Twenty years later, and before the British, Thomas Jefferson signed a law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States for the purpose of selling them.

The reason that only 5 to 6 percent of those enforceable removed from Afriica came to the United States was that slaves in the U.S. were given suitable treatment to allow for them to increase their number naturally.

Some have postulated that increase was made possible because the owners actually lived with their slaves. When humans live together in close quarters relationships came be developed. That is not to say that the owners in any way felt with their slaves as equals but by living with their slaves it is much hard to starve them or deny them medical treatment. Providing shelter was after all good for business.

Whereas in the West Indies and Brazil larger sugar plantations were staffed with African predominately male. They were worked to death by managers who reported back to European owners how much profit could be derived from a slave who was forced to acquire food on his limited time off and who when he became ill or crippled from maltreatment could easily be discarded and replaced. To the owner out of site out of mind was the defense against a probing conscious.

And so it is true that in 1860 at the beginning of the Civil War in the US, three fourths of the black population in the north an south America lived in the southern United States and that the majority by 80-90 percent were native some by many generations.

These immigrants though forcibly brought to these shores and whose children were literally bound by the code of slavery have lived in the Unied States for 400 years. They literally were yoked to this new land from the start of the European conquest.

American to the core. Have they endured hardship even after the yoke was removed, without dispute. But freedom has never been easy. Some fought for freedom literally. But those who were once long long ago brought here from Africa earned with blood, sweat and tears the right to hold their heads high and in a clear unyielding voice state, “I am an American.”

To name a few, there were the British, the Germans, the Dutch and of course the Spanish, fore, that was where it all started. With the “discovery” of the America, the first attempt of slavery were Native American. Unfortunately, for the Spanish it was unprofitable as the natives died quickly from disease and maltreatment. So the Spainish looked to Africa to fulfill the need of laborers on sugar plantations in the West Indies. In 1518 Spain’s King Charles V signed the first Slave Trader license.

Of the surviving 10,000,000 Africans coming to the New World only 5 to6 percent came to the shores of North America. The bulk of the Africans were taken to Brazil and the West Indies.

Once the independence from Britian was won, the United States began to ponder the question of slavery. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787the majority wanted to abolish the institution by including in The Constitution a prohibition against the importation of slaves.Those in disagreement threatened the formation of country founded on the principle of freedom, so a compromise was achieved. Written into the Constitution was a prohibition against Congress from writing any laws against slave trading for 20 years.

Before the American Revolutio, those involved in the slave trade could not be said to be American. To name a few there were British, or Dutch or Spankin

Of the approximate 22,000,000 who left the shores of Africa only 10,000,000 completed the voyage.

Americans do not understand what is available to them in terms of freedom and opportunity. Where you can advance based on hard work, skill, determination rather than where you went to school, your parents background or what clubs of churches you attended. If America is a racist society someone had better inform the world. There is no nation where I visited and lived where I wasn’t bombarded with questions and asked how immigrantants adapted to a new culture with such differences.

People always asked me how people who overseas were enemy for generations could live in peace and harmony. Doubt it, ask a Pole about Germans or Russians. Ask an Argentine about a Bolvian or Chilean or Brazilian. Ask a Scot about the English or Irish. Ask a Nigerian about a Ghanian. Ask a Zulu about a Swazi. Ask any Mexican from the Districto about someone from Chiapas.

As a foreigner how European corporations work even if you graduated from Havard Business School? Ask any Englishmen about his chances ofr advancement if you cannot attend Oxford or Yale.

Americans do not understand how ordinary people built Ford, Motorola, McDonalds, WalMart, Intel, Boeing, the list goes on and on. If we would focus on what God teaches us and would look at we all hold dear rather than what divides us Americans could and is the greatest place on earth. We need to limit our government and unlease the talents of people.

If we would reign in the hate mongers, race hustlers, exploiters, and those who profit from exploiting the seven sins our future as a people would be great.

I once asked my wife to descibe an American and she admitted she could not. Because America is a place where ideals define us, not race, nor class, not tribalism. We need to rediscover this or head down the paths of those nations that have become collections of competing tribes of savages.

Next is women’s history month. Once again, the same liberals who cry sexism by the right, are the same people who are sexist to conservative females. . Interestingly enough jealous progressive women are the worst enemies of other women (kinda like black on black crime.) Just think of all the pro-abortion women who bash female pro-lifers. Sad indeed.

What hypocrites these liberals be. Conservatives need to keep on calling them on this. They do not get a free pass.