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VP Harris botches Juneteenth history lesson about ‘400 years of slavery’
NY Post ^ | 06/20/2022 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 06/20/2022 2:54:51 PM PDT by DFG

Vice President Kamala Harris bungled a history lesson about the Juneteenth holiday Monday, telling kids that black people were enslaved in America for 400 years — overstating the actual time period by more than 150 years.

“I think that we all know today is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom,” Harris told a group of about two dozen elementary school-aged children at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington. “And think about it in terms of the context of history, knowing that black people in America were not free for 400 years of slavery.”

“Let this be a day that is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom, but to speak about it honestly and accurately, both in the context of history and current application,” Harris went on during her apparently extemporaneous remarks.

The first African slaves in what became the American colonies arrived in 1619 in Virginia. Slavery was abolished through the 13th Amendment, which was ratified in 1865 — ending 246 years of the practice, not 400.

A White House official acknowledged Harris’ error, telling The Post that “the vice president was referring to 400 years since slavery began.”

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To: rarestia

41 posted on 06/20/2022 3:51:30 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (WE'RE DOOMED!)
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To: DoughtyOne

The Corsairs and Barbary pirates were raiding Europe for slaves in the 1500s so she’s technically correct.


42 posted on 06/20/2022 4:01:13 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: DFG

400 years is 1619 crap.

She didn’t botch it, it’s these usurpist’s belief.

They don’t believe the U.S. even exists and it’s all the same colonialism and imperialism etc...


43 posted on 06/20/2022 4:09:01 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Justa

Using that figure we’re talking about 365 years. Of course
you are touching on European slaves in part, rather than
African slaves. She’d probably be happy to include those
years as long as nobody raised your point.

One could use the 1619 figure and that would equate to 246
years.

But if we focus on the U. S. involvement, we’re talking
about 1776 to 1865, which was around 89 years.

It doesn’t make it any less impactful for African slaves,
but the last figure is the one that the U. S. should be
accountable for.


44 posted on 06/20/2022 4:11:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: rarestia

I refer you to the eminent historian Nelson Muntz.


45 posted on 06/20/2022 4:11:58 PM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: ifinnegan

1619 to 1865, is 246 years, so she’d be wrong even if she
did use the 1619 figure.


46 posted on 06/20/2022 4:12:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DFG
The first African slaves in what became the American colonies arrived in 1619 in Virginia.

This statement is inaccurate. Whites and blacks arrived in the colonies at this time as indentured servants. They served as laborers on farms and plantations and were granted plots of land upon completion of their contract.

A 1640 court decision in Virginia punished John Punch, a black man and runaway indentured servant, to lifetime servitude (the landowner in this case was also black, a former indentured servant). John Punch is considered the first slave in the English colonies.

And then in 1661, Virgina became the first colony to legalize slavery. So slavery was legal in the American English colonies or United States for 204 years (1661 to 1865).

47 posted on 06/20/2022 4:20:41 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: skepsel

Ha. Ha.


48 posted on 06/20/2022 4:26:12 PM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: DFG

Harris makes all the “Karens” look bad. What a ditzy bimbo.


49 posted on 06/20/2022 4:29:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: DFG

Blacks celebrate juneteenth because they cant celebrate Fathers Day


50 posted on 06/20/2022 4:41:50 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: DFG

“A White House official acknowledged Harris’ error, telling The Post that “the vice president was referring to 400 years since slavery began.””

Slavery began thousands of years ago. Warring tribes enslaved members of tribes they conquered. Slavery was common in ancient civilized countries. The Israelites were slaves in Egypt (per the Bible). Slavery was common in ancient Greece and Rome. Serfdom in the Dark and Middle Ages in Europe was a form of involuntary servitude. Arabs enslaved people before Mohammed and Muslims continued the practice in north Africa. In sub Saharan Africa tribes battled and the losers were enslaved. Many Africans who traveled to the New World were enslaved by African slave traders before those slave traders sold them to the Europeans.

Indigenous people in the Americas practice not only slavery, they practice human sacrifice.

The truth is white Europeans practiced slavery. It is also true western civilization (white Europeans) recognized the evil of slavery and abolished it in the western world during the 18th and 19th centuries. Slavery continues to be practiced in other parts of the world today. Kamala Harris decries an alleged “400 years” of whites enslaving blacks and indigenous peoples in North America, yet ignores sex slavery by cartels trafficking humans across the United States southern border. No outrage. Not even a tear.


51 posted on 06/20/2022 4:42:53 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Craftmore

The truth certainly hurts.


52 posted on 06/20/2022 5:07:19 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: DoughtyOne
I demand reparations from Egypt for my ancestors 400 years of slavery!
53 posted on 06/20/2022 5:18:35 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! S Matter)
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To: Craftmore
Blacks celebrate juneteenth because they cant celebrate Fathers Day.

Ouch.

54 posted on 06/20/2022 5:24:33 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: DFG
"VP Harris botches Juneteenth history lesson about ‘400 years of slavery’"

.... What would Harris know about the history of the Emancipation of Slaves? ... Heck ... She's a Democrat .... The party of Slavery and the KKK ..... Surprised Republicans don't make a bigger deal about Juneteenth .... Use it as a great historical teaching moment for the country ....

55 posted on 06/20/2022 5:38:45 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: DoughtyOne

There’s been slavery in the Americas for 10,000 years or more.


56 posted on 06/20/2022 5:49:14 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: DFG

SHE isn’t even black-—

Daddy is Jamaican

Mommy is India Hindu.


57 posted on 06/20/2022 6:15:14 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: jmacusa

Daddy’s side-—Jamaican.


58 posted on 06/20/2022 6:15:36 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: DFG

Juneteenth only applies to Texas.


59 posted on 06/20/2022 6:21:46 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“1619 to 1865, is 246 years, so she’d be wrong even if she
did use the 1619 figure.”

Yes.

They say 400 years all the time.

It’s their mantra. I think to the extent they bother to try to account for it they mean from 1492.


60 posted on 06/20/2022 6:35:52 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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