Slavery is wrong, no one currently alive in the U.S. has ever owned a slave from Africa, no African American alive living in the U.S. has been a slave.
The stance of not punishing the child for the fathers sin has pretty much been a nonpartisan agreed upon on issue.
Some people might not like what was just written but it is the truth. Everything is about money, and in the end it always come back to reparations. It might start with a statue being toppled, coining phrases like white privilege which I guess includes the whites eating government cheese, and protests.
But it always comes back to reparations. If all police violence ended tomorrow the protests and outrage wouldnât stop until the is paid.
You could try addressing the question posed in the Tread Title and OP rather than nit pick about whether or not leftists denied the preexistence of slavery.
What about the slave trade today coming out of Libya and in other countries in Africa and parts of Asia. You would think trying to combat and active slave trade would be more important than a statue of someone that hasnât been alive for 130+ years. Imagine if that ire that is being directed at those old statues was directed at this instead what good might come from it.
That is because America is the only place were breeding slaves was the normal, in rest of the trade the average life span of a slave was a decade, working the sugar fields was a death sentence.
Yep I remember that but one almost had to dig for the info as it seemed little of it was covered just like the 1 million minorities locked up in concentration camps in China very little coverage or outrage.
one of the biggest economic industries keeping North Korea alive is exporting slave labor to China and Russia
you will find these âCitiesâ in Rural China/Russia mining, forestry, etc they are guarded by North Korean army officials 150,000-200,000 people are sent there without consent to work for the Russian/Chinese government.
I donât think it is a common misconception that it is a racist European invention. European slavery was unprecedented due to its scale and international colonization.
Not to nitpick, but industry has existed since the Mesopotamian city states. Nonetheless, the transatlantic slave trade is unique and a marker for European conquest of the world.
Donât think thatâs what is occurring. The slave trade in Italy of slavic is technically âEuropean history of slaveryâ, but it pales in comparison to the scale of colonization and enslavement from 1500 to 1945.
Also, telling people how much they have âbenefitedâ from that evil is hardly an argument to use to win people (those were colonized or whose ancestors were slaves) over to your side.
So you are saying that the 4-6% of slaves sent to the US were fortunate compared to the vast majority who were worked to death. Interesting perspective.