Three (3) of my ancestors fought in the union army. That’s the only part I have in the story of slavery.
Slavery is not everybody’s story — it must remain exclusively a story for the United States and its people.
Reparations for slavery...the belief that white people who are not yet born, are responsible for things that happened to black people who have already died.
Suffering through 0bama is reparations.
I have never owned a slave. Never even known anyone who owned a slave. Never have known anyone who was a slave. Slavery has nothing to do with me.
What my ancestors did or did not do, is their concern, not mine and it does not reflect on me as I had no role.
A couple of my ancestors did fight for the Union and died during the war. Most of my ancestors didn’t even come to this country until almost 1900. And, they came from central Europe where their only role with slavery, was that of the Turks invading and taking Europeans back to be slaves.
I apologize for nothing related to slavery, and frankly, if people who have no direct connection with the topic are still impacted by things they did not do or were a party to, it is time to grow up and get over it.
” — it must remain exclusively a story for the United States and its people.”
This guy is a special kind of stupid.
A key point in the article that was NOT stressed - who captured and sold an estimated ~20 million humans into slavery? Why, surprise, members of “The Religion of Peace” - Muslims!
From the article:
Mecca, Saudi Arabia — Beginning in the 7th Century, adherents of Mohammed (Muslims) founded a series of caliphates that brought all of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Iberian peninsula under Muslim control. For eight centuries before the first European slavers arrived in Africa, Arab Muslims established a robust trans-Sahara trade that would eventually capture an estimated 18 million Africans. Slavery was not made illegal in the Arabian Peninsula until 1962.
Tripoli, Libya — Muslim pirates along the North African Barbary Coast didn’t stop with the enslavement of Africans, but also preyed upon Mediterranean shipping and coastal cities. An estimated 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved by these pirates, whose abuses forced Thomas Jefferson to send the nascent United States Navy to shut them down. The event is commemorated to this day in the Marine Corps hymn reference to their exploits on “the shores of Tripoli.”
Read later.
My great-great-great grandfather took a Confederate bullet in the leg at Gettysburg. He carried that bullet, and the pain, limp and general misery it caused him for the rest of his life. He died in 1932. Screw reparations.
Hey we were just following the trend set by the first slave owner in the United States. A black fellow I believe.
What?! You mean Kunta Kinte and Simon Lagreed are made up characters? You sure its not your “white privilege” talking? /s
Author should have included details about some of the largest slave owners being black.
I arrived as a young child to this country in 1967 aboard a 707.
Y’all on your own.
Even a topic like this and the angry reaction you can get when you point out that the slave trade to British North America, as one scholar mentions in the article, was basically very small compared to the rest of the world during that time really shows how anti-intellectual the left really are.
“...those with a vested interest in fostering racial discord in this country.”
Isn’t that what we call “race-hustling poverty pimps?”
Bob Marley told people to move past mental slavery and that only you can free your own mind. Wise advice to those who blame long-ago slavery for their problems today.
Anyone asking for reparations for slavery should be required to renounce their American citizenship and return to their African homeland. The payment can be wired to them upon their arrival. Under those circumstances I’d bet a lot of otherwise vocal people would say “wait, what? Never mind.”
After Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in Zaire, a reporter asked him, “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” to which he replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”