Posted on 08/25/2019 11:49:45 AM PDT by SJackson
These people are too dense to realize that slavery existed for thousands of years before 1619.
The USA helped lead the world to END slavery.
It still exists today in mostly muslim countries, but the media won’t talk about that.
You cant reframe American history with respect to people who aren’t in any way, manner, shape or form Americans.
The first person to legally own slaves in the Americas was a black man.
Free blacks owned black slaves.
American Indians owned black slaves.
Etc.
The seeds of the United States began not in 1619 with the introduction of slaves but in 1492 when a European, Columbus, discovered 'The New World'
By 1619 many settlements had been established before any African slaves arrived.
1619 is not THE story. It's only one aspect of the story.
” today we are the most likely of all racial groups to serve in the United States military” -— I seriously doubt that.
for 6000 THOUSAND YEARS prior to the mid-18th century slavery is an accepted institution in virtually ALL countries, societies and cultures.
Within 100 YEARS of the writing and implementation of the Declaration of Independence, the US Bill of Rights and American Constitution slavery has been outlawed worldwide- (not that it didn’t yet persist..in some Middle Eastern countries it didn’t die out until the early 20th century even tho technically illegal)
these people-despite that some of them are “Ivy League educated” ...are stupid.
I suspect the author is mixing 'racial group' with minority group.
Whites, in her mind, are NOT a 'racial group'.
I thought the “new” in the word “newspaper” referred to stuff that just happened - so the “news” in this major New York Times “newspaper” article is something that happened 400 years ago? (And that they get exactly wrong - slavery that existed everywhere in 1619 was on its way out as soon as Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal” in the Declaration).
According to “Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865,” by Tony Seybert, “Most Native American tribal groups practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America.”
The paper itself
Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865 by Tony Seybert
https://mmslibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/slavery-and-native-americans-in-british-north-america-and-the-united-states.pdf
bump
“reframe American history”
George Orwell’s “1984” wasn’t meant to be used as a manual ...
Jamestown was founded in 1607. There is much to be learned from what happened there in the 12 years before any Africans were present in what was then the only English colony in mainland North America.
What should be remembered most about 1619 is the creation of the House of Burgesses--the beginning of the tradition of self-government in the English colonies which later became the US.
Revisionists preparing the battlefield.
What it leaves out: the objective truth.
In 1619, it was folks from various EUROPEAN countries who came here to set things up according to THEIR cultures..
In 1776, we became a nation, under GOD, and began dealing with cleaning up the wrong stuff those earlier pioneers brought here.
Wonder if they mention Sarah Breedlove in their “Project”?
I’m assuming they ignored Marva Collins too.
Why doesn’t someone write a history of anti-Semitism at the NYTimes?
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