(07-17-2023 10:34 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  [

I think the 'go back to Africa' comment is certainly something that a racist POS would say, but a reasonable person could also say something that gets couched as if it were 'that way'.... but it really means something vastly different.

Two people can say 'bless your heart' and mean it in very different ways.

Well, bless your little pea-picking heart...

People forget (or ignore) that Abraham Lincoln, in the 1850's, explored the idea of returning freed slaves to Africa.

Also, Liberia

"Liberia began in the early 19th century as a project of the American Colonization Society (ACS), which believed black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States.[7] Between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born African Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia."

So maybe not everybody who ever said to send them back was a POS.

Although probably everybody who says it today is.