(06-28-2019, 02:54 PM)jj82284 Wrote: Russel Wilson recently made a comment about immigration and qualified his position with the trope "As a Descendant of Slaves" etc. etc. With all the talk of reparations, I thought it would be worth pointing out that slavery is probably one of the most ubiquitous institutions in human history.  If you go back far enough, everyone everywhere is descendant of a slave.  And historically Slavery isn't exclusive to blacks.  In fact, the term SLAVE is derivative of SLAV who were a European ethnic group more historically associated with Slavery than Africans.  

Why is the left allowed to perpetuate the FEELING that slavery only started in 1776 as an institution created by whites for blacks?

I think you're being obtuse.
Look at the context.
By your own words, he brought up slavery in the context of immigration: how people, our ancestors, arrived in this country.
From 1607 to the present, most people came to what became the mainland US of their own free will, looking for a better life.
But from 1619 to 1860, some people arrived there against their will, and nearly all of these were black.

It's true that if you go back far enough, there's a slave in every family tree and in every country.
But most of us have to go much further back than Russell Wilson does.  And most of those stories don't relate to immigration.  Russell Wilson's does.

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