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If, God forbid, an actual formal “slavery reparations” program ever takes hold in the U.S., then it will become my mission in life to constantly remind American blacks of the fact that over 4,000 free blacks in colonial America were slave OWNERS, and therefore they need to figure out which of today’s blacks owe reparations to other blacks. In fact, contrary to their “all blacks were slaves” false narrative, there were many wealthy black land owners back then, including one who may have even saved the revolution by using his own money to support the Continental army in a time of dire need.

There were also over 300,000 WHITE SLAVES sent to America between 1618 and 1775, as the British simply snatched children, prostitutes, and others that were easy pickings off the streets of Scotland, Ireland, and England and shipped them over to provide labor for the tobacco fields (sound familiar?). Technically, they were indentured servants who could earn back their freedom, but often their British masters would, amazingly, decide that they were no longer going to honor that agreement, and they became simply chattel slaves. They were beaten and treated horribly (hmm…again, sound familiar?) as well.

Put those two inconvenient facts together and I don’t EVER want to hear anyone whining about black slavery in America ever again! It was nothing unique, and the Africans brought here were no more victims than were the hundreds of thousands of whites who experienced exactly the same unfortunate fate. And none of it had anything to do with race - the drive behind it was simply to obtain free labor, whether it came in the form of white British subjects or black Africans. In fact, had African chiefs not rounded up members of their rivals’ tribes and offered them up to western slave traders, it’s doubtful that many Africans ever would have become slaves, at least in the Americas (they had already been enslaving each other in Africa for generations).

And to the clueless libs and race hustlers who today cry and moan about slavery in America hundreds of years ago, I say if you’re so worked up about it then get your butt on a plane and fly over to the Sudan or one of the many other places where Muslim Africans are enslaving Christian Africans TODAY. In fact, they’re even doing so with all of the historical trappings, including slave auctions, beatings, etc. If you have the chance to work against slavery that is occurring right this minute, but would rather complain about something that ended over 150 years ago, then just go away and shut up about it, because you’re a clueless self-centered hypocrite.

Facts and logic will get you nowhere with them.

And do not forget Libya - the post-Gadaffi Lybia is a major slave trafficking hub, no little thanks to Mme HRC.

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NOISEMAN!:

I appreciate your kick-ass post but when you speak of:

...one who may have even saved the revolution by using his own money to support the Continental army in a time of dire need....:

You are referring to Haym Solomon?: