In the case you weren't convinced that O'Reilly was racist...

You know what I despise? People who try to twist Slavery or the Civil War into this pragmatic occurrence necessary for the economic development of the USA. Nah homey, slavery was fucked up. And no the Civil War was not about the economy, it was about how the people in the south didn't want to be forced to do without slave labor which yes affected the economy but that was the result of the Civil War not the cause - had there not been slavery, there would have been no Civil War.

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