# Will There Be Riots In The Streets & On the Campuses

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 29, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-riots-in-the-streets-on-the-campuses/470055 "2008-10-29T05:07:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-riots-in-the-streets-on-the-campuses/470055/61 "2008-10-30T17:11:54Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> And what about the [Cincinnati riots of 2001](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Cincinnati_Riots)? I’m not sure why **BrainGlutton** excluded those, or if he just missed them.

I missed them; don’t recall hearing about them even at the time.

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-riots-in-the-streets-on-the-campuses/470055/62 "2008-10-31T13:26:46Z")

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> [@Tristan](#):
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> No. They weren’t making excuses at all. They honestly believed that. It was taught to them from the youngest age. It was prevalent in the society they lived in. For those times, in those circumstances, it was “correct”.
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> We “know” that it is wrong today, but I guarantee that if you had lived then, you would have felt the exact same way.

Sorry, but no, not even close. Maybe all you know about the topic is maybe what you picked up in grade school or something (probably with some deficient textbook for how wrong you are about it), but at the time in question the vast majority of the world knew that slavery was wrong and immoral. If you “guarantee” that anyone living back then would have supported slavery then how do you explain all the people who didn’t: the North, the Underground Railroad, the abolitionists and all the other countries in the world at the time? The _only_ people who supported slavery were a few influential people in the Deep South, based upon ugly religious beliefs (the ignorant masses) and economics (wealthy landowners who didn’t want to have to hire workers and could just buy them outright). And the issue was important enough that the country split in two over it and caused a massive (maybe you heard of it?) civil war.

So much for your “guarantee.”

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