CS: That’s very silly. Africans were enslaved in Africa by their fellow Africans. Europeans came to Africa and purchased these already enslaved Africans from other Africans. So their suffering began in Africa itself.
Do you imagine that had they stayed slaves in Africa rather than being purchased by Europeans they’d have done better in Africa? Of course not. The African-Americans are doing far far better than the former African slaves who never left Africa, by any account.
America helped the African-Americans in the long run. Virtually none of them want to return to Africa. There was once a movement to return them to Africa. They’re doing much better in the United States.
America has helped EVERY demographic group that came to the United States do much better economically, socially, politically, mentally and in any measure of happiness than they experienced in their homeland pre-America. Whether we’re discussing the Irish, Italians, Polish, Africans, Carribeans, Chinese, other Asians or Latin and South Americans.