by the way, I hear that “400 years of slavery” line being thrown around the fake news media.
According to history.com, the first slaves came in 1619:
“Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia...”
source: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Since slavery in America ended in 1865, that would be 246 years of slavery.
Am I wrong?
Van Lathan chooses to be a slave.
Obviously I do not believe that slavery was a “choice”. But here’s the elephant in the room. Those sold into slavery were already enslaved. Had they remained on the African continent their condition would not have changed, they would have remained enslaved. So in the end, It really doesn’t matter where they were, they were originally enslaved by their own people.
I would be skeptical of jumping on the Kanye West bandwagon.....he can say some really stupid things....just saying!!!!
Lying right out of the chute. He didn’t say American slavery was a choice. Listen to the actual words.
No need to even read further. Either this source is a liar or is just passing on a lie as ordered.
The interesting thing about Kanye is how he’s illustrating for everyone exactly how this groupthink is enforced on black Americans. All he did was wear a hat, backed by tweets where he specifically stated that he didn’t agree with everything anyone does, but that doesn’t prevent him from treating everyone with love and respect. For this, he gets unbelievable vitriol.
When I heard this from Kanye, I immediately thought of Frederick Douglass. He’d agree.