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Black History Month: The Facts
American Thinker.com ^ | February 26, 2021 | Carol Hornby Haynes

Posted on 02/26/2021 6:27:56 AM PST by Kaslin

February is Black History Month and a time to celebrate the many significant and far reaching accomplishments of black Americans. Instead we’re endlessly bombarded by a vitriolic media, Hollywood, and academia with claims that America was founded on slavery. Christianity is rejected as "the white man's religion that justified slavery."

A historical review shines the light of truth on these false charges.

Slavery

Despite the assertion that America cornered the market on slavery, slavery has been a worldwide institution since the beginning of civilization. Thomas Sowell, renowned black economist and philosopher, provides insights about slavery in his book (chapter titled “Twisted History”).

“Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved – and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.

“Slavery was just not an issue, not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the 18th century – and then it was an issue only in Western civilization. Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other American leaders. You could research all of the 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing criticism today? American leaders of the 18th century.”

Sowell shows that it was 17th-century Christians who attacked slavery’s immorality.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: slavery

1 posted on 02/26/2021 6:27:56 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“Why is Black History Month February? ‘Cause 28 days is all The Man is gonna give us.” -Chris Rock


2 posted on 02/26/2021 6:30:33 AM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Kaslin

Islam believes in and practices slavery.


3 posted on 02/26/2021 6:32:02 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Kaslin

BHM...... pretending to be relevant


4 posted on 02/26/2021 6:35:40 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: Kaslin

Can someone tell me when White History Month is? I can’t find it on my calendar.


5 posted on 02/26/2021 6:37:47 AM PST by econjack
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To: Kaslin

Seems like someone forgot pedo joe’s declaring he and his ilk will choose “truth(?)” over facts.


6 posted on 02/26/2021 6:45:23 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Kaslin

I know this is beating a dead horse with fellow FReepers, but it needs to be repeated: This entire “Woke” movement is just a rehash of Jim Crow designed to keep our Afro brothers and sisters compliant and subservient to the Democrats. Their demonization of Whites is just a strategy to push the illusion that the Democrats are on the back man’s side, which nothing could be further from the truth. It’s high time we counter this disgusting narrative with the truth.


7 posted on 02/26/2021 6:53:24 AM PST by Intar
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To: Kaslin

From Emory University and associated other sources, some facts on who went where and where they came from. But facts....meh!:

https://slavevoyages.org/


8 posted on 02/26/2021 7:29:44 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Kaslin

If there is no white history month isn’t that racism?.
Or any other race as far as that goes


9 posted on 02/26/2021 7:52:59 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: econjack

What’s worse is Faggot month aka Pride month.


10 posted on 02/26/2021 8:11:12 AM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


11 posted on 02/26/2021 8:38:52 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Kaslin

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12 posted on 02/26/2021 2:53:23 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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Bump


13 posted on 02/26/2021 9:05:36 PM PST by foreverfree
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