Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national "birth defect" that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country's very founding.
Well, it wasn't a "birth defect". That is just plain racist and inflaming rhetoric. Slavery was a common practice in those days, and not just in America, but even in Africa, where blacks enslaved blacks, where blacks raided other black communities to capture more blacks to sell to the slave traders.
Blacks are not pure and innocent on this issue. American blacks owned black slaves.
I have no problems with America's past slavery. It was stopped, and stopped a long time ago. I have no problem with slavery in ancient Rome either, and I'll bet today's Italians don't lose a second of sleep over their ancestors slavery practices.
If slavery was an American practice today, I could understand all the fuss, but it isn't. I have never known any American that owned a slave, neither have you. I have never met a black who was a slave, neither have you.
The only people that keep bringing up this issue are blacks. The only reason blacks keep bringing it up is to gain unearned advantage.
So Obama makes a big speech on the subject, and now Rice chimes in, no doubt stirring up even more of the nurtured resentment and hatred found in American blacks everywhere, helped along by that(former) Reverend of Obama's, a race-baiter if ever there was one.
Whites, except for those with a compulsive need to feel guilt about something, have gone past this issue. It's way past time for today's blacks, who are not and have never been a slave, or ever known a slave, blacks who have college degrees, fine homes and cars, $100,000 plus jobs - things many white Americans do not have - to get over it and shut the hell up.
To have to listen to the likes of Condoleezza Rice - educated, powerful, privileged - make those kinds of remarks is disgusting.
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Complaining about slavery 100 years ago is cheap and easy. You can feel superior without every having to actually DO anything to stop modern slavery IN AFRICA TODAY.
As for me, I have no intention whatsoever of trying to stop slavery in Africa.
It's none of our business if slavery exists in Africa today, or china, or Suadi Arabia, or Lower Slobivia.
It really isn't. Unless you are ready to overthrow their government and occupy the place forever, stay out.
We can be against it, true, and outlaw it here. That we have done. But it's still none of our business how another nation runs itself.
If Africa is in the slave business today, it's because they were in the slave business when America was created. Only America changed... it's back to business as usual for them.
Not so much as "back to business" as "never went out of business".
I agree that we should not (nationally) end slavery in Africa by force, but then again, i haven't made fighting slavery 100 years ago my reason for living.
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