Why aren’t Ben and Jennifer being cancelled?

Jaylo ain’t white

I mean, Affleck is from Cambridge and Lopez is from New York. The whole antebellum plantation culture is in their DNA.

You can't take that away from them.

Jen fina pull a Whoopie Goldberg on Ben.

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Jaylo ain’t white

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Latinos owned 100x the slaves as white men did. Look at Brazil

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I mean, Affleck is from Cambridge and Lopez is from New York. The whole antebellum plantation culture is in their DNA.

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The irony is that folks and companies in both Massachusetts and New Yawk profited mightily from the Slave Trade and the subsequent labor of indentured persons.

But the cataclysm of the Civil War (with being on the winning side of that conflict) allowed them to spin the narrative.

History is written by the victors.

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Aren’t Ryan and Blake Democrats as well?

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This is really go to screw up everyone’s “Ben and Jaylo are getting special Democrat treatment” theory in this thread.

JLo has given more rides than a greyhound

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The irony is that folks and companies in both Massachusetts and New Yawk profited mightily from the Slave Trade and the subsequent labor of indentured persons. But the cataclysm of the Civil War (with being on the winning side of that conflict) allowed them to spin the narrative. History is written by the victors.

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Ummmm? Is there anyone that would seriously argue that, being literally integrated into the same overall national economy, that there wouldn’t be economic cooperation between Northern and Southern states?

I think it has always been widely accepted that, for instance, textile industries in the Northeast used cotton from the Southern states. I don’t know who has been hiding this information.

Where the Northern states have always gained the moral high ground in this debate was not having a single state with slavery above the Mason-Dixon Line post-1803.


Edit: And during the immediate post-war era up until the 1960s, the dominant victor narrative didn’t even focus on slavery at all. It’s was 90 percent a narrative of “The Loyal North against the Treasonous South” until the Civil Rights movement re-aligned historical the dominant narratives of the Civil War to the issue of slavery.

(Note: I’m not one of those people who say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery. Just that the alignment of a cohesive “Northern” perspective was primarily about the loyalty of the Union for much of the first 100 years after the war.)

There is a big difference from getting married at a beutiful estate and having a period wedding to pretend you are some sort of slave owner.

That doesn't need a plantation setting.