While all of that is true the fact remains they were slaves.
They were forced, under arms, into a life they did not choose and would not accept if left to their own devises.
The founders revolted against the crown for less than that and today we're practically up in arms over less.
Imagine being told by your employer you had to work 40 to 50 hours for free but after that anything you earned you could keep for yourself OR give to him for the right to finally start being your own man even though you were a few thousand miles from your original home.Slavery is still slavery.
OTOH: I'm actually, even in modern times, OK with voluntary indentured servitude and I think any form public assistance should include mandatory labor. Those who are habitually unable to support themselves should be sold to whoever will pay for their support in return for their work.
But this implies a "voluntary" state of affairs. The institution the abolitionists railed against was anything but voluntary and no person here would or should accept the terms it imposed on its victims.
What I highlighted describes the state of affairs for 90% of all European Americans' ancestors. My own Mom's people, the Hungarians, were victims of the fedual system of serfdom until 1848. Does that make me a victim? Puleeze. In this country, people HAVE been discriminated against because they had brown or black skin, and now many of their descendants feel free to return the favor. How do two wrongs make a right? All black Americans who rail against past injustices to their ancestors do is set up my back and many others as well. Any dipshit reading this from the liberal viewpoint will call me a racist. Fine. Whatever. I feel sorry for people who live in a state of denial. You are entitled to your opinions, but not your facts, DUmmies, and plenty have been presented by other posters here. Google serfdom and get back to me. Or, rather, please don't bother. I'm sure you will find a way to justify feeling a special status as a victim, although people have lived in slavery since mankind has existed, and always will in some places, unless maybe you go spend some of your ****ing liberal outrage on the abuses of people in other parts of the world. Take the beam out of your own eye, and use it to hit yourself upside the head. Maybe then you can stimulate those two brain cells you carry around into forming a logical thought.
For the most part, liberals in the USA railing against racism and sexism and homophobia are like children who feel free to cuss out their parents because they feel safe. Go spew the same rant in damn near any non European country in the world and you're likely to end up dead, or a slave in truth.
