Posted on 07/05/2021 8:13:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The British brought slavery to the New World and Americans ended it roughly 230 years later. Every black person descended from slaves owes a debt to their ancestors’ struggles. The abomination of slavery is the reason most black people are here, in the greatest country in the world. I’m guessing almost every black American lives a better life than their counterparts in the modern-day Ivory Coast, where many slaves came from, and where today almost 50% of the country lives in poverty (African poverty, not American iPhone poverty) and the life expectancy for men and women is under 60 years. The poverty rate in Liberia, settled by liberated slaves, is even worse.
Yet some people just can’t let slavery go. Olympic hammer-tosser/headline-hustler Gwen Berry was “pissed” when the National Anthem was played after she won the bronze medal and made it to the Olympic team, even narcissistically suggesting it was a “setup” against her. Why else would they play the National Anthem at an Olympic American sports event other than to piss off an athlete no one has ever heard of in a sport no one knew was a sport?
On #BNCLive @MzBerryThrows explains why she turned her back on the national anthem. She says, "If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem. The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America our blood being slain." Take a look at the lyrics. pic.twitter.com/BmqRACNGhe
— BNC (@BNCNews) June 29, 2021
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Slavery only existed in the United States of America for 89 years, 1776-1865.
The left wants to remember when slavery was the law and people were subject and obliged to obey slavery laws. The left wants slaves !
I think the Dutch were the first to bring slavery to colonies, not English
Possessiom is 9/10ths? Divi$ivene$$=big mun-eh!
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Booker T. Washington - 1911
Why Can’t the Left
Let Go of
PAST Slavery?
To divert attention from
their current slave trader activity
at the southern boarder.
#BidensSlavers-R-Us.
Shhhhhhhh! You’re gonna get me trouble. Not because my kin may have been Dutch but the, you know, the other thing. Guilt by association. :-)
Progressive can’t win by productivity.
Progressives have discovered they can win by disqualifying the productive: abuse cultural norms of fairness and culpability (whatever those are at the time) to eject the objectively productive, that competition be removed and spoils up for grabs. Having vanquished those who actually do the work, a “cargo cult” follows - having seized the trappings of success, they expect the fruits of productivity will follow; that failing (to their surprise), they handle subsequent supply-and-demand problems by reducing demands - first by rationing, eventually by slaughter.
Because that’s all they have.
They won’t shut up about reparations and American’s history regarding slavery. Yet they love China who has an entire religion locked up in concentration camps as slaves to help their economy.
Truth is, our “conservative” neoncons have done the same to countless other countries: target ethnic minorities and rub their wounds and slights raw until we can use them for “regime change”.
FTA: “...American iPhone poverty...”
Snappy line - I like it!
Actually, it was probably either the Portugese or the Spanish.
Out of the 10.5-12 million slaves trafficed in the trans atlantic slave trade, only about 300,000 - 450,000 ended up in America. The vast majority ended up in the Carribean or Brazil.
The Left needs black people to remain angry so they will support a Marxist revolution. They do not want them to succeed in America.
You make an interesting point, though. Prior to the launch of the USA in 1788, all slavery on the North American continent was BRITISH (maybe a bit of Spanish and French thrown in here and there), most certainly NOT American.
It is interesting to contemplate that slavery existed in the USA for LESS TIME than a lot of FReepers have been alive.
Slavery is a great visual and emotional narrative for selling the victimhood product (which is the primary product of the Left).
Give everyone who can prove they came from a family of slaves $250k in a self directed IRA with all applicable tax laws. Over the next 5 years they will give about 60% back to the government and spend the rest at wal-mart….. and with a little luck we can put the issue behind us. :)
“Thank God my granddaddy got on the boat.”
~Cassius Clay
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