Originally Posted by ilnjscb

Be that as it may, you could not be sentenced to hard labor or jailed, or executed for being of black African descent anywhere in the world. In African countries today, for instance Mauritania, northern Nigeria, southern Somalia and Sudan, you could be executed for being gay. Question: is slavery worse than execution? What would you choose, faced with that? Everyone says they'd prefer death, but strangely enough real people who have been faced with that choice often choose slavery.

I am saddened by the constant "greatest victim" fight. What it really means is, you don't deserve as much remuneration as I do. The truth is, wherever someone is denigrated or punished for being who they are, a great wrong is being committed. Every person should work for people to be judged by their actions and the content of their character.

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