Like the taste of that koolaid do ya? IF America was the only country to ever have been a slaveholding nation, then yes, it would be a national scar, BUT slavery has existed since time immemorial. Slavery has crossed every national, ethnic, social, racial and historic boundary. Your statement infers that Americans are unique in having had slaves. We are not in the least unique in that regard, but the whites in this country fought a war amongst themselves to decide the fate of those held as slaves in their midst, and in that, we are unique.
Further, prior to the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, there was no nation called the United States, only a collection of colonies of the British Empire. When the Civil War started in 1861, the nation had only existed for 80 years. From the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 2008 is 143 years giving the USA a life span of 227 years, so slavery was only a part of America's history for barely one third of its existence. When you are willing to hold the rest of the world and all previous eras of time to the same standards you are judging America by, then you might have a point, but until then, you are just spewing worthless angst, and you can take that kind of unjustified spittle elsewhere. I hear that the DU and the KOSkiddies share your position on slavery.
Go ahead...attack me for thinking slavery is wrong.
Sorry, I don’t drink Kool Aid and the fact that you lump me with DU and Kos folks only shows your ignorance.
I maintain that slavery is, and always will be, a sad era in our history.
I was not talking about the rest of the word and their history with slavery, I was talking about America...the land that I LOVE.