“What lousy school did this idiot go to? Heck it was even taught in high school
He must’ve missed that semester”
His video advertises his idiocy.
“His video advertises his idiocy.”
I’m not sure about that. Was I ever taught in school that in America’ south a great percentage of slave traders and owners were black southerners? Of course, I learned that later but don’t recall hearing that in school. Ditto that it was Africans rounding up, and selling, other Africans.
You may be missing his point. I find him quite intellectually curious and open-minded. He says he is an engineering student. Most of engineering folks are not typically interested in history or social studies; but he wants to learn, and seems to break information down the way an engineer looks at things: what are the hard elements, what are the moving parts, and what makes this thing work?
When the kid says, "they never taught us this in school," he is referring to Sowell's explanation that:
• slavery existed in all cultures throughout history;• until recently in human history (since the rise of technology), slavery was primarily practiced against vulnerable people by people of the SAME race, so that skin color wasn't a primary function of slavery;
• whites did not enter the continent of Africa and capture slaves, but rather that Africans from weak tribes were raided, captured and sold by other Africans and Arabs;
• and many other points that most Americans never heard in school.
Most American schoolchildren have been taught the standard “heroic” version:
• Slavery bad, therefore the South bad;
• North noble and good, therefore North ended slavery,
• with Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
People younger than most of us on FR have also, since the recent rise of BLM and wokeness, been taught that:
• slavery was INVENTED by the U.S.;• our nation was FOUNDED on an intention to propagate the slave system (when in actuality, allowing slavery was passionately debated from the start, and has often been acknowledged as a fatal flaw in our Founding);
• because our Founding was by white males, many of whom had slaves, white people are inherently oppressors of blacks,
• therefore our system is inerently racist, and
• therefore our system must be destroyed.
Sowell's research shows us the missing details and fallacies of those simplistic points of view.