that the founding fathers and subsequent leadership had to construct a system that gave them a 300 plus year head start here in the US? If you count the years of enslavement of Blacks. The laws against Blacks reading. The Vagrancy laws. The Jim Crow laws. etc etc arent you kind of pissed off that your white leadership thought so very very little of your ability to succeed on a level playing field?
Jeeze
Asclepias get a grip.
Sometimes you are one of the brightest people here and the window to your soul (no pun intended) through your postings is a shining brilliance.
But at other times you seem torn by Weltschmertz -- which is the Jewish word for all the things in history that have gone "wrong" and that you cannot do anything about.
Sure it is very sad that greedy Arabs and Dutchmen bought monkey eating bone chewing jungle aborigines from central Africa and put them up on stumps in London and Amsterdam and Richmond and paraded them in front of American growers who needed cheap labor for their cotton and tobacco and sugarcane crops.
But get over it. It happened.
While all this sh!t was going on in the American colonies my own relatives were mining coal and farming and making shoes in western and central Europe.
So my kin had nothing to do with your kin getting a free boat ride out of Africa.
Has it ever occurred to you that your kin (and you) may be better off for the ordeal?
And no, nobody cared about them at all 500 years ago.