I pretty much agree 100% with Twisterdog's feelings on the subject. I did want to clarify on something said earlier about whites going in and dragging blacks off to be slaves. That is not at all how it happened. Whites bought black slaves from other blacks from warring tribes who captured them and sold them. Also that slavery has roots back to before the days of Christ and was practiced by various races and ethnicities. I don't profess full knowledge of every instance of slavery but I know it is referred to even in the Bible, and that Vikings and other warring/raiding peoples commonly took slaves as spoils of war. I think too many tend to think of slavery as only happening in the US during the civil war era and only were black peoples owned by whites.

Again I agree that there is no excuse for treating any person as less because of their race/sex/color, etc. etc. I also personally believe all people should have the same opportunity for employment and education based on their own efforts.