I have never owned a slave
My fathers fathers fathers fathers and so on ...... might have but I had no control over that
Actually most of my family were starved out of the Irish lands by the Brits - will someone please compensate me for the loss of family lands and the deaths of my ancestors - who by the way would be dead by now anyways.
Interesting that slavery started out with blacks and islamics doing a lot of the catching and then selling to the slavers
Anyone asked for an apology from them?
Or how about the slavers of today?
Anyone planning to ask them to shut down their operations?
In all honesty you Americans need to stop this wearing of the hair shirt and beating yourselves silly - it is done and none of YOU today were involved - you have no control over what your families did or did not do in the past - you can only control what they do today and to a certain extent what they will do tomorrow.
There comes a time when people MUST take responsibility for their actions and their own lives - many of us need to start demanding this.
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