Eugene Robinson's triumphalism over "12 Years a Slave"

I left this comment for Mr. Robinson's article that can be found here.

Eugene, people knew already that the United States had this problem 'growing up', and that slavery was an intolerable condition that existed when this nation was founded. During the Civil War, there was considerable blood shed banishing slavery from the USA. Not since that war have Americans shed as much blood for any cause, as was shed for the banishing of slavery. Most of that blood was spilled by whites.

Today, we still have that scar - no, a barely-healed scab. And the picking at it by the Democratic Party's official 'race hustlers' (who, granted, need some way to make a living) doesn't promote a true healing process. Your glowing sense of triumphalism over this film's "uncomfortable truth" and your hope that scholars can dig up even more award-winning historic moments to endlessly parade in our collective faces does nothing but dig at that ugly scab, and serves but to further divide this Republic, at a time when that dividing is increasingly dangerous.

Should we, as a nation, forget about slavery? No. Should we gouge open these scabbed-over wounds forever, going forward, when doing so might perhaps cause yet more bloodshed, for whatever end result you imagine (but fail to even begin to elucidate) is better than simply letting time heal us all?

In these increasingly divisive times, when many people see our nation again rending along racial and political lines (somehow those lines are kept neatly parallel, if not perfectly conjoined), and again perhaps headed towards another, even more deadly Civil War, these scab-diggings you are trumpeting as good and proper are not at all helpful.

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