Quote of the Day

The Europeans had done slavery differently.  They had set up plantations in the countries they had colonized, therefore not bringing their dirty work home ... The Americans, by bringing all their stolen people to the American continent, had done the equivalent of burgling a house, then keeping the stolen goods in their own home.  The Brits and the Europeans had also burgled but kept the stolen goods in someone else's house.  If you'd gone to England in the 1700s and shouted, "Hey!  Thieves!  You have stolen Black people," they could have smugly waived their arms across the quiet English countryside and said, "But where?"  They had separated themselves from the evidence of their misdeeds.

-- Gina Yashere, Cack-Handed, p. 84