Thank You Martin Bashir

The diaries kept by proud slave owners and torturers are the truest slave narratives to be found.  Slaves didn't often repeat the real horrors they suffered. In my family, the stories were only barely
whispered if someone who had suffered mentioned a circumstance. No one was allowed to bring
up or question any indignities forced on a family member during or immediately after slavery.
I appreciated Mr. Bashir's honesty and frankness because he wears the mantle of an observer who
has no investment in either exaggerating, or providing cover, for the nightmare American slavery was in the U.S.
Many in any in 19th century America, however, fought a war for the rights to continue these practices. Many in 21st century America seem eager to do the same again. They've even asked the
government for drones.
People still praise the antebellum south represented in the diary Mr. Bashir presented in his
broadcast of November 15, 2013. The diary was that of an owner-animal.
There are those in this country who want very much to return us all to barbarisms the states, not our
country, wish us to endure. Justice John Roberts is one of those people.
Many Americans would that any state in this country could legally treat citizens of the United States
of  America any way a state should choose to treat them.
And we have yet to name the barbaric ones, unless it's to call them "owners"
Slavers kidnapped people from their homes and families and stuffed them into crushing ships' holds.
Slaves were forced to work, while having all wages stolen from them, and all family continuously
subject to "owners".
The time has passed long ago for us to call these inhuman vicious some other thing than "owner"
or "master".
No group on this planet could have failed to amass fortunes using the tactics these people used.
And those tactics required only a tiny modicum of intelligent thought.