https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#517324be3d78

Just within the top-25 I see Jensen Huang, Mukesh Ambani, Carlos Slim, Changpeng Zhao, Zhong Shanshan.

White people are over-represented in the list, but there's plenty of non-white billionaires that are just as problematic as their white counterparts. The vast, vast majority of white people are not billionaires. Racial division is a distraction that serves the billionaires.

By other white people who found that unacceptable.

There's no need to be racist and that wasn't what the civil war was about.

There was no threat of slavery being federally outlawed, Lincoln's entire inaugural address was about how slaves were property and no one was going to fuck with the institution of slavery.

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/1inaug.htm

The South wanted a "strong" federal government that could force Northern states to "deport" any Black people in the North to the South where they'd be made slaves.

And Lincoln wouldn't do that either. He felt the federal government had no say on slaverly.

So the South seceded, and when the federal government said they couldn't that was the official cause of the war. Whether or not states had the option to leave the union.

Repeating that the Civil war was about if slavery could be legal, is not only reductionist it's repeating century old propaganda spread by wealthy slave owners to make it sound better than reality.

Lincoln did t even start thinking about outlawing slavery until the war was starting to drag on, and that was solely as an economic sanction because wealthy Europeans had started buying up Southern plantations and those funds were being used to prolong the war.

By explicitly outlawing slavery, it cratered the speculative real estate market and those funds being cut off shortened the war.

Shits more complicated than what they told us in sixth grade.

Came here to say how refreshing it is to read an article about wealthy jerks that talks about reality rather than RACE OR GENDER.