Beginning of US Slavery

Townhall.com ^ | August 28, 2019 | Wqlter E. Williams

[Wonder Warthog]

"The reason why you don't hear very much about this case, is that Anthony Johnson was black. He was one of the first blacks to arrive in Virginia in 1619."

Excellent item. So, "true" black slavery in America was instituted by a black African. That is hilariously ironic (and simultaneously tragic).

[Cboldt]

Nice to see a little bit of pushback on “democracy.” Next, push back on the idea that universal suffrage is healthy for a republic.

[I want the USA back]

Normal, sane people would celebrate the END of slavery. People who hate this country are compelled to keep reminding us of slavery for the next 10 centuries.

But they forget about m*slims holding slaves today.

[Savrola]

Of course they’ll talk about the British Empire. The British Empire is one of the favorite punching bags of these people. The evil white imperialists who invented all that is wicked on the planet.

They probably won’t make the point that slavery is as old as history records.

They probably also won’t mention the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron founded at great expense in 1808 to help suppress the Atlantic slave trade.

And as for that man, Wilberforce, probably far too pale (and therefore evil) to be mentioned.

[Soul of the South]

“The whole problem with this New York Slimes stories (and that is what they are just “stories”) is that there was slavery in North America BEFORE 1619!”

Some Native American tribes practiced forms of slavery prior to Europeans appearing in the Americas.

In addition some indigenous peoples in North and South American practiced human sacrifice.

[redfreedom]

You have a very serious issue with the truth in that you are letting facts get in the way of propaganda.

I cannot see just how the NYT expects to come out on top with this crap. The only ones they can possible influence are the extreme die hard left.

Their Russian collusion Trump trashing put the noose around their neck. This garbage will open the trap door.

[mikelets456]

Thanks for the reminder and ping for later.

[USS Alaska]

Nikole Hannah-Jones, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine wrote the lead article, "America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One." She writes, "Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different -- it might not be a democracy at all."

Nikole Hannah-Jones, you areone stupid bitch. The USA is not a democracy, it is a Republic.

You can look it up, and see the difference.

A democracy is mob rule, like Chicago or Baltimore.

A Republic has more respect for the rule of law, not the daily wants of which ever mob has the loudest screams.

[bk1000]

“Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.”

Yeah, it might become a *shudder* Constitutional Republic. Sorry, no sale on 1619. First one to argue FOR chattle slavery was a black man. He won his arguement. Not my fault, not my guilt.

[RideForever]

It figures the NYT would suppress the fact that the court case establishing the legality of slavery in the U.S. was brought by a black man.

[Phlap]

it might not be a democracy at all

And it isn't. It is a republic as it always has been.

[GailA]

btt

[elpadre]

Those early slaves in 1619 that The New York Times focuses on arrived on the San Juan Bautista. If that name doesn’t sound English, that’s because it isn’t. It was a Portuguese ship en route to Spanish Mexico. Off the coast of Mexico, it was attacked and captured by English pirates masquerading as Dutch. They sold their enslaved human cargo at Jamestown.
Slavery is no more ‘native’ to the American experience than, well, anything.

[Deplorable American1776]

Ms Hannah-Jones, my 8 year old son could ask you the difference between a Republic and a Democracy? I bet you don’t know since you said we are a Democracy, but we are a REPUBLIC, you liberal nutcase!

[elpadre]

if the slave ship had delivered its cargo to the Spaniards in Mexico their life span would not have lasted long. The Spaniards were brutal to their slaves.

So, i will make a controversial statement by saying the Jamestown slaves lived much longer and better lives under the Brits on the James River than if they had been delivered to Mexico.

[Deplorable American1776]

I wonder when Democrat racists will force Wilberforce University (the first HBCU and founded by racist whites 😋) to change their name to Malcolm X University...?

[Savrola]

A matter of time. Just a matter of time.

[Vaduz]

1619 Project,” to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
Will the name where in Africa the tribes that sold there own people and the names of all the black slave owners and how many they had....................................................

[foreverfree]

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