And I say it's everywhere, especially in the United States. We just call in racisim there instead of classism.

As for slavery, until the 1950's and in many cases later, these people were ruled by the British and other colonials where they were treated as an inferior people. We have no one to blame but ourselves that when we finally let them control their own lives they imitated us to perfection.

"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." Ambrose Bierce