The reality is in 1787 that the South wanted Blacks to count as a WHOLE person (for representative purposes), while granting them NO political voice. While the North wanted Blacks to NOT COUNT as a person (for representative purposes) because they had no political voice.

Does this mean the North was somehow more racist than the South? Or that the South was actually MORE willing to recognize the humanity of Black people?

Bit of Royal Navy doggerel from the West Africa Station–anti slavery.
“Beware and take care
Of the Bight of Benin.
There’s one comes out
For forty goes in.’

Wasn’t that bad, but far worse than other duties. Inshore work before the development of quinine was dangerous as hell.

It was said that Kwame Nkrumah suggested a giant statue of an Anopheles mosquito in downtown Accra to honor who kept them, more or less, free.

Speaking of the USSR, how many of the 15 quasi-independent republics of the USSR decided to join the new Russian Federation upon the demise of the USSR??
If diversity is so great, why did all these former republics get out of Dodge the first opportunity they had??

And check out what’s going on in Scotland and maybe Wales where there is agitation for independence from the UK.
Scotland is interesting because 7 PM’s of the UK were Scottish so it’s hard to claim they do not have a voice in the UK govt.
Perhaps the Scottish need to be reminded that diversity is good.

Hutu vs Tutsi, Mandela’s Xhosa vs Zulu, Kenyan elite vs deplorables, and so on and so forth. Lemon looked into the back… black hole… whore h/t NAACP and saw himself looking back. A “burden” h/t Obama of his own conception.

https://www.amazon.com/White-Gold-Extraordinary-Thomas-Million/dp/0374289352

Very interesting book.

But it appears you had better history instruction than some of us. While I considered my education in American and world history by or before 1967 as being decent enough, we did not happen to cover the numeric details on slavery nor much about the specific roles of the various Arab and African perpetrators, or the enslavement of Europeans from either the Atlantic coastal towns or the Caucuses or Balkans. I must have picked up such knowledge from Sowell’s articles or other sources.

Like so many things, some selected knowledge stays with you, while the rest just drifts away without additional reinforcement or need.

Other people ‘acknowledged the validity’ of her remarks, to which I did not object. The moderator’s description of her made it sound as if she was a palace spokesman. She is not.