NYT 2009 American workers are overpaid. Gap must close. Happening now. Thanks, Obama.

[JDPriestly]

123. Sorry, but the white experience was the majority experience.

And in Detroit and other places in the North, African-American families also enjoyed the middle-class life.

My ancestors did not build their lives on stealing the labor and property of African-Americans.

My ancestors came to the US became abolitionists very early on, moved into the Midwest, lived alongside the Indians (one of them sold guns to the Indians even) developed land and farms, preached for abolitionism, fought in the Civil War to free the slaves and did not steal labor or property from African-Americans.

Our Declaration of Independence states that All Men are Created Equal.

It is actually women like me who were left out of the equality measure (and still are) for so long.

It may be unfair that so few African-Americans live the middle class life although many African-Americans do (certainly in my neighborhood they do in Los Angeles), but that does not change the fact that the trade agreements will make life in America even more unfair for African-Americans as well as white people. The trade agreements reduce wages and make labor less valuable.

It is illogical and inconsistent to favor trade agreements and then complain about the theft of labor and property because the very purpose of the trade agreements is facilitating the theft of labor and property by the corporations.