I agree with you shemsi that the words neurotic, psychotic and pathological are good ones to describe anyone who would even think that someone would even think that anyone was trying to down play the lynchings, murders, burnings, beatings and all else that is a part of the American Slave experience are being down played as you suggest. all these terms are befitting for some one who as you do suggest such a thing.

most people who think like this are hyper critical of anything that they did not bring to the table because they have a smallness complex and have to be so called out front. they often over look the obvious straining for the gnat.

I can see the merit in the question as I mentioned early because I have been trained to do critiques of event to find what went well or as expected, what went wrong and needs improvement, table top scenarios where we do worst case analysis to prepare for the eventuality of catastrophe.

you are afraid to look at the reality of the bloody past and learn from it. you are not leadership material, leaders on the battle field have to sometimes look at even lost battle to learn from them in order to be able to not repeat the actions that lead to the defeats.

no one has at all said anything about placing emphasis on the pros of the cons except you. no one has mentioned the quanitative or quality of either but you. you remind me of the campaign strategy of karl rove who have given us george bush twice with his misinformation that puts emphaisis on things not relative to the process at hand. karl rove never talked about bush, only gore and kerry....

you are found out my friend...