It will be the height of irony

From the book, Slavery by Another Name

should a black man save the white man yet again.

My reading has taken me to a study of contrasts. The Family Farm was a major model of land development in Northern States from the Atlantic Coast west to the Pacific. These northern farmers prided themselves on individualism and self sufficiency. Mixed in with this individualism was a brand of Protestant, often Calvinistic, theology where morality was an individual thing.

Slavery by Another Name pictures the American development of the Old South as a white addiction to another man's labor from the very beginning. Owning slaves was part of the economic way just as owning cattle was in the North.

The Civil War didn't end this addiction to the power of another's labor. What developed in many places was Slavery by Another Name. Lest northerners take undue pride in themselves, US Steel was one of the biggest beneficiaries and perpetrators of this new slavery.

Read excerpts from the book here: http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/the-book/excerpt/

It will be highly ironic if President Obama will be able to save those who once enslaved his race.