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What pisses me off about this whole deal is that certain groups would that we change time honored traditions (The Pledge, wording of The Declaration and Constitution to include "women", and not just men... you get the idea). These documents and traditions are part of our history. Those who would attempt to change our history are the true traitors. I say that the politically correct can kiss my a$$. Leave our history and traditions alone.

History cannot be changed. Traditions can. Slavery was not only an institution in the USA but a tradition as well. Bad traditions should be disposed with and replaced by good ones. It is as simple as that.

Traditions can be changed, but only if they need to be....

Slavery, yes, needed to be changed...

Changing all references of men to men and women, need not be changed. I agree that politically correct is crap. Being politically correct means that everybody is right, there is no wrong, and we are to bow to everybody....including ourselves...??

Hey, I have a novel idea! How about everybody who feels the need to shove their noses into another person's life/beliefs/business/sexuality/etc. MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS!?!?!

Neither the political left nor the right seem to understand that they both suck when it comes to respecting the rights of the individual to decide what is right for themselves.

Take your moral superiority and quietly practice it in private. Please and thank you.

Slavery was not only a tradition in the USA but in many other parts of the world.

In fact it continues in some parts of the world today.

The USA was the first country to do away with slavery.

Some countries have yet to get to that step.

Brian

Haiti officially abolished the institution of slavery imposed on Africans and their descendents in 1794, nearly 75 years before the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War.

Ok, then the USA was the second.

Doesn't change the fact that the USA is hardly the big slavery monster that some make it out to be.

Brian

Regarding Haiti, it appears that they don't have
"traditional" slavery but the working conditions
come close, according to this:

http://www.iabolish.com/today/background/worldwide-evil.htm

Brian

country/year slavery was abolished

1.Haiti/1794
2.British Colonies and England/1838
3.Sweden/1846
4.French Colonies and France/1848
5.Dutch Colonies and Denmark, Netherlands and Holland/1863
6.United States/1865

From: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/slavery1.html

Sometimes referred to as bonded laborers
(because of the debts owed their
masters), public perception of modern
slavery is often confused with reports
of workers in low-wage jobs or inhumane
working conditions. However, modern-day
slaves differ from these workers because
they are actually held in physical
bondage (they are shackled, held at
gunpoint, etc.).

odern-day slaves can be found laboring
as servants or concubines in Sudan, as
child "carpet slaves" in India, or as
cane-cutters in Haiti and southern
Pakistan, to name but a few instances.
According to Anti-Slavery International,
the world's oldest human rights
organization, there are currently over
200 million people in bondage.