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DP.  Not analogous.  In all your examples, the negative events were purely happenstance.  In the case of plantations, their express purpose was forcing human beings to toil as slaves for the enrichment of the plantation owners.[/quote]

Which, at the time, was perfectly legal, and had been for centuries...[/quote]

What does legality have to do with it?  It's a huge, immoral stain on our country's history, and I wouldn't want to give the appearance of celebrating that "bygone era."  People that do make themselves look either clueless or racist.[/quote]

At the time, slavery was considered neither illegal nor immoral. The claim that "it's a huge, immoral stain on our country's history," is [i]entirely retroactive[/i]. You are projecting today's values back on past centuries where they have no relevance or application. The idea that we, today, should feel guilty for things [i]we did not do[/i], and for which the actual perpetrators neither did [i]nor should[/i] (remember: neither illegal nor immoral) feel any guilt, is absurd and insane.

There is no "stain" on me or on 2019 America from antebellum slavery. [b]Nobody alive today had anything to do with it, or suffered from it.[/b][/quote]

No one alive today suffered from slavery?  It's funny how some people engage in magical thinking around slavery--as if its effects simply disappeared after slavery ended.  No acknowledgement of Jim Crow, segregation, lynching, redlining, or any of the other ways that systemic racism has played out in the ensuing years.

Btw, this woman who helped ring the bell to open the NMAAHC in 2016 is the [u]daughter[/u] of a slave.  Her father escaped from slavery as a young man.  Perhaps she may have been directly affected by it?  Slavery is not such an old relic, even though so may wish to think of this way.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ruth-odom-bonner-who-rang-freedom-bell-president-obama-passes-away-100-180964714/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-bonner-slave-daughter-museum_n_57e6d472e4b0e80b1ba26222[/quote]

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