Posted on 09/14/2017 7:48:43 AM PDT by davikkm
Black Lives Matter students and staff at UVA have denounced the statue of the university founder, Thomas Jefferson, and rather unsurprisingly released a list of demands. As with all of these demands, there is a fair amount of idiocy thrown in with some of the more reasonable ones. But it seems that the entire frenzy of BLM activists, Antifa, and other associated nut jobs are missing a really key lesson – Slavery.
Consider this: There are people living as slaves, right now, today, in many parts of the world. If you were really so incensed by the fact that slavery once existed in a place, surely you would be angry that it still exists in others…or is it all selfish hypocrisy?
The pygmy people of the Congo region are quite literally born into slavery, live their lives as slaves, and are owned by their Bantu masters.
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Muslims are still running slavery throughout much of the world.
ISIS wants a caliphate just like Mad Mo had.
To include slavery and sex slaves.
They are not missing it. They are ignoring it. They want to keep their heads on their shoulders!
Stop all taxpayer funding of all schools and other instutions founded by, named after slaveholders or present in a slave state during slavery.
Stop all taxpayer funding to any person who is the descendant of a slaveholder.
Stop all taxpayer funding to any person whose ancestors did not actively oppose slavery in 1861-63 by fighting on the Union side.
Just as the word niggardly is not PC, so stop all taxpayer funding to any name that could be confused with slavery.
(Except keep funding Democrats, the party of slavery.) ;]
Am I the only one who finds is humorously ironic that those to cry the loudest about removing names and monuments associated with the time period of slavery carry around images of dead slave owners in their wallets?
I didn’t learn in history one thing about the white slave market run out of the Barbary States. Why don’t we learn anything about that?
You don’t understand. It is only whites who are evil...
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