How many times do I have to hear “America is haunted by slavery”? That, of course, only includes black slavery. It doesn’t take into account that almost every country in the world has practiced slavery, and others still do even today. Some of them are more brutal than ever existed here. Yet I’m supposed to worry about slavery 200 freaking years ago, and feel “haunted” by it. No one is a slave in the land of the free, get over it. Call me a racist if you want to. But that makes you a liar.
You read my mind, Telepathic Intruder!
Every human being is a desendent of slaves. America did not invent slavery, nor was it the first to end it. But it was among the first. Great Britain abolished slavery in the British Empire in 1807. The United States took another another 55 years. Before Spain, Portugal, Egypt and many other had done so. White people ENDED slavery.
How many times do I have to hear “America is haunted by slavery”? That, of course, only includes black slavery. It doesn’t take into account that almost every country in the world has practiced slavery, and others still do even today. Some of them are more brutal than ever existed here. Yet I’m supposed to worry about slavery 200 freaking years ago, and feel “haunted” by it. No one is a slave in the land of the free, get over it. Call me a racist if you want to. But that makes you a liar.