Posted on 10/18/2014 9:11:32 AM PDT by Abakumov
Slavery certainly has its place among the horrors of humanity. But our "educators" today, along with the media, present a highly edited segment of the history of slavery. Those who have been through our schools and colleges, or who have seen our movies or television miniseries, may well come away thinking that slavery means white people enslaving black people. But slavery was a worldwide curse for thousands of years, as far back as recorded history goes.
Over all that expanse of time and space, it is very unlikely that most slaves, or most slave owners, were either black or white. Slavery was common among the vast populations in Asia. Slavery was also common among the Polynesians, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere enslaved other indigenous peoples before anyone on this side of the Atlantic had ever seen a European.
More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.
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I want reparations and I want them now!
Muslim Arabs have black African slaves today and no one, no one, no one cares.
Frankly, I put the issue of slavery in America in the same thought-bucket as colonial blood-letting to cure different ailments. It is a foregone fact, and it has no bearing on the actual situation of blacks today. Lyndon Baines Johnson cured all that with his “Great Society” and the “War on Poverty” on which we’ve spent untold trillions of dollars.
To devolve back into 150 year old history is pointless, IMO. Just more ammunition that has no primer.
And as you know the word Slave came from Roman enslavement of the Slavs, who they valued for their work and beauty.
Charming institution which should be rooted out in all societies, starting with the most heinous Slave societies ever known - the Communist nations.
If these liberals, socialists and communists are so horrified with slavery, why aren’t they doing nothing about the slavery still happening in the Muslim countries? YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT SLAVERY HAS BEEN DONE AWAY WITH? There is still slavery happening in Africa, especially in the SUDAN. Yep, there are still slave markets, and women and children are still being sold. The women and girls are sold as sex slaves and the boy children are being castrated to work in the households and the fields of wealthy Muslims. I have seen the slave markets.
The most enthusiastic slavers in the history of mankind are the Progressives’ new BFFs, the muslims.
The ancestors of today’s African Americans paid a very dear price, but they did earn something very valuable - American citizenship for their descendants. Most blacks today have been brainwashed, used by race baiters trying to gain political advantages. The reality is the we ALL are descendants of slaves. And slave owners for that matter - if you can research back far enough.
There were plenty of black slave owners in the pre civil war south.
I love Thomas Sowell. He is a great American.
Muslim Arabs have black African slaves today and no one, no one, no one cares.
I am sure we’re sending a lot of those nations billions per year.
The reality is the we ALL are descendants of slaves.
I want my reparations.
Blacks need to stop making excuses. Slavery is now just an excuse. Excuses hurt only themselves.
At least once a week in in the Houston area, we see a news segment on illegals being held as slaves. Most of the time it is 50+ people crammed into a single home with few clothes and really disgusting sanitary situations. The other day I saw a piece where only 3 men were being held - I don’t know if they were going out to work or being used sexually. Another resident of the apartment complex just said he saw a lot of people coming and going from the apartment. Slavery is alive and well in the illegal population.
The truth is, Progressive Leftists are opposed to individual liberty as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The only real complaint they have about chattel slavery in America two hundred years ago is that the slaves were privately owned.
But they get orgasmic over the idea of slavery to the state.
Democrats never pass up on opportunity to tell us why enslavement by the state is for our own protection and our own safety, because life under the anarchy that conservatives want to impose is just too risky and dangerous. We can't have any of that inhumane "on-your-own economics" that conservatives advocate.
Thereby proving that you no longer have to be black to be an Uncle Tom.
Could you tell us where have you seen the slave markets? I know it’s mentioned here there is active slavery in the Sundan, but where have you seen this practice?
BUMP
” Slavery is alive and well in the illegal population.”
Not PC, so it will never make it on the evening news.
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And IF it were up to the Democrats . . . they’d still be there . . . thus the next best thing the Democratic Welfare Plantation. But they can’t see it . . . and vote for them anyways.
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