re: Watching Roots and its making me sick

Slavery still goes on in Africa.

There's slavery in Haiti. Black families sell their kids to other black families as laborers.

Freed blacks also owned slaves.

At no period in human history has there not been slavery.

Blacks in the south were treated better by their masters than whites in the north working in early factories. If they died they were replaceable. Slaves represented a considerable investment.

Of course, the Mandingo fighting in Django was absolute b s. -never happened.

Blacks captured other blacks in Africa and then sold them to the slave traders.

Where would blacks be of they'd never been brought to the US? What would our country look like? Those are the questions people know the answer to but won't say.