And they all got fat Christmas bonuses, too

Ninth graders at Cary Christian School in Cary, North Carolina are learning all about slavery. The booklet they are studying, Southern Slavery, As It Was, reveals that pre-war slaves lived "a life of plenty, of simple pleasures." The booklet, which provides a "biblical justification of slavery," is helping the kids feel better about their Southern heritage, I'm sure.

According to the school's principal, the booklet helps students see both the Northern and Southern sides of the slavery issue. If such a course of study helped explain the many complexities of the War Between the States--a war that was fought about slavery and also about economics; that would be a breath of fresh air. But the study of complex material is hardly what is going on.

The co-author of the booklet is none other than Steve Wilkins, a director of the League of the South, which is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He and Doug Wilson, another man of God, are known for putting together the theology of the neo-Confederate movement, which is clearly delusional.

Here is my favorite quotation from Southern Slavery, As It Was: "There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world."

Makes you want to be kidnapped from your country, traded, beaten, put in shackles, raped, and worked to death, doesn't it?