Dear Ed Wallis,
Include the value of slave labor in building America, factor in inflation, and I still doubt if things would even out, but go for it.
I personally think that both slavery and the Jewish holocaust were evil. I think what’s happening in Darfur is evil. I don’t know what you find so offensive about teaching that slavery was evil, just as it’s taught that the German actions perpetuating the holocaust were evil.
You made my point. Germans at least acknowledge that they were satanic a**holes to jews, Americans – mostly white – think it’s okay to gloss over the part of history where they were satanic a**holes to native Americans, blacks and lots of other groups.
I know, I know, Native Americans have casinos, black people have professional sports, so hey – why can’t everyone just get over it?
/sarc
