Originally Posted by
Bham1982
This is simply not true. There were black slaveowners in the U.S. Historians agree on this point. I would wager there were far, far more black slaveowners overall than Jewish slaveowners, given that there were few Jews in the American south, no slaves in Europe [[where 90% of Jews lived) and blacks lived in tons of places with far more slavery than the U.S. [[Africa, Brazil, Caribbean and the like).
Why it's relevant, I have no idea. Why someone chooses a certain path in life in 2015 has no direct connection to the horrors of the slave trade, and no connection the race or religion of those involved. What does it matter if slaveowners were Vietnamese or Pakistani or Martians for that matter?