What did you expect Virginia to do, celebrate the slaves?
I think it is also terrible that during Black History Month 0bama forgets about all of the blacks that owned slaves IN AMERICA. I think it equally terrible that it is neglected during Black History Month the fact that the very first question over the legalities of owning another individual in the colonies..... was brought about in a lawsuit in which a BLACK man claimed he OWNED another black man. The "owner" won his lawsuit.
I think it is is unacceptable that blacks in America don't take responsibility for their actions regarding slavery.
I also find it unacceptable that blacks burned Chicago, Watts, Los Angeles, New Orleans etc etc etc. Yet, this is left out of Black History Month too........
Yes, in the South slaves were owned. Yes, in the north, Mass. was the first colony to legalize slaves. Yes, even during the War Between the States, northern slave runners repeatedly skirted the blockade and delivered new slaves to the South (illegal for north and South at the time).
Yes, blacks in the South were approx 2 inches taller (on avg) than blacks in the north. For the most part Southern blacks were well treated...... what about the African Burial Grounds discovered in Manhattan? You know where the bones were misshapen from where the blacks had literally been worked to death?
Now, I'm not conding slavery, or anything of the sort. But, if we have to constantly wear "our" sins around our necks even though nobody I know ever owned slaves let's make sure we have our facts straight of who else should be apologizing.......
BTW, how many folks in Barry's tribe in Kenya sold people into slavery? And hey, don't people still have slaves in parts of Africa? And didn't Barry campaign for his cousin Raila Odinga who lost his election? Didn't that lead to people being hacked up with machetes, burned alive, villages torched? Maybe he can fit all of that in on his next MLK Day speech.