PLO Ambassador Abdullah Abdullah: NO Palestine citizenship for residents of refugee camps

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

If it was legal, then where is the "sin"? If it was "wrong", then how can it be legal?

I already explained!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Then the US needs to pack up and get out of North America. African Americans need huge reparations etc.

Most, if not all, indigenous Americans and Africans in the US would agree with you.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Except it was legal per the terms of the day (the immigration)...thats why i used the term sin. Right and wrong don't always match the laws.

[mawilson 2,133]

So, time heals all wounds, and the victims of past atrocities just need to get over themselves?

Indeed.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Most, if not all, indigenous Americans and Africans in the US would agree with you.

I'm sure anyone who would get something out of it would.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Right and wrong don't always match the laws.

Morality is arbitrary. Morality changes from person to person. Laws determine what is right and wrong, in a society based on laws.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Morality is arbitrary. Morality changes from person to person. Laws determine what is right and wrong, in a society based on laws.

Sure whatever. You've gone off on such a tangent now its pointless to continue.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Notables:

Morocco was the very first nation to recognize a new nation, the United States of America.

The pirates that were condemned by Jefferson, had also been suppliers to slave traders in the US. Slave owners, such as Washington and Jefferson, benefited greatly from their other notorious business pursuits.

Not all slaves imported to the US were Black; many weren't. That the ancestors of many American White folk were once southern plantation slaves is an unacknowledged point of American history. It was not always the White slave owner who fathered light skinned slave children.

Thomas Jefferson: The Pirate War: To The Shores Of Tripoli

Within days of his March 1801 inauguration as the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson ordered a naval and military expedition to North Africa, without the authorization of Congress, to put down regimes involved in slavery and piracy. The war was the first in which the U.S. flag was carried and planted overseas; it saw the baptism by fire of the U.S. Marine Corps--whose anthem boasts of action on "the shores of Tripoli"--and it prefigured later struggles with both terrorism and jihad.

The Barbary States of North Africa--Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli (today's Libya)--had for centuries sustained themselves by preying on the maritime commerce of others. Income was raised by direct theft, the extortion of bribes or "protection" and the capture of crews and passengers to be used as slaves. The historian Robert Davis, in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800, estimates that as many as 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved. The Barbary raiders--so called because they were partly of Berber origin--struck as far north as England and Ireland. It appears, for example, that almost every inhabitant of the Irish village of Baltimore was carried off in 1631. Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe both mention the frightening trade in their writings; at that time, pamphlets and speeches by survivors and escaped slaves had a huge influence on the popular imagination. James Thomson's famously rousing 1740 song Rule Britannia, with its chorus about how Britons "never shall be slaves," was a direct allusion to the Barbary terrorism. . . .

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994562-1,00.html