wahsington Redskins. On the south bank the population is 50 Redskin fans and 50 Cowboy fans. On the north bank it's 90 Redskin fans and only 10 Cowboy fans. When the towns were first formed the rules agreed to were that each year the fans get to vote for either Joe Theisman or Troy Aikman as being the best player to ever take the field. Since the Redskin fans overall controlled the establishment of the towns by a total of 140 to 60, they were able to initially set rules that in order to vote in these elections, either town could institute poll taxes that had to be paid and tests on Redskins history to be passed. However the drawback to these arrangments for the Redskin fans would be the time, effort and money needed to enforce such bereaucratic arrangments would take away from the time they could spend at home watching tapes of former Super Bowl glories.

Now then, given these arrangments would there be any doubt as to the election results from each town?

Wouldn't you agree the South would vote for Joe Thesiman by a vote of 50 to 0, and the North would vote for Theisman 90 to 10?

Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to trivalize a serious matter or make a joke of past wrongs that were simply horrible. I'm just trying to put the white over black experience in America into its proper perspective. The media and Nothern white so called "intellectuals" never do. That then puts them in a bind to explain why my home state has a prison population that is 65% black but general population that is only 12% black; while my native state has a prison population that is the same 65% black but a general population that is 32% black; thus blacks are proportionally represented in this northern state's prisons at NEARLY 3 TIMES the rate of this deep southern state that has a history of slavery and Jim Crow!!!

40 years ago my native state and yours was trying to block civil rights and intergration. 100 years before that they were attempting to leave the Union with a constitution that would presumably sanction slavery indefinitely. But what of those who attack us? Should we really care what they think? Isn't it their society that kidnapped the blacks and sold them into slavery all over the Americas do begin with? Didn't they get rich off this? Didn't they continue their economic development with that capital by setting up factories to process those materials being supplied by slavery? Didn't they also use some of the captial to build ships and railroads to transport all these goods all over the country and the world, and to keep transporting even more slave grown materials back to their factories? And can it be said that ultimately their demand for these products, along with the small number of slave owners, is what kept the blacks enslaved all the way up to the first shots of the Civil War? And while their economy was expanding didn't they want to draw even more white settlers from Europe into this country and populate the West so they would have even more consumers and make even more money? And in order to do this didn't they need to launch a war of virtual genocide against the plains Indians? And also didn't they need to erect high tarrifs to get the South to pay for their railroad links to the West, among other things?

And finally now, 40 years after the end of the civil rights movement, and 140 years after the end of slavery, where are blacks better off?

When blacks finally gain equality in this country, which I think won't be for another 100 years, it will be so long after the issues of Jim Crow and slavery, that the North will have to look back at its past more objectively, because it will only be until then that it will crystal clear just how much the North and the South were always alike, and the only differences in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries were that one region always had higher concentrations of a despised minority, by design, and also by design the other region had higher concentrations of wealth.

When that time comes the grand children of the writers of these history books, intellectuals and media moguls who contsantly
belittle the South as being racists, backwards, and apart from the rest of the nation are going to have a lot of explaining to do as to why, in their region, it took so, so long for blacks to finally make it. Why their grand parents never talked about the slave trade, capital formation, rarely about the Indians, and how they (Northern White Americans) became since the dawn of the 20th century the richest group of humans that ever walked the face of the earth.

That is what I mean by only time will tell.