People need to understand that our founding father’s generation was born into slave-ownership. People need to understand that if the muslims hadn’t offered the blacks for sale and some africans hadn’t offered their family and friends for sale, that europeans wouldn’t have been able to purchase black slaves nor pass slavery as an institution down through the generations. People need to understand that white Americans fought a war to end black slavery and the south surrendered. When I see a confederate flag or monument that is what I remember, the south surrendered and it was time to move forward as Americans, free black and white Americans.
People need to understand that there is still slavery in the muslim world, much of africa and other places in this world, but the U.S. fought a war, brother against brother and ended slavery in the U.S.A.