You're all so far down the rabbit hole in defending the indefensible that you will define marriage as self-imposed slavery just to make a point.
Nobody here disputes that SLAVERY is abhorrent. Treating a human being as property, as a pet, as a farm working animal...is anathema to all of us.
To think....it was an immigration 'problem' that made slavery possible in the first place.
It was a labor shortage....not a case of white Colonists wanting to master over another's life.
Have been playing detective in my mind...as I'm wont to do when being empathetic about a person.
#1. Bundy's not a racist. At least not in a sense that he would look down on a black man in front of him. Rather it seems, he's using MLK's criteria. Character vs color.
#2. Bundy's use of the word "negro" doesn't make him a cultural idiot. A while back, we talked about "pop" vs. "soda". Depends on where you're from and where you lived.
#3 Bundy is not a LIV. He's sufficiently aware of the plight of the American black and their economic cost to the government. He is aware of blacks' effect on crime statistics....nationally, state and local. Just like we are aware.
You could probably pick twelve random families living in a crime, gang infested project in NY or Chicago right now with no future, no safety, no hope of getting out.
I'd bet money that more than half of them would work for no wages for free room and board and a guarantee of safety and an education.
One is voluntary...the other isn't. Both are slaves.