[edcoil]

“Slavery without a doubt was the worst mistake this country ever made”

Every country and civilization and culture has/had slaves. Only America is suppose to be guilty of it.

I am not, my ancestors worked to free slaves and I never had one so I feel no guilt.

[Bulldawg Fan]

I said that in the context that bringing slaves to this country has been a sin we have paid for ever since.

[SMARTY]

The worst mistake this country made was the treatment of native Americans... people who were here first and so totally different in culture that even if white colonists or pioneers tried their best, they could not have bridged the gap.

American Indians were stone age culturally and white colonists/pioneers were more advanced...

That particular clash played itself out all over the globe in the 19th and 20th centuries and in many ways. In the US and elsewhere indigenous peoples were overrun and exploited, etc... Africans were transported far from Africa by the British, Portuguese and others to be sold as slaves. America (the brand new, weak, vulnerable and struggling country) WAS NOT the prime mover or even the main player in THAT holocaust. More and worse was done to weak people elsewhere on the globe and almost NO ONE had it worse at the time or since than American Indians.

[humblegunner]

I am not, my ancestors worked to free slaves and I never had one so I feel no guilt.

My ancestors had a whole bunch and I feel no guilt either.

T'wasn't me.