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Time For The Slavery Mongers to Go Away

Whenever there is any controversial issue taking place in our country there are two things you can count on: Someone will invoke the name of Adolph Hitler, Nazi Germany or Slavery. During the Cleveland Cavaliers controversy, Spike Lee stated that Cavs Owner Dan Gilbert was treating Lebron like a "runway slave". Just this week, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson compared the current NFL labor strife to "modern day slavery". Just when you thought there was just one bonehead slavery comment this week, Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall came up with this gem: "Adrian Peterson was correct in his analogy of this game...anyone with knowledge of the slave trade and the NFL could say that these two parallel one another". I'm sure that getting hit in the heard causes some damage so let's first give these dunderheads a definition of slave. Slavery is involuntary servitude and/or unpaid labor. Slaves have no choice or control over their lives