Black Leaders Exaggerate Abuses of Slavery

Use of Holocaust is misguided. It minimizes that event, and does not apply to the way that Black slaves were treated. They were exploited yes, but they were not murdered as government policy as Jews were in Germany and Poland. Jews were slaves in Egypt but don't blame Egyptians alive today, or Germans either. Few Black leaders recognize that 600,000 White Americans were killed fighting to end slavery. Instead of blaming contemporary White Americans for abuses of their ancestors, they deserve thanks for ending slavery in this country. 40 years of Affirmative Action (government racism) addresses past abuses.

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"celebrations marking secession (South Carolina, Georgia), and a mock inauguration of Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy (Alabama).
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The president of Alabama’s NAACP chapter, Bernard Simelton, compared such events to “celebrating the Holocaust.”
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“When one starts talking about the ‘otherness’ of the president,” says Burns, “it’s just a way to say that he’s different. And the only thing that’s different is his skin pigmentation. Those old forms of tribalism still have their sway over our equality.”

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George Custer, promoted to brigadier general at only 23, in a portrait by Mathew Brady.

150 years later, a battle still lingers
We're still healing from the Civil War
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:01 PM, April 10, 2011
Posted: 10:27 PM, April 9, 2011