Legacy of Lies

Tennessee state Representative Brenda Gilmore wants the state of Tennessee to apologize for slavery. This is a reparations ploy. Slavery has existed forever-slaves continue to be held in Saudi Arabia and Sudan. White Europeans were enslaved by the thousands by the Barbary Coast pirates. How do you think so many red-haired people came to be born in North Africa? Ever looked at National Geographic photos of all the red-heads in the Riff tribe. Involuntary servitude was common for whites early in America who arrived as bond servants. Whites fell under indenture and even fiefdom as tenant farmers. Thomas Sowell eloquently chronicles the slave-taking by Africans though his scholarship is largely ignored by black racists who fervently believe slavery was a one way street. Let's just go around with mea culpas and reparation payments all day, every day; eventually someone in government who has already confiscated so much of my money may even cut me my reparation check.