Slavery isn't inherently racial and it is generally an economic (and often cultural) thing. But the Transatlantic slave trade and American slavery specifically were most definitely racial.

• Was it racial to the slave sellers, Africans? Was it racial for the same boats that carried those African slaves also carried white Irish slaves? It wasn't racial, that is just a politically correct meme to keep the extortion going.

None of that has anything to do with the comparison between Roman slavery and American slavery and why the latter is obviously more relevant and talked about a lot more in America. Completely irrelevant.

• About the ancient slave trade, you are correct. About the American slave trade, you are completely incorrect. It has everything to do with it.

One would have to be blind or stupid to deny that it had a huge impact on the development of modern American society.

• If you are talking about the way it has transformed into a political ideology of extortion, I think we are on the same page here. If not, see the aforementioned point about all the money, time and resources the west have put in to give them an advanced standing among others, which is clearly still not enough after 150 years.

It's also important to note that black people didn't exactly receive equal treatment as soon as slavery ended.

• Sure they did. Everyone was treated like shit. The Indians, the Irish, The Chinese, the Italians, the Portuguese. Everyone - it is just one group is still bitching.

The Civil Rights era also didn't solve all the issues for the black community.

• It wasn't supposed to. They are supposed to solve their own problems, like every other group out there. You know, equality and all that.

To get back to the original point about black pride and black history, it's about a lot more than slavery.

• Yepp, it is about political extortion and trying to instill white guilt for something no one was around for and thus culpable for. Also, I am sure it is also for Al Sharptons retirement plan, and a manner to keep democrats getting elected.

Limiting it to that and saying they need to get over something that happened over 100 years ago demonstrates ignorance of what the thing you're arguing against is actually about.

• Not at all, it is fully realizing that no one needs to get over anything anymore, because no one alive today had to deal with any of it. Furthermore, it acknowledges that it is merely a political tool to instil an unfounded since of guilt that they had no hand in, while at the same time giving "victim" status to people that were not, and are not victimized by anything other than their own actions.

Also, I don't think 150 years is as long a time as you seem to think it is.

• I think it is exactly 150 trips of the earth around the sun. Which is much longer than any humans life.

John Tyler was president in the 1840s and he has living grandchildren. It's not ancient history.

• Yeah, My grandfather was born in the 1870's more or less. He was an indentured servant, and came "this" close to being rounded up as a slave. Of course that doesn't, and shouldn't, give me any special compensation. But then again, it can't be used for political advantage, so there is that.

And this is relevant to the topic ... how exactly?

• Easy, if you were worried or concerned about slavery then you would be worried or concerned about the places it is still happening. You aren't, you aren't I assume, because it doesn't give a political advantage. So you'll beat he feelz war drums, speak about all this hard done by politically expedient people - while ignoring they weren't the only ones, they weren't the only ones involved at that time, ignoring the African involvement in the entire process, ignore all the give backs that have been done over the past 80+ years, and ignore that more people are being dealt with the same way today and label that as "how is that relevant"? For all these reasons and more, I didn't need "mind reading powers", to see what is really being done here, and in most places. It is about politic's, it is about using past guilt for todays political gain and the great thing is more and more people are seeing through it every day.