Posted on 08/15/2023 6:35:59 AM PDT by rktman
“Thank God My Granddaddy Got on that Boat”
Mohammad Ali.
“And the award for Pretentious Gibberish goes to...”
You beat me to it.
He’s abusing his thesaurus to the max.
The only places that still have slavery are in Africa.
By some criteria there are more slaves in the world today than before our Civil War. And the majority of them are in Africa, and owned by Africans. Meanwhile Africans in the US flock to their derivative of the religion with a slavery manual for its ‘holy’ book. Crickets from them on the current status of their homelands.
I was thinking the same thing. I’ve earned 2 master’s degrees, and found the words more distracting than engaging. Sometimes it’s best to use simpler words to communicate big ideas.
“Why it took so long is a valid question.”
Greed. Southerners wanted cheap labor and Northerners and Europeans wanted cheap goods from that labor. Picking cotton was so back breaking we made German POWs do it against the Geneva Convention(against their will under threat of punishment)
It’s amazing how many of those people are white now.
What you do not understand is that a very substantial fraction of Americans descended from slaves find living among white people to be intolerable.
In this country the first slave owner was black and there were thousands of blacks who owned slaves - 3,000 black slave owners in New Orleans alone. Some blacks owned large plantations.
“race problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well...”
Off topic—but this sounds like the current health care establishment—keep the gravy train going at all costs.
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