“I think that the USA was one of the first countries to make it illegal AND immoral.”
But its not really immoral. We just put different labels on it or pretend it doesnt exist.
Yes, and as a nation we have fought both prejudice and slavery like no other........
Yet, to this day, the past is held over our heads as if slavery continued today, while more blacks prosper in middle and upper class America than in any other country.
Is there still racism? Yes - there always will be some. Is it pervasive and rampant? No, a very small percentage of our populace. Sadly, like the poor - such will always be with us. We live in a fallen world.
Yet, that small percentage will always be held in our faces by liberals and black racists (who will never be called such, one of which is Obama) who hold all of us today guilty for the sins of our fathers.........
Because of this, racial division today is much worse than ever in the last 40 years - and will continue to get worse not because of white racism, but because of reverse racism.........
If Washington had been crowned King of the American States, then slavery would have been historically consistent.
But in founding a republic based on freedom and inalienable rights, slavery was a contradiction. Slavery could not stand to be seen in such an innovative arrangement of self-governance. It was hypocritical, it was an absurdity that allowed other nations to laugh at the American Revolution as a joke. It had to go.