In truth, blacks living in the U.S. today got one helluva good deal already!
I know, I know, their great grandparents or so lived in slavery, which was awful.
But consider how long it took white people to go from living in grass huts to relatively nice houses - thousands and thousands of years.
Then consider how long it took for black Americans to go from grass huts to relatively nice houses - only a couple of hundred years (and remember, those left behind in Africa STILL live in grass huts).
Also, abortion is morally worse than slavery! At least they didn’t kill the slaves the way preborn people are killed today.
I am glad my Grandaddy got on that damn boat
- Muhammad Ali.
The ironic thing is that probably a very large pct. of blacks who came over were slaves in Africa as well. Certainly, there were no democratic countries or the rule of law in African countries. The law was whatever the king or chieftain said it was. Slaves and warfare were prevalent.
The slaves who came to America probably lived far better lives than their relatives back in Africa..unless they were royalty.
Slavery was evil, and had to go. But too many American blacks, like Coates, do not understand the tremendous opportunities they have in America. At the moment, American blacks, through the costs of crime and welfare, are a net drag on the economic system. We have been subsidizing them for many decades. It is up to them to change...not other Americans.