Thanks to James over at It's A Mystery for pointing to this article by John Spong, the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. Spong takes Fox's Bill O'Reilly to task for suggesting that slavery was a good thing for African-Americans:
Interrupting [Al] Sharpton regularly, as he does every guest, [Bill] O'Reilly demanded a yes or no answer to what he regarded as his ultimate test of truth. "Are black people better off today in America than they are in Africa?" The assumption behind such a question is that blacks should be thankful that they were forcibly enslaved, since it proved to be good for them.
| Slavery | Race & Ethnicity | Al Sharpton |
