Abolish

The Myth of Their Inferiority

It started one hundred and sixty-nine years before the country began in 1776. When that labor system was legally abolished in 1865 it was 258 years old. But nothing was done to abolish the lie that made it possible. That myth says that European Americans (“white” people) are morally and intellectually superior to Africans in America (Unpaid Laborers).

The myth was necessary to keep white people and Unpaid Laborers totally separate. It was necessary to convince everyday people that whatever happened to a slave was ok. It was necessary to keep the slave driven economy of the 13 original colonies and the new United States of America going. It was necessary to give “good” people an acceptable way to participate in and benefit from a society built on slavery with a “clear” conscience. Of course, there were those that knew it was wrong and said so. But the nation as a whole went along with it.

Despite those efforts, their indomitable spirit and inherent humanity, intertwined with every aspect of their unpaid work, enabled the birth, growth and survival of the most successful nation in modern history. It’s time to abolish the myth.