Slavery was inherently a system of brutality and coercion in which beating and the breakup of families through the sale of individuals were commonplace. ... Today there is still racial profiling, police brutality and other forms of segregation, but it's less noticeable due to corrective implementation to laws that are still being reviewed. ...
Try to picture for just a moment what the United States would be like if during our civil war, a pro-slavery, but otherwise uninvolved, country had started aiding the southern confederates but in the process destroyed our country's villages, land, and people. Imagine that this hypothetical country had not been asked by the South for assistance, but simply interfered because the morals in their land disagreed with the idea of freeing slaves. This purely metaphorical circumstance is almost parallel to the very real events involving America in Vietnam from 1956-1975. The longest war in Ameri...
