Reply #146: agenda?

[imenja]

It is called history. The interpretation I offered is entirely standard. Historians differentiate between labor systems. Indentured servitude is not slavery. Pick up a US history textbook if you don't believe me. Go to the library and read some books written by professional historians and reviewed by academic presses rather than random websites.

Let's concede your point that a few whites were enslaved. The point, however, is that the institution in the Americas was a racial one. Odd examples do not represent a pattern. Planters throughout the Americans enslaved Africans and used racism as a justification. Any publication by anyone other than a white supremacist will make that clear to you.

You evidently feel uncomfortable acknowledging the role race as played in our national formation. To continually insist that whites were a principal target of slavery is like claiming millionaires dominate the US prison population, using John Rigas and Martha Stewart as examples. Any instances of white slaves number far fewer than millionaires serving time in American penitentiaries.

All forms of oppression are horrendous, but they are not all equal in their brutality.