Reposting the above now that I'm off the fone and its autospell hell:

Keith, I am not denying the horrors of white enslavement.

What I am saying is that the US enslavement of Blacks was worse.

One horror cannot cancel out the other. As human beings, we have to learn how to encompass both horrors-- in all their differences of type and degree. Most of all, white folks need to learn how to respect our own histories while not denying the vastly deeper harms Systemic Racism has done to all people. Systemic Racism hurts white folks, too.

~S~