I’d bet that pretty much all African-Americans wish their ancestors hadn’t come here in chains to be slaves.
The West is unique not in having slavery but in abolishing it. Moreover, although slavery was terrible for the slaves, it has proven to be beneficial to the descendants of slaves because it was the transmission belt that brought them to America, where their lives are immeasurably better than if they were living today in Africa.
When Muhammad Ali returned to America from Zaire after winning the heavyweight title, a reporter asked him, “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” Ali replied, “Thank God my grand-daddy got on that boat!”
Q&A with Dinesh D’Souza, Enter Stage Right.com, 10 Feb. 2003
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