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You're honestly saying that today's blacks would have been better off if they had remained in Africa? Get real.

*You don't have to be snippy. I never said that. Did I? You haven't read anything else I've said in FR. I've said in the past that despite the cruelties of slavery, great good has come out of it. What I did say was, that I've never met someone THANKFUL for the slavery itself. I've had a lot of bad things happen to me, not one of which I am thankful for. But I am thankful for the good things that have happened because of it.

An excellent book Myths That Divide Us, by John Perazzo, (a young black man in America) has drawn rave reviews from eminent commentators.

He says black-white relations are sabotaged by demagogues who mischaracterize our country as racist.

*This country was racist. Please don't deny that. Up till the late Sixties my father couldn't travel with my mother in the South because she was half black and a foreigner. I've had a lot of things happen to me by black Americans for being white and having a West Indian mother. My father's family were severely discriminated against for being Italian. Is this country racist now? On an instutional level the way it was in the South during Jim Crow,etc. absolutely not. Actually you can't compare today to yesterday at all. It's a completely different society.

I've never read this book you've quoted from. He isn't saying anything to me that I haven't been saying here in FR. I just disagree with people who say blacks should be thankful for slavery itself, without expounding more on WHY, and with a bit more compassion. You should check out some of the things I've written in the past on FR in my profile.

I just disagree with people who say blacks should be thankful for slavery itself, without expounding more on WHY,

This ,,,could be a reason why.

Wilmot, explained to King Gelele: "England has been doing her utmost to stop the slave trade in this country. Much money has been spent, and many lives sacrificed to obtain this desirable end, but hitherto without success. I have come to ask you to put an end to this traffic and to enter into some treaty with me."

Gelele refused: "If white men came to buy, why should I not sell?" Wilmot asked how much money he needed. "No money will induce me...I am not like the kings of Lagos and Benin. There are only two kings in Africa, Ashanti and Dahomey: I am King of all the Blacks. Nothing will compensate me for the lose of the slave trade."

Gelele also told Burton, "If I cannot sell my captives taken in war, I must kill them, and surely the English would not like that. -King Gelele of Africa

This country was racist

Of course it was racist. It still is racist. And some blacks are some of the most racist people on earth.

That's what I was saying in the first place. If more blacks want to be treated fairly, then maybe they're going to have to reciprocate.

And since America is being flooded by people who do not have to carry the obligatory guilt trip, blacks are going to lose concessions granted them in the 60's and beyond.

Therefore, it's in their own best interests to grow up (the blacks who are racist and whining that they continue to be oppressed).