For eons, our ancestors of all races had chosen at one time or another to place their fellow man into slavery as common practice of a less civilized world.

Fortunately, over the centuries, man’s incivility to man, at least in the form of slavery, lessened.

The reasons man progressed toward civility are probably a conglomeration. Some might credit a gradual and subtle religious awakening. Others may believe it a continuing positive mutation of our collective mentality. In any case, it was, and continues to be, a process of becoming more civilized; a "civilize-ation of our civilization".

And thanks to that civilize-ation, slavery was finally abolished globally in the past century except in parts of West Africa where chattel slavery is still practiced.

Apparently, unbeknownst to some (the letter author, maybe?), victimization as slaves was never confined only to blacks or black Americans. Blacks were only the most recent remaining victims. And in sincere deference to their inhuman exploitation, ironically in an historical context, they were to become the most fortunate of all slaves.

In contrast to the terrible fate of our white and black and other ancestor folk who became the first historically accounted slaves, history’s most recent slaves, black Americans, enjoyed the fate of participating in the last historical remnants of slavery and were freed as they witnessed its ultimate abolition.

If any apology is due to Blacks by white American citizens, it should be for the tragic post-slavery period endured by Blacks after the end of the Civil War when slavery and oppression was in clear violation of the principals of a nation recently civilized.

Even worse, or as worse, the freed black slaves suffered an abysmal degree of bondage and manipulation by their saviors from the day of their freedom.

With the abolition of slavery should have come a sense of gratitude, rejoicing and the immediate governmental institution of a Marshall Plan-type program of economic main streaming of black Americans into the work force.

Sadly, that didn’t happen; victims of slavery becoming victims of a nation-wide political scam.

Instead of joining the work force, black Americans, slowly but surely, became major political pawns, catered to and maneuvered by politicians, North and South, White and Black, through vote-getting legislation of incentive-destroying "handout" monetary subsistence.

The multitude of firmly entrenched election-inspired welfare programs became a way of life never intended by the citizenry. This way of life is represented, protected and continues to flourish today through the efforts of a most powerful, demanding and threatening PAC of clever opportunists, a la Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton, who evolved from the welfare chaos.

Finding it easier each day to demand and receive whatever of politicians at all levels and the kowtowing of the liberal media to their each and every whim has encouraged further demands, the latest being their assault on all things "Confederate." And be assured that it won’t end here. The liberal politicians and their black constituent "leaders" are on a roll — while those "black folks" are happy at the pork trough.

These black folk "Slavery Card" holders have become the foundation of a successful socialist movement embedded throughout the nation that most politicians and liberal media still continue to laud publicly, but privately fear, having found themselves as the folks being scammed.

I’m convinced that the "slavery issue" itself is passé and black folks have somewhat allayed their decades-old vindictiveness over slavery. But then their "leaders" preach, "black folks just can’t afford to "fold" that fetching card."

So, the consequence of slavery, per se, is not the problem. It’s the resultant, learned "Slavery Card" scam dealt by politicians and black folks being cleverly played against one another, both whose decks are stacked in no one’s favor, in the end.

If I was a black folk, I’d fold my "Slavery" hand and I’d start playing "Reality."

I’d deal Jackson and Sharpton out.

I’d deal in, for starters, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Jesse Lee Paterson, Star Parker and Michelle Malkin.

With this deck, black folk can shed the slave mentality and demand a hand instead of a handout — and get it."

An apology to Blacks for slavery in the past is not appropriate, required, elicited or welcomed.

Any measure taken by white folks, today, to implement such a farce, is simply utilizing the same old post-slavery, vote buying "Slavery Card" of old, to camouflage their existing (today) usage of blacks as pawns as they have been since the Civil War.

Instead of offering an apology to Blacks for slavery during the historically uncivilized past, to women who weren't allowed to vote, American Indians and maybe eventually to include the Caveman, many would suggest that the giddily benevolent politicos end their personal system of today’s slavery and begin to free their black, red and other constituents whom they continue to oppress by design – in order to then relieve their oppression via handouts.

Many will not be holding their breath.