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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: KLP who wrote (35537)5/18/2009 8:39:27 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: "Look Buddy....How far back do we have to go until slavery ends...and then again, how far forward from the birth of the slave, and his/her children, grandchildren, greatgrands, etc etc etc....."

How far back do YOU want to go in the discussion?

(After all... it was your comment about ancient African history that triggered my reply, and my only comment. <g>)

Re: "And if your point is, that once a slave in the family, is always a slave in mentality..."

Sorry... but that is NOT 'my point', and never has been.

All I said was this:

The folks that you were remarking about ["Most slaves came from Africa. The Africans themselves sold their OWN people into slavery."] ain't no Spring chickens EITHER. <g>

In fact, they are considerably further back in time then the people I referred to in my reply: What about the children who were born into slavery?

Correct me if I've come away from your remark with the wrong impression of it... but it seemed like you were (to some degree) trying to justify or minimize the evil of slavery by saying that "Africans sold their own people..." (actually, big roles were played by Arab slave traders, or later the Portuguese, etc.)

But that avoids any discussion of CHILDREN (sometimes several generations of progeny) who found themselves unlucky enough to be born into slavery... surely they had done nothing to be cursed with permanent servitude?
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