31 Mar 2025 12:30 pm
Here is what I'm getting at. When Blacks claim they have been "held back" due to their ancestors being enslaved in America, I call **** on that. They were brought thousands of years into the future. It would be absurd for anyone today to think that Africans of the 1700's could just work alongside European Whites as anything close to equals. They simply weren't.Vegas » Today, 11:10 am » wrote: ↑ Ok...so they were enslaved in Africa also. That is irrelevant. You are basically just saying that if you are going to be oppressed, then it's better to be oppressed in America. But they are still oppressed. I am not sure where you are getting at. The point of the OP is that America would have never gotten off the ground if we didn't have a solid foundation of oppression in place.
I would not disagree with you that American as we know it, may not have expanded to the extent that it has without African laborers. I do disagree that the majority were oppressed. Most had a much better life here than they would have in Africa.