Arizona GOP Congressional Candidate: Slavery Wasn’t So Bad
For no apparent reason, Arizona Republican congressional candidate Jim Brown began discussing slavery on his Facebook page.
Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs,” wrote Brown. “Not by beating them and starving them,” he said, adding “Although there were isolated cases, of course.”
“Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along,” he said…
He apologized for the remarks and took down the Facebook post on Friday.
“Some people read this to mean that I didn’t think slavery was that bad. I believe that slavery is worse than death — yesterday, today and tomorrow. I apologize to anyone I offended,” he wrote.
