Don 🍋 getting owned about reparations. 😂
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There seems to be an assumption in the US that slavery was only ever imposed by white people on black people. That is simply not true. Africans raided Ireland to acquire slaves, for instance!
If you look at the history of ALL slavery you will find out that people of all colours enslaved people of all colours. Also, many white people, and no doubt others, fought to stop slavery. If you want to go down the reparations route then things get complicated very quickly if you want to do it right.
Obviously, just getting white people to pay black people is much easier and only sounds right if you ignore the facts.
Hold up, you are promoting a mis-truth as well. :)
The US never imposed slavery. It was inherited from England.
And while they can claim to be "the first nation to abolish slavery" in the history of the world, no nation abolished it faster than the USA. A mere 87 years after its founding the USA signed the emancipation proclamation. It took England almost 900 years to reach that point.
What kind of excuse is that? Well, it wasn't England's fault, we inherited it from the Romans, they inherited it from the Greeks and they got it from the Minoans ...
The ancient Egyptians had slaves and we all still do. These days we concentrate on the movement of slaves rather than their work after they arrive so it is now called human trafficking.
Excuse? Its a fact. Slavery was here well over 150 years before the USA existed. An entire economy was built around it. When a ship changes course, the course change is almost immediate but the destination takes time. 1776 was a course change.
Once we were a nation, slavery was targeted. The first salvo was our Declaration of Independence. "All men are created equal..." The second salvo was a Constitution that recognized rights of all people. From there, the people of this great nation took over and worked against it. Eventually forming a political party to drive it out, which lead to a civil war. So it took a few decades to work through the process, but it was always the direction we were headed. The price you pay when you refuse to be lead by kings.
the economy grew faster in the free north than the slave south....America grew Despite slavery.
Was slavery ever made legal in the UK?
I do not believe so, but I never said it did. It did participate in it, including on the shores of America. As did the USA for a short period (in the grand scheme of things).
My original point was only that America did not impose it, as you said. Impose, means force it. As a nation, the US never imposed slavery. It was already here and we quickly worked to dispatch it.
I am guessing you are from England. I am not judging England and especially not you. Just defending the USA against the narrative that it imposed slavery, which is akin more to the '1619 Project' view of the world and false.
Indentured servants
Sadly
Muslims were really avid slavers. They captured Millions of white Slavs and sold them into slavery. Millions. Then there were the Janissaries, who were captured and enslaved white boys taken from their families and sent to elite training at the Pasha's palaces. And, almost all the black slaves in Africa were captured by Muslim slavers. Muslims were behind it all.
I'm going to simplify this even more.
History has not been kind to anyone
Regardless of age, race, sex, socioeconomic status, history is full of humans being terrible to other humans
What color were the egyptians?
I think it depends on which end of the Nile they come from.
Amazing how the left melts with any level of truth. Truth always seems to fly in the face of their bull shit social justice narratives.
Brilliant. Truth will always prevail. Take that lemon squeezy
I didn't hear a discussion. I heard lemon get pounded.
Glorious
That was fantastic 🤣🍿🤣🍿🤣🍿
Sorry, Don, but glasses can't make a wobbleheaded dolt like you look intelligent.
The minute he says reparations, you see her crack a slight smile -- she was ready.