Tafoya is a pro's pro and unfortunately this is just a sign of the times. There are many accounts of slave owners who treated their slaves very well, but we only see and hear of the accounts of slavery portrayed in shows like Roots.
If you think about it, doesn't it make logical sense. I mean back a couple hundred years, if you had some wealth and wanted to start a business, which was mostly agricultural based, you needed people. There were not neighborhoods of houses or condos where you lived, so if you wanted people to come and work for you, you kind of had to create living spaces. You may have had land, but little else in the way of paying people so providing a home to someone was their pay -- sounds alot like slavery doesn't it?
For those ever really interested in learning look up former sports talking head Jason Whitlock, a black man who has a very realistic version of how things are.
There was nothing wrong with the old apprenticeship paradigm, in and of itself. It was certainly abused by many of the men that trained a potential guild member, though. Serfdom could have been reasonable if not abused nearly constantly. (Heck, we could end up revisiting it if Gates keeps gobbling up farmland!) Some slave owners may have been benevolent at heart, and
our Founding Fathers certainly engineered the END of Slavery in America right within the Constitution FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE USA, but owning another human being NEVER "makes sense". Not to me. The "lesson" here is that the more control one has over others, the easier it becomes for a mere human to rationalize abusing that power. Fuctbook, the lying asz legacy media, the public health apparatus, the one-sided nature of today's teacher training - they all show this happening today.
I can understand the "eternal priorities" of the Apostle Paul writing to Christians, "If you are a slave, remain a slave....", but that is about as far as I can tolerate slavery at any time, anywhere, of anybody. Empathy, true empathy,
may be the highest human function, after all.
Jason Whitlock is awesome. He has become a "personal hero" for me. Pray for his strength and wisdom, please, if you do pray.