[Station 51]

That's ancient history! Black people in America had better be very grateful for slavery in America. If it weren't for slavery in America...

You are one sick SOB and an embarrassment not only to Free Republic but all Americans, Christianity and humanity itself. Your statement is the equivalent to anti-Semitics stating that Jews are better off because of the Holocaust because now they have their own nation. What a disgrace and embarrassment you are.

[hoosierskypilot]

Sorry. You're wrong. It is ancient history. And just because you're looking for cash-money in reparations means nothing to me. I've already paid billions in reparations. It's call affirmative action and reverse discrimination.

And, are you honestly going to suggest that African Americans would be better off if their ancestors had never been brought to America? You're delusional.

And, sir, you are the embarrassment. You're like every other liberal I've known, viz., you don't mind freedom of speech as long as it's your speech that is free.

And, finally, lesson #4 to the peanut gallery: We are not saying the slaves brought to America should have been thankful. We are saying what educated, conservative African Americans have already said, viz., that the descendants of slavery in America are much better off than if they had been born in Africa.

Try to keep up.

[cyborg]

I am not speaking for him, but he did go into more depth and explanation. You should check out our exchange. As for Jews during the Holocaust, well what can I say? Jews for Jesus has a book edited by holocaust survivors who tell stories of tremendous good coming out of evil. Also, if you look at a lot of the survivors on the whole, many became successful people here in America.

[hoosierskypilot]

all Americans, Christianity and humanity

In point of fact, Christianity does not condemn slavery.

Slavery is unAmerican, however. (Unless you count my having to work for six months out of the year just to pay taxes.)

But, inhumane? Not all slave owners mistreated their slaves. Many slaves stayed with their former owners after the war.

But who said anything about the Jews and the holocaust? Yours is a logical fallacy of comparing apples to asphalt shingles.

You need to take a deep breath and repeat after me, "Not everybody is my enemy. Some people actually like me....."