[Aevery_Freeman]

Not if I knew that Obama would eventually be in charge but considering the alternative.

Since blacks were only enslaved in the United States of America from about 1783 until 1865 and then only in a portion of the United states, you may have overstated the "greats."

A case could be made.

[UltraV]

1783? Where do you get that? And slavery is wrong. Get that through your skull.