[Jedi Master Pikachu]

What, you don't find this a little.....fishy.....that these people just happened to choose to flee to what would be the last country in the Americas to officially ban slavery, and a country which imported and had even more slaves than the United States?

wideawake made a very valid point, and a point that is about a prejudiced as noting many early Australian colonists were convicts or that the American federal government did not uphold agreements made with some Amerindian tribes--namely, the point was not prejudiced.

[Lee'sGhost]

I think it makes sense that people would go to where they could continue the way of life they were used to whatever the circumstances. The points you just stated are certainly valid for discussion. That was not my point.

My point was that making a comment using jingoistic and pejorative statements like “great consolation to her defeated ancestors” and “enjoy the precious right to own other people” is a dumb@ss way to engage people in discussion.

But that’s just me.