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Congratulations to Stephanie Lepp, her project encourages 'critical-thinking' acuity at a undergraduate level. It informs people who naturally or innately feel emotionally drawn towards on side or other. Brilliant Glenn Loury, finds the 'emotional' perspective a fools erron. I say, so what? I still believe as Glenn does, that opposing views exist. The project from the left-leaning perspective will ultimately lose ground to a more conservative perspective. This usually happens with maturity. The project slavery debate is incorrectly founded. American slavery is an African, from Africa, originated subject. The African-American perspective is only a small part of the whole black slavery industry. Black slaves was the export product of BLACK AFRICAN LEADERS. They were, inter alia, sold to Arab dealers in Zanzibar. The east coast of Africa. This trade contined for hundreds off years and the Great Zimbabwe Ruins speaks to the zenith and downfall. Farrokh Bulsara, a.k.a Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar. Zanzibar Arabs bought and sold an estimated eighteen million black slaves. Most slaves were castrated. 'The project ' loses credability, if it does not adequately found the extent of the debate. African-Americans would be well advised to digest the whole truth about world slavery, especially African leadership culpability. Maybe a degree of informed introspection would be wise when discussing the US caucasion role in the liberation and current circunstances of African-Americans. Maybe it is time to drop the 'African' moniker and reject the mentality of victimhood. FGS just be American!

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