I was just being facetious. I was exaggerating for effect. Of course I don't believe in slavery but I am saying that the white race has always been the dominate race in last 500 years and that's not by accident. We are a very smart, determined and powerful group of people. Stop feeling guilty about everything and kissing the asses of every other race out there to get along. Point taken. Actually, I don't feel guilty about anything to do with other races. Slavery as an institution is wrong though any way you slice it. You defeat a country in battle, then either put the survivors to the sword or make peace with them. Don't forget that we had indentured servitude for many of the Scotch-Irish in the South as well and the slave owner's mindset is not a very social one.    Slavery is also stealing from the middle class for the sake of the upper classes. The jobs that the slaves had should have gone to whites under fair conditions and pay. Another poster made the parallel between slavery in Rome, the destruction of the middle class, and the ensuing end of the Republic.    I'm of the mind that having to deal with blacks on a daily basis, even in the capacity of prison guard or steward makes all the participants subsequently dumber as a result of being exposed to any sort of negro behavior.