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And America lived up to that responsibility by abolishing slavery and working towards the end of racial discrimination and giving all people access to, and rights under, the same U.S. Cons ution. What more do you want? Why should White (or non-black) America still be making reparations, excuses, and apologies for a wrong they had absolutely nothing to do with; and, to a people (Blacks), less than 15% of whom, are even remotely related to anyone who was ever an American slave, and among whom 0% were ever slaves?
In fact, there are more African immigrants in this country now, that came from countries where slavery is practiced by black Africans -- more recently than did America and, in fact, some currently -- than there are Black Americans that are the descendants of anyone remotely affected by the American slave trade.
Hey, here's a trivia question for you.
What did freed slaves do when taken back to Africa, given assistance in setting up their own government and given a country, Liberia?
That's right, enslaved people...
And, just because a person was forcibly removed from Africa, put on a slave ship, and brought to America to be sold as a slave doesn't mean they were treated worse than indentured servants.
Some estimates place the percentage of murdered indentured servants at 50%. They were similarly taken into bondage in lieu of a debt owed by themselves or family, put on ships and forced to work to repay that debt. Many were killed and punished more harshly than slaves.
In fact, if you'd read your history a little more, you'd realize that indentured servitude was the pre-cursor to slavery in American and, it wasn't until "masters" had killed most of the servants or ran them off by their oppressive punishments that American business began looking for an alternative -- slavery.
Slave were considered property and cared for as such. Indentured servants were considered expendable commodities and, similarly treated.
Indentured servitude wasn't any different than being owned. But, that argument aside, slaves (until the abolitionist movement gained steam) were, for the most part, well treated because crippled, sick, and timid slaves were of little use.
I will concede that slavery, as a practice, is much, much, much less palatable than indentured servitude because it involves actually seeing another human being as something less than human. However, the results of the two practices were not that different and, in the case of indentured servitude -- which, by the way, lasted much longer in America (and in some cases still exists), than did slavery -- the ill-treatment of servants was incessant from the beginning to the end.
Indentured servants who escaped were tracked down and killed just like slaves. And, just like the murderers of slaves, those that killed indentured servants went largely unpunished.
Sorry, blacks today -- all of which never suffered under slavery and the vast majority of whom do not descend from slaves but, instead, probably descend from slave holders in other countries -- need to shut up and quit expecting American to continue the pity party.
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