6) Civil War -- Whites have blamed Blacks for the Civil War by repeating the self-serving fallacy that they fought to "free the slaves," suggesting that we "ought to be grateful" that millions of whites "died for you." This is pure fairy tale foolishness. All whites benefited from slavery and NO WHITES cared to see Blacks as equal members of American society--not even ol' Lincoln himself. The primary profiteers of slavery were the Northern merchants and their bankers--not the Southern plantation owners, who, in the scope of things, were minor functionaries. All of the rich plantation produce--cotton, sugar, tobacco, etc.--was funneled through northern ports, where huge profits were skimmed before export to world markets. White Southerners resented their economic subservience and started the war in 1861 to cut the North out of the equation. Northerners fought back to save this lucrative money flow--NOT TO END SLAVERY! Legal slavery became the target only when it was deemed necessary to undermine the Southern strength--not to give Blacks any part of the benefits of American citizenship. Upon victory, northerners immediately plunged Blacks into debt peonage and Jim Crow discrimination for the next hundred years to maintain Blacks as de facto slave laborers. Blacks fell even deeper into poverty and ignorance.