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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody has the "right" to free labor of another human being or the "right" to take another person's money to pay for free services.

It is charity given by the grace of others.

The entitlement attitude is childish and gross.[/quote]

Thomas Jefferson and George Washington certainly felt they had the right to the free labor of the black men, women and children they enslaved. Jefferson also felt he had the right to force Sally Hemings to have sex with him and bear his children which he then forced to work for him until he died. Jefferson and Washington did a lot for America’s founding but they also felt entitled to the free labor of black people that they enslaved despite all their talk about freedom, rights, liberty. I don’t think Sally Hemings, her children, or any of the other thousands of black people who were essentially held hostage and forced to work for free were doing it to be charitable.  We’ve all benefited from that forced labor though because we live in the country they helped found and they were able to do what they did and accomplish what they did with the help of the men, women and children they forced to work for free.

We all benefit too when we shop at Amazon, McDonalds, Walmart, and similar businesses and the prices are lower because they can pay their employees less because they don’t have to pay health insurance or a living wage.  Bezos can rent Venice because he doesn’t pay taxes like the rest of us. Bezos, Musk, Trump, Bloomberg and many other Billionaires have had years where they’ve paid zero federal taxes and tax rates as low as .1 percent.  In 2011 when Bezos was worth 18 BILLION he received a $4,000 tax credit for his kids. The people with the entitlement problem are the greedy billionaires and mega millionaires who’ve bought our media, Supreme Court, and government and they’ve done it by convincing people like you that the people looking for a hand out or to live off someone else’s free, discounted, or forced labor are the working poor, the disabled, children, veterans, and old people who need Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. [/quote]

Why the fixation on Thomas Jefferson?  Go back fifty years and it was a black person that selling them into slavery.  Fastforward a hundred years and it was a bunch of poor white people from MAGA country who ended the practice.  1960s slavery was still legal in the Middle East.  Today in Kenya (remember where Obama's father is from) there are still 180,000 people living in slavery.

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Trying to compare chattel slavery to the type of slavery that has always existed elsewhere shows your lack of understanding of it. Also, blaming Africans for their own enslavement is pretty low. See above about chattel slavery being it's own unique horror that Africans of the time had no reference point for. And then to somehow credit white MAGA country for ending slavery? What universe are you even living in?

This is why we need strong public systems for public good, like schools and healthcare—so our country is made up of mostly healthy and mostly well-educated people with strong critical thinking skills. We evidently failed you. [/quote]

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