Remember all that fun I had telling people to cleanse themselves from all of their ‘blood money’.
Someone took my idea and ran with it. Behold, there is now a ‘reparations fund’ you can actually give to. It’s first donor is George Soros.
Soros wades into reparations issue as donor (msn.com)
I am fully in favor of this idea. Anyone who actually believes ‘Critical Race Theory’ and thinks America’s founding was on the backs of slaves now has something they can really do about it.
The selling of racial indulgences is here.
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Well, there we have it, a guilt fund that anyone can shame themselves into donating to. 
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Everyone should agree that is the case.
Cotton made the US into an economic superpower.
STODR
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And now this. Charging white people s reparations fee.
Seattle commission dismisses complaint about ‘Pride’ event charging White people ‘reparations’ fee
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DMK
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Good grief. Ya gotta be daft to care about going to a pride event.
Don’t people have laundry to do or something?
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It wasn’t the only thing.
It played a big part. Cotton as well as other crops like tobacco. But the US economy was heavily industrializing by the 1830s. The economy was diversifying at a pretty crazy rate by then.
To say cotton made us an economic superpower isn’t looking at the full picture. It’s ignoring the rise of industry in the northern states.
And in all honesty, we weren’t an economic super power until after the war. Britain was the premier economic superpower until we overtook them in the later part of the 19th century.
And to add to this, we weren’t the premier world economy until World War I. London was the world center of finance until Britain was forced to basically turn its economy upside down to finance both its own war effort and the war efforts of most of the allies (the French took care of themselves) during the war.
It was during that time that New York became the center of world finance because we loaned both the British and the French (who then diverted funds to their own client powers like Belgium and Italy) obscene amounts of money to produce arms for the war. Then they figured out that their own industries couldn’t produce enough weaponry to defeat the German Empire. So they turned to us and our factories started churning out crazy amounts of licensed munitions for the allies.
So basically they were borrowing our money and then turning around and using that money to buy our war material. It made us filthy rich. The US was already the world’s largest economy before the war, but it wasn’t the center of world finance like London was.
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Cotton was far and away the biggest export in the US. Even AFTER the civil war.
Export. Exports alone do not make an economy.
And it certainly wasn’t our largest export during the war. In fact we weren’t exporting much. Both the Union and CSA were importing weapons on a scale never before seen in history to kill each other with.
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Cotton was the number one export until 1937. It was also the most profitable. So even when exports dwindled during the war… it was still super profitable.
Even with the US, cotton was king.
Cotton made US a GLOBAL ECONOMIC power.
conan
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After our independence had shut down all our trading partners. Cotton was part of it but didn’t make America into economic superpower. Hell if anything it was American merchants that got our economy moving. Cotton was part of it, but grain and other agriculture goods.
And then you had the north ship building…which later lead to our industrial period revolution. That was foundation that lead to American economic power.
Racism is OK when it’s (D)one the correct way.
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Cotton was a major part of it. It was the largest export of the US for over 100 years. No other single product has been at the top of our exports for anywhere near as long. The north built entire industries to support cotton.
It was also super profitable because of the cotton gin and free slave labor. Then after the civil war… it became less profitable because former slaves got paid to work the cotton fields. However that didn’t deter its popularity.
conan
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Yeah OK…believe what you want but history doesn’t agree with you.
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What about the same article covering 1815-1937? Cotton didn’t become a powerhouse until after 1815.