POV - Traces of the Trade . Film Clip | PBS 2008

[castroy64]

Yawn. I think that African-Americans and a few neurotic whites have milked this slavery-thing for all that it's worth.

Quit whining and get over it already.

[tanekad]

I am reading the book "Inheriting the Trade" that one of the 9 participants wrote. It is a very good read. This family has had this guilt passed on to them by their ancestors(same as many slave families passed on their anger and mentality to their descendants) and I commend them for tackling the issue. Now they can finally lay that guilt to rest.

[actutus]

Blaming those now alive for the crimes of the past is an abuse of history. It's illogical and downright immoral. They ought to go to China, and see the virtual slavery of those who make the clothes they wear; or to Central America and work to improve the peasant-like poverty of those who harvest the bananas they eat every morning. But doing that would face them with the moral implications of their everyday lives, when it is MUCH easier to discuss the wrongs of others who died centuries ago.

[englila]

the truth shall set you free-and pay us our reps as well

[ffairlane57]

The family is "too" white. They need to assimilate with the rest of the country instead of getting degrees at Harvard &Princeton and living so insular and elite.

[ultimatespider17]

and why would do they do that?