So instead of killing each other by the dozen in Major American Cities across the nation, African Americans were at one point and time productive members of society.
Unwittingly you have put forth the best argument ever to bring back slavery in America.
On a serious note , Some how this Pastafarian fella is taking some sort of pride from the fact his or her's ancestors were forced to do the **** work white people did not want to do.
Forced, I
can't put enough emphasize on
the word
Forced.
African Americans literally did the sort of work beast of burden (mules, donkeys and horses ) were used for. They were literally beasts of burdens themselves that just happened to have thumbs.
Take the Washington monument for example, African Americans supplied most of the manual labor for it's construction.
They did not have any say so in the design, nor could they understand any aspect of the engineering process for the monument to stand up right. S
You must also keep in mind the actual contributions pertaining to the construction of the United States came from the lash of a whip.
If my ancestors were not able to broker a deal with the African kings and Muslim slave traders to bring these people of burden to this great land, they would have simply paid the Irish a minuscule wage to do what the blacks were forced to do.
A few potatoes, maybe a schilling here and there and it would have been done. .
When I lost hope I gained my freedom