Enslavement of Blacks. . .the worse? Options

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The issue of why African Americans/Blacks seem to think that the enslavement of their ancestors was so much more horrible than the enslavement of other people has come up many a time in discussions centered on race and ethnicity. So, I figured I'd just go ahead and start a discussion on the subject. Hopefully, one doesn't already exist.

So, my opinion.

I actually wrote a paper on this very subject last year for a history class I was taking at college. While I argued from an economical stand point in my paper, I think I'll go with the skin color issue here.

Every time I gain some new knowledge, my opinion seems to change, but I believe that the main reason the enslavement of Blacks is considered to be such a heinous crime and held above similar crimes is because it was based almost solely on skin color and the complete domination of an entire race thought to be some how deviant or against God in nature. I'll try to elaborate more on my stance once a discussion picks up.

[hotsoup]

^Thank you Steven.

I do think the amount of attention that African Americans have received is one of the reasons why people think about it so much. But, in all honesty, the attention has been well deserved because of the struggle for various rights that African Americans have had to go through just to be considered equal human beings.

As far as complaining goes, as much as I hate to say this, a lot of it comes from the older generation with help from the current generation that has picked up on their beliefs. Yes, there still are struggles happening, but they make it seem like if a Black person walks down the wrong side of the street, they're going to get mobbed or lynched. You also have politicians who turn every single event involving a black person and a white person into an issue of race and class.

Addressing the "Blacks sold Blacks into slavery point". Yes, that is true, but it did not happen in America. This entire thread is about slavery and how people perceive it here, in America.