ok so lets say that the only people who can vote are college graduates... sounds fair... </sarcasm>
and while i am not at all saying the slave trade is a good thing, it was in fact a horrible thing, i am not saying whites are 100% to blame. i also dont think it set a "moral high ground" by whites freeing blacks. in a way, it was done selfishly. i read somewhere, that abraham lincoln was hoping to abolish slavery so that the blacks would be able to vote for him and get him the presidency. the legitimacy of that is questionable, but who knows.
maybe blacks would still be slaves today if whites hadnt taken action against it. maybe blacks would have revolted and became free anyways. maybe cows will come down from another planet in flying saucers wanting to take all our jell-o and ice cream back to their planet for safe keeping. we really just dont know, do we?