On the Fact that Muhammad Ali Once Articulated Gratitude that His Great Granddaddy "Got On that Boat"

The champ was of course right in that the slaves who came to North America for all intents and purposes won the grand prize. I mean, it was either come to North America and be treated relatively well by the English (and, yes, there were in fact some bad English slave-holders but there are bad folks in every walk of life and the mistreatment of slaves was a felony in pretty much every Southern state) or a) stay in sub-Saharan Africa and be brutalized by their fellow blacks, b) go to North Africa or the Middle-East and be brutalized by the Islamists, or c) go to the Caribbean or South America and be brutalized by the Spanish and Portuguese. That was it, folks...................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, the fact that we're still judging our 17th, 18th, and 19th Century ancestors by 21st Century sensibilities is also unfair and that needs to stop as well.......Sanity, anyone?