“Black people ought to kiss the ground here and be thankful that somewhere in their families’ distant past an ancestor was driven from his African home by an Arab muslim and sold to a waiting ship, bringing him the the US.”
One small clarification:
NOT the U.S. necessarily, rather, the territory occupied by the Dutch, French, Spanish and British - PRIOR to becoming the U.S...
oh yeah... the U.S. who MADE THEM ALL FREE..
Quibble. Most African who were captured and turned into slaves did not come to the US. Most where taken to the Caribbean and South America.
But here we are talking about the descendants of the ones who were landed the US and sold in various slave markets - Charleston was one of the largest markets I believe.