Posted on 07/22/2020 5:56:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of the emergent strategies on college campuses for destroying the United States is describing it falsely as a racist institution. America is not simply “not racist.” America is the most important and successful anti-racist political project in human history. We can grasp this important fact with an empirical analysis.
Initially, in the pathological dystopian academic tall tales, ‘America is a uniquely evil nation founded in 1619 upon slavery.’ The New York Times backs this project proposing that the arrival of slaves in America proves that our nation is essentially dedicated to slaveholding. This mythology works best when one imagines that slavery is peculiar rather than endemic. But slavery is a normative feature of many human societies. Slavery continues to this day and we would do well to ask Ghislaine Maxwell or the human traffickers at the Mexican border more difficult questions about its contemporaneous nature. Today, one out of 200 people globally are estimated to be living in slavery. In fact, slavery continues to be a serious problem in many African nations. What makes the American political experiment specifically anti-racist is that it set in motion a powerful movement against slavery. For Jacobin scholars, the fantasy that 1776 was an effort to preserve slavery is plainly a fantasy. Princeton historian Sean Wilentz explained to the pain of Atlantic readers: “the colonists had themselves taken decisive steps to end the Atlantic slave trade from 1769 to 1774. During that time, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island either outlawed the trade or imposed prohibitive duties on it. Measures to abolish the trade also won approval in Massachusetts, Delaware, New York, and Virginia, but were denied by royal officials.” Moreover, in 1777 Vermont banned slavery upon early entry to the new colonial system.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Considering most entities they are concerned with have been run by Democrats for decades... who is doing the racism?
“Acknowledging that the South was defending slavery — which it was — requires acknowledging that the Union North was dedicated to its abolition.”
The Lost Causers would not agree.
Such logic is typical among those to whom the use of a simple screwdriver is akin to relativity calculations.
Such a dumbass.
The Constitution was ratified in 1787. That's when this country started. The policies of the British Empire are not my concern. This country wrestled with the issue of slavery from 1787 to 1865. We solved the problem. It's 150 years later, and these grievance hustlers refuse to move on. So boring.
We didn’t solve the problem until we ensured that black Americans could vote, and began to punish violent acts against them that had been committed with impunity.
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MLK’s “dream” has been achieved about as completely as humanly possible. I live in what was probably the most racist country in the country (“all blacks out by dusk or get lynched” not long ago), and is now the most diverse I’ve seen anywhere (roughly even mix of white, black, Asian, Indian, etc).
Capitalism is inherently non racist: profit cares not the color of the hand exchanging money.
Most offenses being alleged now are the discovery that life is hard & unfair, that equality does not magically make everything wonderful, that whites put up with a lot of $#!^ too and don’t whine about it.
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True ownership of slaves did not actually start until 1655 with the Johnson vs Casor decision. Prior to that time indentured servitude was the order of the day with servitude limited to a fixed period by contract. Anthony Johnson, a black man and a former indentured servant, prospered and owned several slaves including John Casor. When Casor’s contract expired Johnson sued to own him outright. Initially he lost, appealed and won.
Johnson, a black man, became the first legal slave owner and John Casor became the first black slave.
They should be. Only two nations on earth ever turned against slavery....the USA and Great Britain. I would posit that the post William Wilberforce British Empire did more to diminish global slavery than any other force.
Excellent article, and so are some of the links within it. Thanks for posting.
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