Pic Of The Moment: GOP's Favorite Accused Child Molester Talks About When The U.S. Was Last Great

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13. Thank you! Mothers were sold. Fathers were sold.

This is what Southerners call the "antebellum" (before THE war) period.

This is one of the memories I have of going to high school in the South. Memories of the glorification of the abomination of the slavery period they called the "antebellum" period, the time when white women wore fancy skirts, beautiful clothes and supposedly did no work (because African-American slaves did it all). That's the memory, the legend. The reality was, of course, most certainly quite different.

It was a cruel time, a time of whips and the slave trade. It was an abomination. For African-Americans, it was Hell.

We'd be better off if we had let Southerners fight it out amongst themselves. My Midwestern ancestors worked for their own bread and butter, made their clothes and moved when Native Americans asked them to.

Shame on Roy Moore and those Southerners that agree with him about "when America was great."

America was great when we united behind Roosevelt and bravely and nobly fought against the NAZIs and Fascism. We were not perfect, but we were a great nation.