Stick to your guns. This country is for everyone and his race. It was built together by everyone and his race.

Washington and the Congress has moved onward and upward in the eradication of slavery. Congress had a 50-50 chance of approving or disapproving of slavery and continued taking the high road to slavery emmancipation. Those slavery days are over! Lets move on in a spirit of pride and co-opertion.

My ancestors came here from Europe just being emmancipated from SERFDOM, previously SLAVERY. One of the actions they took was to come to this country. They were unhappy there so they left and came to America If our country still seems to hold some in self imposed slavery, then with the DNA Data Bank, they can find out where they came from. They can go back to thier historical roots and make a happy life for themselves.

As our country opened westward, slavery was not approved of. In round figures, about half of our states had slaves. As A former Iowan, I was most pleased to learn that not only did Iowa NOT CONDONE slavery, but became a place of refuge for runaway slaves. Iowa did NOT ALLOW people to capture runaway slaves! That make me very proud.

We lost more Americans during the Civil War than in all our wars put together for the benefit of emmancipating the slaves. We never hear even a teeny weeny thank you nor have we asked for one. So far, I have not heard one word of acknowledgement of so many people who not slaves, dying for thier betterment in America. What about all those dead in thier behest? All I ever hear is the constant barrage of the guilt thier descendants wish to place on us. And so many of our American ancestors came after the Civil War but we are presumed to be guilty too.

One more thing, only a mighty FEW people were wealthy enough to own slaves. The majority of the population could not afford slaves. Even former slaves were able to own slaves. How about that for all for all this placement of guilt!

Get off this kick, move on, and if some still envision themselves as still a slave, find your historical country, move there and embrace it. I'm sure you would have much to offer any of those countries. Good Luck.