Thank you for reading. It's interesting that while all people who read this acknowledge that slavery is wrong, there is more energy spent into absolving the founding fathers of these acts than to simply admit that they were imperfect humans who made horrific decisions when it came to the value of the lives of Africans.

Most want to immediately compare slavery in Africa to America, but there is no comparison. Americans are the only people who used chattel slavery and enforced it based on RACE, rendering one race inferior to another simply because of skin color.

African slavery, while also wrong, was not enforced with the expectation that it would be passed down through generations, nor were women repeatedly raped for the sole purpose of creating a greater slave population.

In addition, Africans were not subscribing to the belief that they were a free country built on a democracy where "all men are created equal". While there was slavery all around the world, only America was attempting to uphold the falsification that it was a true democracy while even the majority of its founding fathers who wrote this country's foundational documents were themselves owners of enslaved humans.

That is a hypocrisy that America refuses to acknowledge because if it does, then it has to talk about slavery, and we all know no one wants to do that.

There was nowhere in my article that called these men "bad people" however what they did and the hypocrisy of their actions was undeniably bad. There is no justification for it.

I am not concerned with breaking down slavery in other countries because my article was only speaking to AMERICA. Let's keep the discussion on that topic, or you are free to write your own on other countries and I'll be happy to read it.