On the Assertion by Demagogues Such as Melissa Harris-Perry (What a Colossal Waste of a Hyphen) that the Treatment of Blacks in North America Was Some Sort of Uniquely Evil Episode

Total bullshit. The fact of the matter is that slavery was practiced throughout the world (and still exists today) and if anything how it was administered here was mild when compared to what happened in South America, the Caribbean, Northern Africa, etc. (and, no, I'm not saying that slavery was a benign institution - just making a comparison). And neither was the institution confined just to Sub-Saharan Africans, either. Poor whites from the ghettos of London were also rounded up and in the 17th Century Cromwell sent tens of thousands of Irish people (as a part of his ruthless attempt at ethnic-cleansing) to Barbados where they were quite literally worked TO DEATH (have an image of that in your office, too, Melissa). Yes, slavery was a stain on our country's history but to try and create some mythos about it and to dwell on it 150 years after it was abolished is thoroughly getting lame, I think. If I was to counsel folks like Perry, it would be to get them to look at not just how well that the the East Asians (another group that was treated like garbage in the 19th and early 20th Centuries) have done but also how well that the black immigrants from Africa and the West Indies have done, and to try and get them to rally around that instead of this incessant victimization BS.......................................................................................................Recommended reading; "White Cargo" by Don Jordan and "To Hell or Barbados" by Sean O'Callaghan.