We fought 2 wars to end it...."to the shores of Tripoli"
Years ago went to a lecture on slavery at Williamsburg. They stated that freed blacks owned slaves at the same percentage as whites owned slaves.
Not all indentured servants were ever freed.
Posted on 02/18/2021 4:04:41 AM PST by Kaslin
When will Black History Month be ... history?
Apart from the bizarre notion that educators should set aside one month to salute the historical achievements of one race apart from and above the historical achievements of other races, Black History Month appears to omit a lot of Black history.
About slavery, do our mostly left-wing educators teach that slavery was not unique to America and is as old as humankind? As economist and author Thomas Sowell says: "More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than Blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after Blacks were freed in the United States."
Are students taught that "race-based preferences," sometimes called "affirmative action," were opposed by several civil rights leaders? While National Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young supported a type of "Marshall Plan" for a period of 10 years to make up for historical discrimination, his board of directors refused to endorse the plan. In rejecting it, the president of the Urban League in Pittsburgh said the public would ask, "What in blazes are these guys up to? They tell us for years that we must buy (nondiscrimination) and then they say, 'It isn't what we want.'"
Do our left-wing educators, during Black History Month, note that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's celebrated New Deal actually hurt Blacks? According to Cato Institute's Jim Powell, Blacks lost as many as 500,000 jobs as a result of anti-competitive, job-killing regulations of the New Deal. Powell writes: "The minimum wage regulations made it illegal for employers to hire people who weren't worth the minimum because they lacked skills. As a result, some 500,000 blacks, particularly in the South, were estimated to have lost their jobs."
Are students taught that gun control began as a means to deny free Blacks the right to own guns? In ruling that Blacks were chattel property in the Dred Scott case, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney warned that ruling otherwise would mean that Blacks could legally own guns. If Blacks were "entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens," said Taney, "it would give persons of the Negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one state of the union, the right ... to keep and carry arms wherever they went ... endangering the peace and safety of the state."
Are students taught that generations of civil rights leaders opposed illegal immigration and raised questions about legal immigration? After the Civil War, Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass implored employers to hire Blacks over new immigrants. Twenty-five years later, Booker T. Washington pleaded with Southern industrialists to hire Blacks over new immigrants: "One third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. ... To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South: Cast down your bucket where you are. Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your fireside."
About illegal immigration, Coretta Scott King signed a letter urging Congress to retain harsh sanctions against employers who knowingly hire illegal workers. The letter said: "We are concerned ... that ... the elimination of employer sanctions will cause another problem -- the revival of the pre-1986 discrimination against black and brown U.S. and documented workers, in favor of cheap labor -- the undocumented workers."
These are just a few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
They don’t teach how it was rival black tribes selling them to the white slave traders. Then there would be evil black devils as well as evil white devils.
>>When will Black History Month be ... history?<<
Never...the answer is never.
No amount of reparations, societal change, acknowledgments, hand outs of free housing, food, college, hiring will ever be enough.
The government wants it this way, this is the technique in which to control a segment of society. Victim-hood.
Americans need to go back to speaking the truth instead of allowing the leftist to pervert the truth. They are experts in deception and manipulation.
https://247sports.com/college/usc/board/59419/Contents/historical-memory-118909639/
You used to be able to find this column by Perryman at History News Network. HNN has memory holed it. Click on the above link and scroll down to the mention of the 2004 editorial.
Very well said. And there is much more that needs to be said/taught.
They don’t teach how Margret Sanger was their Hitler, who considered them inferior weeds that needs to be exterminated, giving birth to the holocaust of black babies during the last 50+ years.
Do the left wing educators teach that socialism and communism makes citizens the slaves of the state?
They don’t teach that guilt for slavery is not inherited through the genes, and does not jump over to people who have light skin.
Easy fix! Just declare that no one entering the USA is here illegally, AND that they can work and vote immediately! The Biden Fix!
My sarcasm is obviously evident, but this is what I expect will be EO’d soon.
Thank you Mr. Elder. You are a man of truth. God bless you.
The list of what left-wing ‘eddikators’ do not teach would exceed the storage capacity of the world’s servers.
The list of what the teach that is actually correct would take a byte or two.
Here’s something which I doubt is taught during Black History Month: the origin of slavery in Virginia
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/horrible-fate-john-casor-180962352/
Prior to 1654, there was no chattel slavery, only indentured servitude, where people worked off the cost of their passage by working for someone for 7 years. After that, they were free to go live their lives in the New World.
In 1654, Anthony Johnson went to court to argue that his indentured servant, John Casor, should be considered his slave for life. The court agreed, and slavery came into existence.
The new slave holder, Anthony Johnson, was black.
Black History Month could be really used to advance the lives of Blacks if they taught:
1) Blacks once lived in this country in stable family units;
2) The Dems never accepted Emancipation and started the KKK; and
3) The Dems orchestrated a social policy to move freed blacks back onto an economic plantation.
We need a much bigger article!
We fought 2 wars to end it...."to the shores of Tripoli"
Years ago went to a lecture on slavery at Williamsburg. They stated that freed blacks owned slaves at the same percentage as whites owned slaves.
Not all indentured servants were ever freed.
I did not know that fact. Thanks.
And they certainly don’t teach that slavery goes on to this day in AFRICA!
https://www.ijm.org/stories/lost-in-slavery-on-lake-volta
At the time the US was importing slaves, Africa was the most difficult place to navigate.
There were warring tribes, many dialects all unknown to outsiders and a true a language barrier, a wide abyss between cultures and societies, poor maps and mostly, NO maps, awful climate, tropical diseases, there were mountains rivers and every sort of unknown and dangerous terrain.... etc.
No outsider could successfully get into the interior, find people to kidnap and then get back out with their slaves. They just docked their boats at ports known for providing people kidnapped from further inland.... kidnapped BY other Africans. Slavery was not possible without the eager and consistent involvement of native people. Why did the native people work with Europeans to enslave other Africans?
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