also on thE Topic of jasper STEPH IS A PUNK ASS BITCH FOR JUST DROPPING THAT
“oh yeah jasper was a member of the texan confederacy at the age of 14.”
AND NOT GOING INTO DETAIL.
LIKE BITCH HE’S FROM HUSTON YOU SAID THAT!! IT HAD A FREETOWN. AS IN FREE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH.
ITS ALSO A LITERAL CITY.
YOU HAD AN EASY OUT AND YOU’RE TOO RACIST TO TAKE IT?
THE CONFEDERACY HAD A FUCKING LAW THAT SAID IF YOU OWNED TWENTY PEOPLE YOU WERE EXEMPT FROM CONSCRIPTION. IF YOUR ASS LIVED IN A CITY OR I DONT KNOW WERENT A FUCKING JACKASS BECAUSE YOU LIVED CLOSE ENOUGH TO FREE BLACK PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT THEY”RE PEOPLE YOU PROBABLY WOULDN’T OWN TWENTY.
YOU LITERALLY COULD hAVE JUST COPIED MULAN. LITERALLY.
“My father was conscripted but his health was too poor so I pretended to be him. When my captain suspected my real age they put me on the southern border in the hopes I’d stay away from the fighting.”
THERE. BOOM. ALL THE GONE WITH THE WIND STYLE BS AND YOU’VE SCRUBBED AWAY A DAMN GOOD PORTION OF THAT RACISM. ALSO WHEN HE MET ALICE IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY HE WALKED INTO A DINER IN THE 60S? IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HARD FOR HIM TO NOTICE A SIGN AND BE DISAPPOINTED THAT A HUNDRED YEARS AND A WAR LATER PEOPLE ARE BEING TREATED AS LESS THAN HUMAN BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN.
FUCKIN SHOULD HAVE HAD A SCENE IN CLASS WHERE HE’S ASKED WHO HIS FAVORITE HISTORICAL FIGURE IS AND HE CITES SOMEONE LIKE MALINDA BLALOCK, GALVANIZED YANKEES, OR REALLY ANYONE WHO STARTED THE WAR ON THE SIDE OF THE SOUTH AND FINISHED IT ON THE SIDE OF THE UNION. YOU KNOW, THE THING HE WAS TOO YOUNG AND MAYBE TOO AFRAID AND DEFINITELY DEAD TO DO.
MAYBE ITS JUST BECAUSE IM AN ANGRY LITTLE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN LINCOLNITE WHO HAS MANAGED TO AVOID THE POST-RECONSTRUCTION ERA BRAINWASHING INTENDED TO MAKE ME CONTROLLABLE BUT GODDAMN IT REALLY WASN’T AS CUT AND DRY AS YOU THINK STEPH. NOT EVERYONE BELOW THE MASON DIXON LINE WAS COOL WITH SLAVERY. NORTH CAROLINA DIDN’T EVEN GET TO VOTE FOR SUCCESSION BECAUSE IT WOULDN’T PASS.
YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK IF YOU DECIDE TO WIKI IT FOR AN AFTERNOON.