"Tim Daneliuk" wrote in message
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Since you insist on harping on slavery, let me acquaint you with some
realities of slavery you're conveniently ignoring:

- Slavery in some form has existed in all of recorded human history.

So what?

- The slavery that brought Africans to the US was instituted BY Africans
AGAINST Africans long before the Europeans ever showed up.

So what?

- African Muslim pirates (the Barbary Corsairs) attacked and enslaved
white Europeans well before the Europeans ever engaged in slavery
themselves.
These pirates operated from the 11th century through the 19th by
some accounts.

So what?

- Of all major cultures ONLY the Judeo-Christian influenced Westerners
*gave up slavery voluntarily*, whether by internal civil war or
legislative decree.

Good for them.

- One of the two places in the world you can still buy slaves in large
numbers is ... wait for it ... AFRICA. (Somalia and Mauretania to be
exact. The other is the white slavery going on in the Eastern Bloc
and Islamic worlds.)

So what?

So, before you get too haughty about the eeeeeeeeeevil Founding
Fathers,

Are you capable of speaking in anything but slogans? Your posts are
peppered with buzzwords from the rabid-right, can't you function without
borrowing their group-speak?

As for your argument, pointing out that other cultures had slavery too, as
if that's a valid excuse to continue it in America, is a feeble notion.
You've also overlooked that Britain abolished slavery before the United
States, and they managed to do it without the U.S. Constitution, imagine
that.