Frank, my man, you are just dead wrong.
blacks simply do not handle the heat better. period. this is not emotional, this is real life. sure, white people get sunburns. so what? anyone with any sense at all knows that black objects get hotter in the sun than white objects. so do things contained in black coverings (this would include, oh i don't know, anything. for example, water, metal, and i'm guessing, a person's organs and blood.) you probably learned that in fourth grade. do you seriously think that black skin is somehow different than everything else in the world? sadly, i'm guessing you do. this basic science indicates their is a reason why all those africans you see on the Discovery Channel are always resting during the heat of the day. they, much like black horses, dogs, etc. get hot faster than their lighter colored counterparts in the heat. (as you can figure out i'm sure, lighter items suffer other effects from the heat.)
secondly, White Tornado is right on the money about the real reasons for blacks being slaves. when you said:
whites couldn't handle the heat quite as well as indians, so let's have indian slaves; later, they found that indians couldn't handle the heat as well as black slaves, so let's have black slaves. you were dead wrong. again.
in fact, in addition to the reasons WT already has mentioned are these: 1) indentured servants cost more than slaves in the long run. in addition to the costs of shipping them across the ocean, they demanded better housing and treatment, and more importantly their "owners" were required by law to set them up with land, money, etc. when their seven years were up. they simply weren't cost effective. conversely, the black slaves, despite their exhorbitant initial cost, were much cheaper in the long term. primarily beacuse they were lifelong servants whose offspring were also slaves.
2)indians weren't bad slaves because they couldn't handle the heat. quite the contrary, native indians were much better adapted to the local climate than their counterparts. however, they had two shortcomings in the eyes of slaveowners... they had a strong tendency to succumb to non-native diseases such as influenza and also had a strong tendency to say f*** you to the white guys and disappear back into the woods.
that being said, the real point of your discussion thread is, i think, more related to ol' Jimmy's statements. here's the deal: any time a white public figure says something that can be
remotely construed in some form or fashion as even
slightly disparaging to black folks, said figure will be lynched by the thought police as a *shudder* racist.
feel free to gasp horribly.
that was Jimmy's real problem. whether he was right or wrong, and i think he was wrong-but that is just me, he crossed that terrible line of black sanctity. we must all bow down and worship black people as the ultimate embodiment of everything awesome while simultaneously wallowing in our despair at our unwitting white deviltry.
if
only we could all be black, then the world would be a better place.