Most of this crap goes way back to the plagiarized story “Roots,” that farcical portrayal of white running the blacks down in the depths of the jungles rather than showing that the blacks were neatly brought by their own race to the shores.
Then you had that stupid story of Amistad where they neatly removed reference to his later history of being a slave trader himself.
This all ties neatly with the dead white racist founding fathers crap being spewed on our children by the NEA across the country.
showing that the blacks were neatly brought by their own race to the shores.
“...rather than showing that the blacks were neatly brought by their own race to the shores.”
A while back there was a PBS show where the black host went back to East Africa to find his ruts. While there, he let the cat out of the bag and explained that there was NO WAY that whites were about to travel up the river in that territory, as it was (an is, for that matter) way, way, too dangerous.
No, instead, they paid locals to go upriver, capture people (often from a different tribe), and bring them to the boats.
It was REALLY, REALLY, tough on him. All his life he was trained to hate whitey, but here it was, right in front of him, what really happened (i.e., their history records there, including story telling in tribal families, is actually quite accurate). He was pained but had to admit that without the assistance of people of his race, there never would have a been a slave trade. Kudos to PBS also, for broadcasting the correct history of that ugly period.