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indyjoe · 56-60, M
I hate that it was even a part of our history. I don't think America will get over it anytime soon for the very reason that nobody will let it go. It happened, it's over, nobody living today had a single thing to do with it (not slave, not slave owner/promoter). But yet it keeps getting brought up over and over again. We won't get past it until people stop stirring the pot....plain and simple. This may get me labeled racist (not true), but this is how I feel about this particular issue.
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@indyjoe let's not forget that white people were also slaves during that time period as well. Bottom line is slavery has happened back then and now it's long since been gone and there's nothing now that can be done to change what happened then.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@SW-User I agree and haven't forgotten that...but from the 'great debate' over it I think the majority has.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@SW-User Exactly...very wise notation. We must also not forget or ignore these facts either...It wasn't only African Americans who her slaves. There was also the Chinese (they built most of our railroads), the whites you mentioned (became slaves to people in exchange for their passage to the new world), and then native Americans (who still live on reservations for the most part in virtual poverty)...yet nothing is hardly ever said about them. That's why I say we need to move past it. Until we do that we will never move forward.