In those days, they called him Uncle Ben . . . .

Exactly, this is 100% all about money and power.

I don’t know, we call every bedroom other than the master bedroom, slave quarters at my house. It’s easier than calling them by my kids name, because both my kids are named Toby.

Saw somebody arguing on a YT short trying to say it's racist to laugh at Cain Velasquez's sponsor being a tool manufacturer. You think the sponsors didn't think "hm hard working mexican would make a pretty good rep for the company." That's damn near the point of it. It gets you talking and that means your ad dollars were better spent than on some random who doesn't conjure up the same mental images. I told him if you gotta read between the lines to find the racism then it's not there. If everywhere you go smells like shit then you should check the bottom of your shoes because if you see racism in everything then chances are you're the racist in the room.

The many's fear of the hurt feelings and whining of the few, many of whom make mountains out of non-existent mole hills, is a big part of what got us where we are today.

"Sorry, then, I'm not interested. I need a house with a master bedroom."

Yup! No more than like 1000 individuals at a time benefited from slavery when it was a thing, and even then a surprising number of slave owners, slave catchers, and slave sellers were black.

The insane left tries to pen this insane narrative that somehow every white family owned a slave or two. The reality is that keeping humans who don't want be there to be on one's property was an activity that required people to run a prison-like operation with extreme levels of overhead and a full staff of security. It was something only the wealthy could manage.

If one goes back to Angola and the Ivory Coast where most of the slaves came from, those people have practiced slavery, lifetime cattle-slavery, as long as any of them can ever remember. Today even they practice slavery though they are not supposed to. Its their culture. Africans are slavers. And no only do they take slaves for life, but the children of slaves are also slaves. Its an adaptation of genocidal tribal warfare where instead of outright killing entire families and all children, they take them as livestock and "kill" their family names by enslaving their entire bloodline.

I wouldn't go so far as to call the whole custom savage I mean, surely if I didn't have respect for their genocidal ways I would surely be a racist. See after all genocide is only bad when white people do it amirite?

The fun fucking thing is the practice of lifetime cattle-slavery wasn't even legal in the English commonwealth until an Angolan (aka black man) sued in the courts and won to keep a man for life. Before that it was the english custom of indentured service, which was to contract 2-7 years of service in exchange for either a loan, or to have the contractee pay for your passage to America. In fact vast numbers of whites were delivered to the America colonies under indentured contracts. But hey mentioning that Irish, even poor British citizens were routinely kidnapped off the street and pressed into indentured service in the colonies is now racism, weird.

So when the English encountered the Angolans and others in Africa they were literally offered and sold slaves as property as was the Angolan way but legally the English had to handle them as indentured servants, and so would release them after a term of service, hence that famous phrase "7 years a slave*

It was an Angolan colonist who actually sued on colonial english courts to keep another black man for life, that actually established the legal precedent of permanent slavery, and the right to claim the children of slaves as slaves. Which was the African way, and he actually argued the case that it was his culture to do so.

But this is history the left wants buried because its doesn't fit their Black=Goodly victims, white=absolute inherent evil narrative that best fits people with the mind and intellectual capacity of children.

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-fascinating-story-of-anthony-johnson-the-black-man-who-was-the-first-to-own-a-slave-in-the-u-s

It was probably likely such a custom was going to evolve from chattel-slavery/indentured service to full-bore slavery for life anyways, but it insanely curious that a black man was actually the catalyst for the transition.

And funny enough the English Commonwealth actually completely ended the practice of indentured service in the 19th century. Its also why they didn't have any slaves to free because they simply stopped the trade and over time the contracts expired.