So let me get this straight, America fought for their rights, freedom and independence in 1776 and they first thing they did is slavery??

And trying to wipe out the indigenous people and taking land from Mexico and and nuking the Japan and desirable the middle East just for oil.

And now they are trying to relive the 1940s and ww2 .

Maybe the world would've been so much better if America never had their independence day.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@TheBatQueen said

first thing they did is slavery??

Not the first thing by a long shot. The British brought slaves to Jamestown in 1619, but they weren't the first. The Spanish has slaves in their west coast colonies in perhaps the 1600s.

What the founders failed to do was free the slaves. Washington & Jefferson were both slave owners from Virginia; they couldn't be wealthy gentlemen without slaves. In the Constitutional Convention of 1787 the question of slavery was hotly debated and certain "compromises" were reached. Perhaps they hoped it could be slowly and bloodlessly phased out. Six northern states had abolished slavery by the early 1800s, so perhaps it was reasonable to hope that others would follow suit.