Hi John, nice to meet you and thank you for reading and engaging.

I don't think anyone denies enslavement of other ethnicities or a portion of that enslavement from our own people. But we weren't considered human beings. The difference for me is the savagery: raping of our women, separating families, beatings, inhumane treatment of an entire race. Lest we forget, the slaves freedom was part of a package deal after the civil war when it was no longer profitable.

Hypocrisy, complete erasure of contributions of a people whom this country was built on the backs of for centuries and who still experience the residual effects of institutionalized racism through our governmental policies today is despicable.

Not to mention slavery spawned a huge wealth gap...disparities based on a head start from the dominant class receiving over 200 years of free labor, 4 billion in 1860, nor the destroying of Black wealth in American cities due to white rage in the early 1900's. Redlining, the Tuskegee experiment, Flint water crisis in areas dominated with people of color...I could go on, but I think you get my point.

Yes please. Let's put the truth in our history books.