My Family's Slave.

Interesting story of a writer's family that came to America from the Phillipines and brought their slave with them in 1964. She lived as a slave in America until the author's mother died. In describing both his mother and father, he used the words:

"...moody, imperial, secretly fragile..."

Powerful words that describe a sense of superiority some feel over others used to justify deplorable behavior, inhumanity, and oppression. Personally, I have seen, and continue to see this mindset used in so many places and situations here in America. Not to justify slavery, but definitely to justify keeping people in a class system, in an organizational hierarchy, in devotion and belief to a false god, in an oppressed state with few choices and endless road blocks.