She said:"....slavery was good for southern society". (billion, bill)

[calipoppy]

Originally Posted by lionsgators

slavery was a great thing for the blacks. they were lucky enough to get to come here from a cesspool like africa.

Thank you for reminding me to place you on ignore.

[Chowhound]

Slavery was a financial dependency the south had, it was one of the major reasons for the civil war, they were concerned that they couldn't complete without the free labor of the slaves.......

[lionsgators]

Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry

Oh sure who doesn't like an all expenses paid trip where you have a bad survival rate on the "cruise" over and you get to see your family torn apart. I hope you are lucky enough to experience something like that.

do you think any black would take the one way ticket back to africa? no. they were lucky that other blacks sold them into slavery. slavery was nearly a billion years ago, so it is insignificant. what is significant is that blacks were lucky to come here in the first place.

[Hadoken]

Actually, it was *very* good for the south economically. Slaves were the single most valuable resource type in the US, and Cotton basically kept the south running - and financing several attempts to expend it into other countries such as Cuba or Nicuragua.

Of course, if you say "southern society", you have to include the black people who were the slaves. And slavery was pretty horrific for them, though not "Django Unchained" bad. I'm not really sure how you put a dollar value on being physically or sexually abused, or having your family broken up at the whims of a outsider, and I really wouldn't try.

[Futurist110]

Originally Posted by Rocco Barbosa

Their is no comparison to the blacks in Africa and those in America.

Here's what I find strange, there are more black billionaires in Africa than America.

Africa also has much more Black people than the U.S. does, so it makes sense for them for have more Black billionaires than the U.S.

[MrClose]

Amazing how much ignorance is on display about slavery.

I have posted numerous threads on the history.

[kidkaos2]

Originally Posted by Rocco Barbosa

Their is no comparison to the blacks in Africa and those in America.

Here's what I find strange, there are more black billionaires in Africa than America.

There are close to a billion black people in Africa. There are around 30 million black people in America. So why would you find that strange?

[Futurist110]

Originally Posted by kidkaos2

There are close to a billion black people in Africa. There are around 30 million black people in America. So why would you find that strange?

That's what I just said.

[L0ve]

The bible promotes slavery, so it must be good, right?

[Futurist110]

Originally Posted by lionsgators

do you think any black would take the one way ticket back to africa? no. they were lucky that other blacks sold them into slavery. slavery was nearly a billion years ago, so it is insignificant. what is significant is that blacks were lucky to come here in the first place.

Maybe a Black person today could be a little happy about this in certain regards, but not the Black people who lived in the U.S. in/during the days of slavery.