Real,
My comment was about systemic racism being an essential, foundational component in the establishment and development of the US.
The bondage, slaughter, and degradation of millions of people was and is not “incidental” relative to the foundation and expansion of the United States; its economy, legal system, and culture were built on slavery and genocide, and 400 years after the arrival of African slaves and 200 years after 100+ Native American tribes were wiped out, there has been no formal political or social acknowledgement of this travesty(unlike Germany or South Africa regarding their national, historical issues with genocide/systemic racism), much less any concerted effort to apologize or make amends for said injustices.
I find it ironic that people seeking religious freedom justified their brutal marginalisation, enslavement, and murder of others with the belief that it was their God-mandated-and-blessed destiny and RIGHT to do so.

Yes, INCIDENTAL “accompanying but not a major part of something.”

It was INCIDENTAL to the civil war with Britain and NOT the Raison d’être for forming the USA as a seperate country. Glad I could teach you some English and history.

“hypocritical bastards” is right, though IMO, not intentionally; they just don’t look and THINK about the things, they’re too busy doing the busy-work of being scientologists, reading the reams of “inspirited revelation” and delving into their own fabricated space-opera stories for some insight into why they’re as messed up as they are told they are.

He didn’t know any better — and didn’t WANT to know any better — ANYthing which could upset his prejudices. He thunk what he thunk because that was what he thunk was right. I guess it made him feel better somehow, the poor bigot.

Real:
Addendum to my other reply to you.
Suggesting/inferring that African slave-trading before Europeans arrived on the African continent was as widespread, normal,and brutal as it was AFTER they arrived is just..heinous and factually incorrect.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance forced movement of people in recorded history. From the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, over twelve million (some estimates run as high as fifteen million) African men, women, and children were enslaved, transported to the Americas, and bought and sold primarily by European and Euro-American slaveholders as chattel property used for their labor and skills.
And let’s not even get into the Papal Bull that basically stated it was God’s will that the African continent was destined to be ruled and “uplifted” (i.e. pillaged, plundered, and phucked)by the white Christians of Spain and Portugal…

He didn’t know any better in the ’20’s.
He didn’t know any better in the ’30’s.
He didn’t know any better in the ’40’s.
He didn’t know any better in the ’50’s.
He didn’t know any better in the ’60’s.
He didn’t know any better in the ’70’s.
He didn’t know any better up until the day he kicked the bucket in ’86.
Pretty much sums up a life long racist if ever there was one.

Real,
The “root of the problem”? “Slavery was incidental”?
Oh boy.
Your avatar name is ironic.

Actually Mark, the USA was first part of Britain which had slavery. Slavery was incidental. The primary slavers were Africans who engaged in tribalism in the extreme for millennia. Getting wealthy off of selling other tribes into slavery. That was going on for CENTURIES before Britain and the US had slaves. So go to the ROOT of the problem. 😉

Hey Valboski,
American history is the story of systemic racism.
For insight into systemic racism in American law/jurisprudence,check
out DRED SCOTT’S REVENGE: A LEGAL HISTORY OF RACE AND FREEDOM IN AMERICA by Andrew Napolitano.
America’s constitution was conceived and written by slave owners. The country’s expansion was built on land theft and genocide(systemic, unapologetic racism).
And so on…

Holy sh*t! Having lived in Southern Calif my whole life, I cannot imagine dealing with such freezing cold. Do you have plans or the means to maybe move out of Alaska in the future?

Sorry you have to deal with that. Sounds quite brutal.