Slavery- rascist? Perhaps not after all

Disclaimer- I am not a rascist.  This was just a thought.

So we were talking about this in govt class.  The slaves and segregation was similar to the Roman class structure as in the working class and the naturally rich class.  The Patrician class was the born with a silver spoon in your mouth rich class of people (whites), while the Plebians were the working class (blacks).  The Patricians were not supposed to marry out of their class.  And if a Patrician fell in love with and Plebian, they were thrown out of the class.  Especially if it was a woman.  This relates to white people being osticized (sp) if they were with a black person.  The plebes were treated like crap by the upper class as it was with slavery.

I agree with you somewhat, but I think there were some differences.
And Corrections.

Commons (plebs or vulgus): all other freeborn Roman citizens. The special mark of dress for citizen males was the toga. All Roman citizens had conubium, the right to contract a legal marriage with another Roman citizen and beget legitimate children who were themselves Roman citizens.

Slaves (servi): system of chattel slavery where human beings were born into slavery or sold into slavery through war or piracy. Slaves were the property of their owners by law, but by custom some slaves (especially urban, domestic slaves) might be allowed their own savings (peculium) with which they might later buy their freedom, or their masters could manumit them, so some mobility into the previous class was possible. . Roman slavery was not racially based, and slaves had no special distinction of dress, though slaves who had run away were sometimes made to wear metal collars with inscriptions such as the following: “I have run away. Capture me. When you have returned me to my master, Zoninus, you will receive a reward.”

There were no white slaves in America. In the Roman Empire, there were.

Slavery was a form of labor and not a form of rascism. Rascism developed later on and became a trend among white people.  Cruelty and the like (whipping etc) had been popular since the middle ages and the style of doing so had not yet begun to wane from society as a whole.  Of course this is all about the individual slave owner.

Blacks were slaves because they were black. Blacks were chosen to be slaves in the beginning because they were 'inferior to whites'.

Slavery was both. Blacks were chosen because they were believed to be inferior, and that is why whites were not used.

On to the n word.  The term african american wasnt around yet.  The term black people wasnt being used yet.  So what word was created to refer to the slaves?  You guessed it, the n word.  The n word was just used as a prefix on a slave's name.  Like the one you see in family guy: N word John.  That was the original use of the word.  The word became a derogitory term when the black people learned to speak english.  That was when instead of having a name you were just called the n word and it slipped of the white man's tongue like nothing.  Unless it was used as an insult.

When did the term African American originate?

Thats all i have thought of for now.  I know i didnt cover every topic or go very in depth, but those are my thoughts and what i have found in research. 

 The n word was just used as a prefix on a slave's name.  Like the one you see in family guy: N word John.  That was the original use of the word.