Posted on 02/19/2021 7:49:50 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
So now they're going to conduct a reparations commission in congress. Where is everybody pointing out that Britain's Empire was the one who brought the slaves here?
The Founders didn't ignore their role across the ocean. Why do we? Shouldn't we do what our Founders did? That's all.
The British Empire outlawed slavery and after doing so acted to exterminate it.
The Muslims in Africa, however, were stubborn about holding on to the practice.
Ping...............
“The British Empire outlawed slavery and after doing so acted to exterminate it.”
This is a false statement, in this context. We’re talking about 1776 and prior.
Even Britain’s deeply leftist papers have noted that the Empire was all-in on slavery until well into the 1820’s.
=========Contrary to our view of history, pro-slavery thinking in the 1820s and 30s was the norm, from politicians to monarchs==========
This is asinine but right in line with the liberal thought process.
Throughout “all” history there have been slaves and there still is.
Who sold the slaves to the people that brought them here is never mentioned. Even Native American’s held other tribes a slaves not to mention every damn place in the middle east and all over Europe but in todays toxic liberal mindset the only ones that matter are the ones owned by white people several generations ago.
Should the progressives get on with their tawdry lives instead of trying to find a cudgel to bludgeon their enemies?
I forgot to add, 1776 until 1820 is roughly 40 years.
We don’t know our own history and it’s killing us. And it’s about to cost us big bucks for someone else’s guilt.
Our Founders were the good guys!!!
Well, we have to deal with it. They’re forcing the issue.
And at the end of the day, the fact remains.
The Empire did this, not us.
We’d better find some habitable planets in the universe soon.
Planet Earth is dying of victimhood. Terminal victims need a new planet to ruin.
The 1830s are irrelevant to the mid-late 1700s and prior.
Shouldn’t the African countries whose ancestors sold slaves into slavery pay reparations too?
Our history is rapidly being destroyed as a means of controlling us, by people who care far more about control than about history.
Not just UK, of course. Numerous slaves were initially kidnapped by their fellow Africans.
Like opposing tribes that captured and sold most of the slaves. Most of which did NOT come to the US. And how about the fact that thousands of non POC were captured and made slaves. Guess that doesn’t count. Good map link:
https://slavevoyages.org/static/images/assessment/intro-maps/09.jpg
Slavery is still the norm in much of the world, including some Muslim countries and China. #BidenCulturalDifferences
Wasn’t aware anyone has ignored it. I was taught about it in history in school in the late 1960s early 1970s. It is a fact, it is history, we should learn from it, but don’t see why dwelling on it is helpful. We don’t dwell on other horrible historical events, why this one? What Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler (all communists or near communists) murder of 10s of millions, and putting millions in camps? In the ranking of the worlds many atrocities, that seems more brutal than black slavery?
Logically, yes.
This was never about logic or justice.
It has always been about power and control.
The British paid their slavery reparations. They did a bond issue in 1837 and raised the funds to compensating former slave owners for the loss of their property after abolition.
Under the terms of the Act, the British government raised £20 million to pay out for the loss of the slaves as business assets to the former owners of the freed slaves. The reparations bond was finally paid off in 2015.
They probably should.
But conservatives don’t willfully ignore the African countries the way it is done for the Empire. It’s the biggest story of guilt and everybody is just dancing around.
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