Apparently Jsojourner's brother-in-law was asleep during any form of instruction regarding black history in the united states. Either that or he's someone pining for the antebellum days when slaves worked on the land and knew their place.
The latter. He actually taught history for awhile. He believes slavery was a God-ordained institution under which slaves were well-treated, better off and Christianized.
He's a big fan of the Bob Jones University history curriculum for Christian schools and home schoolers. His favorite book on American history is Peter Marshall's horrendously bad,
The Light and the Glory.
This is why I tell people here, and elsewhere, these religious right fanatics are not confined to a single Baptist church in Witchita, Kansas with a pastor named Phelps.
Hell, until I was about 21...I was pretty much one of them. Most of my family still is. Americans like these are not rarities by any stretch. They may be less common or visible in some places, like both coasts. But in the midwest and south, they are ubiquitous.
