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154. I cant help but to see irony in this

Bear with me: African-Americans were kidnapped and brought to these shores in inhumane conditions for the purpose of being sold into slavery. Laboring in a degrading system, in conditions of deprivation and brutality over generations, these slaves became the backbone of Southern agricultural and industrial wealth and political power, such that when threatened with restriction of expansion and abolition of the "peculiar institution", these same states fomented a treasonous revolt against the United States in pursuit of separation, which even today they express no regret or remorse.
After the suppression of the unsuccessful treasonous revolt, the former victims of the slavery system are abandoned by the Republican party through an unholy compromise in the election of 1876 with Democratic southern segregationists, remove Federal troops from the south which results in the return to power of these same treasonous agents with restored rights and privileges to rewrite every southern state constitution denying rights to the former slaves and their decedents for generations to come. Adding salt to the wound, if you will, these former slave masters, with the objective of maintaining a social and economic caste system based upon white supremacy, with the blessings of the United States government, advance the notion that these former slaves are: "lazy", "shiftless", "untrustworthy", "infantile", "unintelligent", "brutish", "promiscuous" and so on. These notions, are echoed even today in the modern media and the "dog whistle" words of political speeches. (http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/)All under the banner of "capitalism". Where even today Black people suffer detrimental, debilitating effects.

Now today, white Americans, descendants of immigrant workers from Europe and other countries in this hemisphere, whose contributions and hard work resulted in the greatest period of productivity and invention ever seen in history. Whose grandmothers and grandfathers endured harsh and brutal working conditions, low pay, inhumane and unsafe living conditions, fought and died for reasonable reforms that were resisted by the same people who fomented treasonous rebellion earlier. The descendants of the immigrants who now look down upon those descendants of slaves because of their perceived status are now being called "lazy" and "overpaid" even though they are more productive and take fewer vacations than their European counterparts. What would be considered "basic" things in any industrialized society like health care, retirement benefits, Social Security, are considered "luxury" and "entitlements" by the ideological descendants of the former slave holders. Instead of fomenting treason by secession, this time they're doing it by just shipping the jobs to other countries; "outsourcing" they call it. If weren't so serious, I, a Black American male, would find this situation deliciously ironic; that white Americans now find themselves in the same boat as Black Americans.