There were also endentured servants. Many of my people- the Bohemians- were enslaved by the Nazis. My great, great grandmother saw her friend KOS when they were caught throwing food over the fence to prisoners of a concentration camp. She was enslaved instead because she could sew and they found her useful.
I know it isn’t the same because there is negative beliefs about the African American culture since at least the 1960’s. And those stick for generations. But things have changed since then- there are many successful BIPOC. The Founding Fathers noticed that slavery was wrong and intended, in the Constitution, to abolish it a century later. That was a mistake because people got used to it and started to take advantage of people who they began to see as inferior.
I think it’s time that people study their own ancestry and claim autonomy to their beliefs and values. No one is going to fix things for anyone else. The Bohemian culture made it through the Holocaust, despite the language being dead due to all the speakers being euthanized in the death camps. They payed attention to their humanity and many people appropriate decor and fashion still today. I don’t care though because I’m glad there are other people who like it, too.
It’s not up to the white man, just like it wasn’t up to the Nazis. Cultures carry on and survive because people like it and want to keep them alive.
It is up to people within a culture to make it better and keep it alive. Nothing will get done with blame. And I’ve had to learn this on a personal level, too.
What the ■■■■ are talking about? Slavery had little to nothing to do with making the US an economic superpower. If slavery were the key to becoming an economic superpower any country could just implement slavery and simply become an economic superpower. It was the result of our capitalist system and entrepreneurial spirit of the 1960’s through the 1990’s that made the US an economic superpower.
Today’s lib/prog will never get over it. All they do is obsess over America’s past racial evils. Ironically though the majority of today’s hard-core lib/progs are largely atheists who don’t believe in moral absolutes.
