I was thinking. Why doesn't someone or some group write a scholarly book about "what if African people were never enslaved". I tried looking for such a book but so far none exsists. People un-sypathetic to African-Americans often say that slavery was the best thing to happen to that race. I think this is unsubstantiated. I've also met many people from the South that contest the civil war would have happened anyway, w/ out the debate of slavery, this book should also explore that aspect too. It would also ask questions like "could the US have made it without slavery?" and "what if there was no civil rights movements in the '60s". African-Americans, and their contribution are so much of American history, and it's development, and betterment, an America without them is unthinkable. If groups black and white really took inventory of the historical events, and met half way much good could happen. This would also make the pro-reparation movement more accessible topic to people, white and otherwise, not something entirely ignored, but seen for what it is, from another view. It would also have to be written in a humanistic perspective, that would redefine the American Negro as someone with a good heritage, with 2 continents to call home. The President called slavery "the greatest crime in human history", I would hope a book, effort, and movement like this would be apart in making up, and correcting that blot in US history.

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