Your 81 year old relative may have talked to a slave.. (It's not hundreds of years in the past)

[SoCalDem]

A person born in 1845 would have been a slave for 10 years .

In 1935 they would have been 80 years old..

Your elderly relative would have been 10 years old, when that slave was 80 years old. They could have spoken..

News people love to remind us that "slavery was HUNDREDS of years in the past, and people should be "over it" by now."

I'm just reminding people that there are people alive today who SPOKE with a slave...not a slave-descendant...an actual slave..

People all over the world are keeping past events alive for THOUSANDS of years ( think Jesus,Mohammed, etc)..so why would this stain on our souls just vanish so quickly?

It hasn't and it won't ever..nor should it