[The Urban Sombrero]

He is a very impressive individual.

I personally did not see that President Obama's speech did much more than mention slavery and Jim Crow as historical reference that is part of this nation's racial mosaic.

In the same way poachers in Africa kill and kill and kill until extinction draws nigh for great beasts of the wild ("It's all about the money, boys"), so were human beings bought and sold to support a way of life in both Africa and America. The capture and sale of human beings is despicable. The enslavement, forced labor, and view of human beings as chattel is despicable.

I have never been thanked for lives lost in the Civil War. This fact does not bother me, nor appear as remotely relevant.