the African Americans as a group, too easily compromised their gains to southern politicians who did not have their best interest at heart.
After being under slavery for so long, to say that the African Americans compromised their gains confuses me. I feel like they didn't had many choices and they took whatever they could as long as they weren't enslave any longer.
Nast’s reminder of the Irish-born instigator who shouted the loudest, and most effectively, that “The Chinese Must Go.”
This line makes me think about the irony in their thinking. An Irish-born shouting the loudest, since the Irish are also immigrants. Why wouldn't immigrants support other immigrants. It reminds me of the saying "Better them than us" .
Nast, therefore, draws the African American kicking back, one leg resting over a knee; head tipped down, with a carefree grin on his face, content to allow the politicians to oppress other minorities.
I don't agree with the reasoning of why Nast thinks that the Black men is allowing politicians to oppress other minorities. We can not say that they are allowing this to happen, I mean they have been fighting towards the abolition of slavery for so long and they have been oppress cor hundreds of years, so to say that they allowed politicians to oppress other minorities feels like they are to be blame when in reality, the politicians are the ones that are looking for minorities to oppress. However, as usual, we look for people to blame for our mistakes.
It is, indeed, in conformity with the Creator
In this case he is using religion to justify slavery. This has been seen over and over again. People would use religion to justify any wrong doing. One example that come to mind is the right to marry whom ever you love. People reject that now a days because they claim that their "religion" or their "God" does not approve of this. When in reality, I believe that this is the way they chose to express themselves and by using religion they think "it's okay" since they are "following the rules".
They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.
I feel that the people that believed that slavery was the natural thing to do had the wrong idea of "superior race". If you think about this for a second. If white is a "superior race, then why is that skin color more sensitive to the sun, I mean color pigments on your skin would give you extra protection from the sun. I believe this is better or "superior" in a way. Second, slaves were working day in and day out on the worst conditions possibly imaginable, yet they still had energy to celebrate at night without the owners finding out. I don't know about you, this would show great levels of stamina which would translate to being superior. That is just my humble opinion.
Those at the North who still cling to these errors with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind; from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity. One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is, forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics: their conclusions are right if their premises are. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights, with the white man
I feel like this statements reflects some ideas of today's movements. How people in this time frame would think of anti-slavery supporters as fanatics. And if you compare to movements like the #Metoo or feminism, many people would call them fanatics or sometimes even "crazy" just because they are brave enough to stand up for what they believe in. However, this shows that just like slavery was abolish, one day we will have absolute equality in many other ways.