I suspect the old southern plantation owners reminded their black slaves just how lucky they were to be in America and not still living in a land where members of a neighboring tribe would try and kill them or where some hungry lion would eat them when they walked from their mud hut. And finally to be in a land where they could get water from a well and not have to worry about venturing to the nearby river and winding up in the belly of a crocodile. Now today, modern day Democrats are reminding black ghetto residents how fortunate they are not to be on a southern plantation just one step ahead of the overseer's whip. And just how blessed they are to have their basic needs provided by benevolent Democratic politicians. But wait, didn't the old slave owners provide their slaves with their basic needs, too! Oh well, progressives don't want to hear these unpleasant facts. And for those blacks who thought that having a black President would somehow get them out of poverty and the ghetto----well it just didn't happen despite all the promises Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders made.
