Posted on 06/20/2022 12:21:51 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
I read years ago that freed blacks owned slaves at the same rate as whites back then.
How many slaves in the US do we currently have via the drug cartel?
Notice how every time a leftie posts some stupid cr@p, there are dozen on anon posters giving the guy an “attaboy”. Astroturf runs deep on twitter.
I'm guessing that the bureaucrats had to look at the calendar and figure out the best place to put a new vacation day, and then found some date, no matter how obscure, that would fit. Seriously.
That was my rebuttal to Bill Nye’s bogus assertion, and it was entirely factual. The South was held back economically by its practice of slavery. Look it up.
My ancestors arrived in NYC before the blacks from Africa got there and they managed quite well thank you very much to build their own America without the so called ‘labor’ of any of them ...
I don’t know about “same rate”, but there were a significant number of freed blacks who owned black slaves in the South - in fact the first adjudication of the institution which formally made it a legal entity under law involved a black slaveowner.
“How many slaves in the US do we currently have via the drug cartel?”
A very good question - quite a bit of slavery going on now thanks to our wide open borders. But if you speak up about it, you are a racist. Note it is largely the same party at both periods of history that is responsible for this practice of slavery thriving.
Bill Nye was dubbed “the Science Guy” by fellow comedian Ross Shafer, as a rhyming joke. (This was for the old Almost Live comedy show.)
That’s some of the most retarded history I’ve heard about the south. Good for entertainment value though
I bet they knew in a heck of a lot less time than two years that the country was at Civil War.
Also, my 4x great grandfather was born in London England but wound up in Georgia - he was an investment banker/ entrepreneur/ financier. I have one of his letters from some time in the 1850s, in which he told a friend that slavery was not economically feasible for the same reasons you mention. And he was another pretty sharp guy.
Democrats have always thought that slave labor is more productive than free labor. The truth is: slavery was an impediment to the economic development of the U.S. The north and south started out about equal in population and material wealth. By the Civil War, the north was 4 times as large in population, and 8 times as large in wealth. Hence, the north won the Civil War (duh). Ditto WWII. The Nazi slave economy was never as productive as the preceding Weimer Republic. The Soviets relied heavily on lead-lease from the U.S., as did our other allies. Ditto the post-war economies. Germany enjoyed an economic miracle upon the deregulation of its economy, and so did the U.S., but Great Britain went socialist and its economy stalled. Ditto the Cold War period. The Keynesians as well as the Communists thought the Soviet Union would overtake and then shoot ahead of the U.S. But, it was the Soviet Union that fell apart, not the U.S. Ditto nowadays. Biden and the other idiots in Washington think China is going to eat our lunch. No. After we win the upcoming elections and those of 2024, we will resume growing at a strong rate. Besides, the economy of India, which has shifted from democratic socialism to free markets, is growing faster than is China’s economy. Bill Nye, the socialist guy, only reveals how ignorant he is about economics. The guy doesn’t know the limits of his knowledge, and undermines all of his forays outside of his actual expertise in engineering. Whipping people is not only morally wrong, it isn’t productive. The great advance of productivity and the standard of living of the masses of people come with the end of slavery, serfdom, peasantry and other forms of servitude. The great advance came with the industrial revolution including not only with the use of industrial equipment and the harnessing of fossil fuel, but with the freeing of labor.
Bingo
One day ago is not “Dwelling on the past”. LOL. Also, Musk is not a conservative on most issues. Don’t follow him too closely.
Sure, it might have fallen of its own accord in another generation. And the viability of it wasn’t the same in 1860 as 1770.
But that has nothing to do with the issue raised.
Would the south have been more advanced and more economically developed if it never had slavery? I find the claim ridiculous, but think what you want.
If it was so harmful, they could have stopped at any point. But year after year they continued, supposedly against their own interests.
I guess the keyboard warriors of 2022 knew more than the people actually there at the time what was best for their interests.
Well, let’s see, black folk now have Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth to celebrate themselves and Black History month. Much like TV commercials today where corporate virtue signalers have given them the dominant presence, the job will not be done until they are celebrated with special holidays 365 days a year. Happy Kwanzaa, y’all
“The United States we know today was built with the labor of enslaved Black Americans,” he said on Sunday, June 19, which is federally recognized as Juneteenth.
No. But we all have issues with our colonial past. Brazil. Even Canada with how they treated indigenous people. They were not always woke like Justin Trudeau is today.
It’s really St. George of Fentanyl Day to celebrate Burning Looting Mobs.
My ancestors were ‘indentured servants’ and worked mining jobs in caves. Unlike slaves, they weren’t allowed to marry. When do I get my reparations? (/sarcasm)
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