flacaltenn
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Not what I meant.Not sure what you mean in this context. Slavery was an integral part of our nations history, heritage and economy. Pretending that the Civil War had little to do with slavery is something of a postwar construction. You can’t dissect slavery from it any more then you can untangle it from the confederate flag.
What is hateful...is things like this textbook they attempted to use in Texas...referring to slaves as immigrant workers.
Texas mom calls out textbook publisher for interpreting slavery as immigration
Book publishing giant McGraw-Hill is saying it will rewrite a textbook after a Texas mother voiced concerns on YouTube about the portrayal of slaves as immigrant "workers" in her son's school book.abc7chicago.com
In any event, there were many forms of slavery and slave owners. Are we going to be able to discuss sll of it, or just the sections chosen and ignore the rest?
Given how the left is busy tearing down history, forgive me if I fail to care about how they feel about textbooks.
Here is the problem as I see it. You are trying to say they are all morally equivalent, and they aren’t. Indentured servitude was not the same as black slavery in the U.S.
Slavery is slavery. Blacks owned slaves, native Americans owned slaves. Slavery is an institution that existed from the beginning of time. To ignore the fact that right now the ONLY active slave trade is in Africa today, renders the current hyperbolic assertions by the woke left ridiculous.
Slavery here, is discussed in relation to our country, our history, and impact it had on us for decades after. The fact that it existed elsewhere, while horrible, is irrelevant. It was integral to the formation and contentious even at it’s federation. To try and point your fingers elsewhere and say but what about...Is really irrelevant. Those what abouts did not affect us.
There was also some peculiarly evil and brutal about our system, and that was tying race into it, and that in order to justify it’s continuity, that race had defined as brutish, inferior, incapable of managing it’s own destiny. That is even after its abolition, those racist barriers remained. There is a very good book I record book I read, on the founding of America’s and it’s history not as one nation really but a collection of culturally different rival nations, thrust together.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it, it is a good read, and you will find yourself thinking as you read...well no wonder we don’t get along
Our peculiar form of slavery came from the British immigrants from Barbados, who immigrated from the sugar plantations to the Deep South, to set themselves up as aristocracy. They weren’t about to let go of slavery, their lifestyle depended on it And it’s continuity depended upon creating the story of racIam inferiority That persists today.
The myth that the USA was created on the backs of slaves is another problem. What made America America was the industrial might of the North.
The slave states lost because they couldn't produce. That is another lie being promulgated.
That being said, the rioters are getting a taste for blood. They have already assassinated a black Trump supporter with nary a peep from the MSM.
Add to that the attacks on cops and if I were living in those shitholes I would be armed at all times whether it's legal or not.
The politicians have basically said you are on your own.
Actually it's in the news but it's not as you guys portray it. He was killed, he was I think homeless, he supported Trump on one side of his placard and a Demo on the other. There is zero evidence he was assassinated or that they even know who did it. For all you know he could have been assassinated for supporting a Dem.
Yeah.. Just a fucking coincidence that it was ONE DAY AFTER the local news interviewed him about his Trump support on the SAME CORNER.... And no. Not clear he was homeless. Article says something about signs at his business...
