One of the true ironies of this entire slavery/race matter is that probably 90% of all Americans alive today are the great grandchildren of slaves, and that includes whites. Places like Europe, where the great majority were serfs, toiling in the fields their entire lives. Most with no last name, unless of the most minor nobility. And treated as poorly as any black.
Now consider how many Americans landed on these shores as immigrants (some as the offspring of the aforementioned slaves) after slavery was outlawed. My own relatives came here from Germany in the 1850′s, just in time to sign up to fight as volunteers in the Turner Verein, an all-German group of Union soldiers that detested slavery (having lived under it already). Do these people have some responsibility for the institution?
Lastly, if all this race-based talk swerves into the subject of reparations, as many of those like the Reverend Wright would likely entertain, then what does a half-white man like Obama get? 50% share? What about newer immigrants that held no slaves?
The biggest irony to anyone that actually read the history of the slave trade is that many blacks enslaved other blacks in order to deliver them to slavers. And perhaps even more ironic to the likes of the Farrakhans , is that others enslaving blacks were Arabs.
Main point is that it’s time to get over this race business. Most of us today have dozens of bloodlines running through us. And carrying around the hatred promoted by a Jeremiah Wright or Louis Farrakhan is no way to live your life.
