think about it

  Perhaps people have enslaved others not based on the color of their skin, but upon their desire to accumulate wealth. That is to say could it be the motivation was a selfish one, a means to increase their net worth without having to do the work themselves. I know that isn't what is being promoted as the cause of all that, the narrative is one of race, but slavers never really cared about what race a person was. What slavers cared about was the availability of those people. Whether they were acquired through conquest or barter made no difference, the motive was always profit. Every race on earth has been enslaved at one time or another. It was the Portuguese however that took that to new heights beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was the Portuguese that first bought slaves from the African continent to sell to Europeans. And yes it was a trade agreement. The Portuguese paid the Africans in guns and goods and in turn sold their "inventory" to others in Europe. That trade continued for hundreds of years. It's true that slaves were first brought to the north American continent, in what is now the United States in 1619. Slavery was already a common practice around the world by then, nothing new, just business as usual. And all of that had nothing to do with skin color, it had to do with commerce. It was the disruption of that commerce that was a cause of the civil war in America.. There were those businessmen, most notably the large plantation owners, that required a large labor force. Slaves were the most economically viable solution at the time. In the mid 1800's innovations in machinery was reducing that need. But machinery was expensive, tended to break down and required skilled workers to maintain and operate. Many smaller plantation owners couldn't afford that and resisted the changes. Eventually that led to succession. Those owners wanted to keep the old way, keep their slave labor, and maintain their profits. All of that had nothing to do with the color of anyone's skin. 

 That is just a brief history of slavery, not just in America , but in the world as a whole. Mans' inhumanity to man knows no bounds. It is only through the establishment of societies that man attempts to restrict. That is if you wish to call that a restriction. Man left to his own devices is not a good thing. Once it was realized that man had to work for the things he required his good nature quickly evaporated. Consider the Biblical account. Man wasn't supposed to eat the forbidden fruit in the center of the garden. He did and at that moment knew shame. Later Cain kills Abel out of jealously. In the Bible story of Joseph the brothers throw another brother into a pit and sell him to the Ismaelites. They were all the same race/color. So we can see by that the motivation is not the color of the skin. 

 You know it is an amazing thing really. Slavery in America only lasted 82 years. After that, it was abolished throughout the land. That came about because of the vision, the thought, and the rational thinking of our founding fathers. They stated a simple truth when they wrote, all men are created equal. Now that didn't mean everyone gets the same, is treated the same, or is created with equal circumstance, just that each man feels the same emotions as the next. We have to understand that those writing those words were risking their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in doing so. They realized the import of that. Some of them had relied upon slavery to increase their wealth and position in society. When government began to interfere in those profits, taxation, those same men reacted. It didn't happen overnight. There were many years of unrest, of discontent with the crown. Severing ties with the power and the wealth of the crown was risky business indeed. There was no army to defend ourselves with, just a bunch of militias scattered across the colonies each one loyal to their own colony and financial interests. It was during this colonial period, when we were still under British rule, that slavery as an institution began to be questioned. In fact, during the American revolution many slaves were freed and fought for the fledging nation. By 1783 when the treaty of Paris was signed and the United States of America was born, the practice of slavery was losing favor in the northern colonies. But the southern portion of the new nation, that area having the large plantations still required that labor pool. It took 82 years and a civil war for that to be abolished altogether. 

 The economic impact was staggering to the south. The original solution was to provide the freed slaves with land and a means to support themselves. It was known then, and it still true to this day, land ownership is the key to success. But then Lincoln was killed and Johnson became president. Being sympathetic to the southern plight that plan was revised. The land was returned to the original plantation owners, those that had revolted against the nation wishing to maintain their "business" as usual. Their response was to create the sharecropper system, the closest legal device to slavery that they could muster. Again that had nothing to do with the color of anyone's skin, it had to do with cheap labor. In the north ruthless businessmen created the ghetto's. Doesn't make any difference what color you are either, you can live in the ghetto. It isn't about color, it is about control. Control a persons ability to produce a product, any product at all, and in doing so you control his life. The easiest method of control is dependence. 

 That desire to control persists to this day and will continue. There are those in the country today that wish to mobilize certain groups to action. They are presenting that action as something of benefit to those doing the work, they are insisting it is an entitlement! What they aren't saying is, that entitlement makes you dependent upon us. But the real truth is, it is to benefit themselves, to increase their wealth and profits. Indeed the ultimate objective is power. It has always been so and you aren't about to change that. We wrote the Constitution to empower the people! Government is not to control the people, people are to control the government. Were it not so, slavery may very well still exist in America. Slavery still exists in many parts of the world today and it isn't based on the color of anyone's skin. It is based solely in control. And so we have to question who is controlling the narrative? Who stands to gain the most? 

 Our government, a government of the people, has written in its founding documents the premise that all men are created equal. It did take many years and is an ongoing process to codify that. It has come one step at a time. Today there are no legal barriers to anyone based on the color of their skin. There are no legal barriers based in race, creed, national origin, sexual preference or gender. What are the barriers today? The barriers are what can not be seen. Can we know the heart of another? That is to say can we say your actions are based on the color of another's skin? No, the reality is we can't. No the fact is people react, for the most part, to increase their own status, wealth, or power. And that doesn't change based on the color of your skin. 

 Power, real power is dependent upon control. You have to have the means to control the population through whatever means you can. It could be by brute force, the dictators. Comply or die! It could be by creating a dependence upon that power. ie: socialisms. In that system everyone is dependent upon government. Both of those systems will work, by varying degrees, and last only for as long as the people are willing to comply. The founders were all well aware of that and hence the Republic was formed. Government by the people. If there is a flaw in the system it is a simple one. In our republic you are not to be dependent upon the government, but rather act independently. In that matter the government doesn't control you, you control government! But you have to do it yourself! 

 Look all I'm trying to say here is, don't vote yourself into dependence! It is your choice here in America. Don't vote that choice away for a momentary gain. Many have done just that for over 150 years. Those same voters are now complaining about being dependent. That, according to some, is the reason to vote for the ones that created that dependence in the first place. Rather an amazing thing isn't it? Think about it.