Howdy sir toddrjohnson! Thanks so much for your wonderful comment, it's excellent. I agree with you and I too have studied the discrimination against blacks and the fight to keep them from buying homes etc. It's shameful and sickening.
In regards to my post, I had nothing in mind like what has been caused by it. I just threw something together real fast because I didn't have anything to post about and I saw this article which was interesting. I liked the Old West look of it because I'm and Old West writer. That's what my blog is about, telling stories about the American Wild West.
I never thought about race or anything and the last thing I would ever want to do is cause offense or controversy or to upset anyone. My blog is simply entertainment and hopefully sneak in some history lessons and some laughs.
I thought only my few readers would see this and they know me and get my sense of humor, I never dreamed that steemitbloggers would resteem it. In fact, I figured they wouldn't touch this one with a ten foot pole! lol.
So if I knew that was going to happen I never would have mentioned the 1819 comment, that was in reference to my blog about the Wild West in the 1800's and my readers know my tongue-in-cheek, dry sense of humor.
In fact, if I knew this was going to be picked up and read by so many people, I never would have posted it at all!
Thank you sir so much for your thoughtful and well written comment!