[smug]

Proof positive that blacks prefer slavery

That is just a silly and gratuitous statement. I doubt there was any slave in history that preferred slavery to freedom and self determination.

[gafusa]

I wish that was true. But people continue to vote for policies to re-enslave themselves, like the welfare state.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

That is just a silly and gratuitous statement.

It would be, if it hadn't been rendered with ironic intent.

[Razz Barry]

That is just a silly and gratuitous statement. I doubt there was any slave in history that preferred slavery to freedom and self determination.

Let me try to relieve some of your doubts. My sister, who has studied the Cherokee of Georgia, says it was common practice for those unable to care for themselves to allow themselves to be enslaved. I, about ten years ago, studied slavery of Africa. In times of famine, Africans would sell themselves, and their children, to white slave traders to keep from starving. Today, we send them foreign aid and we have welfare. Money forced from the pockets of Americans who have no real idea what it is to be free.

Slavery comes in many forms. Everyone receiving government handouts is, in my opinion, practicing a far worse form of slavery today than did our forefathers. I really don't understand why we want to judge, so harshly, the actions of those hundreds of years ago. We have NO idea what it was like in those times. Most of us, if we had to go back in time, would never be able to survive a month.