[Nervous Tick]

>> No amount of grooming changed the fact that he was a black man in America.

Sucks to be black in America. That’s what I’m hearing.

Slavery was a really, really, really stupid idea. That is a hard truth. America screwed up messing around with it. Slavery was (and is) immoral and evil.

Now, a couple thought questions: how much better off would America be now, if we had never been so short-sighted as to import blacks and enslave them?

~AND~

How would the average African-American have fared, over history, if we had never brought their ancestors over to this country and they therefore ended up born and raised in Africa?

Things that make you go, “hmmmmmm...”

[JimRed]

How would the average African-American have fared, over history, if we had never brought their ancestors over to this country and they therefore ended up born and raised in Africa?

Cassius Clay...errr...Muhammad Ali once said he was glad his granddaddy got on that boat.

[all the best]

I would guess that none of today’s African-Americans would ever have been born. Highly improbable that all their previous generations of parents would have met. Never in a million years. Met then married. Many would have not survived to maturity. My guess is tat every African-American descended from slaves owes his life to slavery.

[Iron Munro]

How would the average African-American have fared, over history, if we had never brought their ancestors over to this country and they therefore ended up born and raised in Africa?

Well, the kids wouldn't be wearing $200 Air Jordans while they played stolen video games on an HDTV in the family mud hut.