Actually, in the big scheme of things, Krinkle is correct... If we go back throughout history we find a lot of slavery and oppression of people based on all kinds of criteria... Still going on today and parts of the world... And it's all shameful and inhumane... And wrong... None of it can be justified... None... Our (US) history falls very much into that category...

The elephant in the room is not that it happened or that we should just get over it... The elephant in the room is that we collectively are still suffering from it's consequences... That is the discussion we aren't having which has a lot to do with we the US has the highest poverty rate of any western developed nation...

B~