Beck Blames Evils of Slavery On Government Regulation

[Political Junky]

Beck is stark raving mad.

Glenn Beck Slavery | Glenn Beck on ObamaCare | Audio | Mediaite

"And it started small, and it started with seemingly innocent ideas. And then a little court order here, and a court order there and a little regulation here and a little more regulation there. And before we knew it, America had slavery.

It didn’t come over in a ship to begin with, as an evil slave trade. The government began to regulate things because the people needed answers and needed solutions. It started in a court room then it went to the legislatures. That’s how slavery began. And it took a long time to enslave an entire race of people, and convince another race of people that they were somehow or another, less than them. But it can be done."

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Goes back to Blackstone. Slavery can only exist by positive law.

 

[Avatar4321]

What exactly is stark raving mad about it?

 

[uscitizen]

Beck is a crock.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Whoopdeedoo! Just came on to post this one. You beat me to it,


and to think people here defend the guy.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

What exactly is stark raving mad about it?

 

[Avatar4321]

So Beck is a Crazy crock. Yet you cant exactly say why. What a shocker.

 

[uscitizen]

Whoopdeedoo! Just came on to post this one. You beat me to it,


and to think people here defend the guy.

he is the religious leader of some here.

Has he beroken his own pledge not to lie for 40 days again?

 

[Avatar4321]

What exactly is stark raving mad about it?

Yes, because emoticons are arguments.

 

[Oddball]

Goes back to Blackstone. Slavery can only exist by positive law.

Take it easy on the demagogic room-temperature-IQ little twirps.

It's much easier for them to screech about Beck being a loon than consider the more esoteric points of the matter.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Beck is a crock.

The first English colony in North America, Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice earlier established in the Spanish colonies as early as the 1560s. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Evidence of slavery predates written records, and has existed in many cultures.[12] Slavery is rare among hunter–gatherer populations, as slavery is a system of social stratification. Mass slavery also requires economic surpluses and a high population density to be viable. Due to these factors, the practice of slavery would have only proliferated after the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic revolution about 11,000 years ago.[13] The earliest records of slavery can be traced to the Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1760 BC), and the Bible refers to it as an established institution.[14]

Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

"And it started small, and it started with seemingly innocent ideas. And then a little court order here, and a court order there and a little regulation here and a little more regulation there. And before we knew it, America had slavery. - Glenn Beck

 

[Oddball]

How many of them volunteered to be slaves?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Staying on topic with Glenn Beck and his wild and crazy educational lectures...

 

[liebuster]

He actually gave a small lesson on the origins of slavery in this country. It had a lot to do with court cases that sent precidents and alowed it to continue for so long, but the original poster would never talk about that. Its much to easy just to dismiss Beck instead of prove him wrong......

 

[Sheldon]

Ultimately he's correct here. The early colonial courts did play a big role in making indentured servitude into chattel slavery. It became an ingrained social superstructure because the government bodies allowed, promoted, and enforced it--same with Jim Crow. The founding fathers could've killed slavery in Philly, and I think it was Jefferson who called the country eventually dividing over it.

But Becky made this point in his patented herp-a-derp way. Slave trade never needs evil as a qualifier, for one. It's amazing to me how such an inarticulate clown could have such an audience... and that applies to other talking heads.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Beck and his apologists on the innocence on Slavery's Roots in the American Colonies

He actually gave a small lesson on the origins of slavery in this country. It had a lot to do with court cases that sent precidents and alowed it to continue for so long, but the original poster would never talk about that. Its much to easy just to dismiss Beck instead of prove him wrong......

"And it started small, and it started with seemingly innocent ideas..." - Beck


The first English colony in North America, Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice earlier established in the Spanish colonies as early as the 1560s. - Dante/The Original Poster

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I. Slavery's Early Presence

A. First African-Americans that arrived in Jamestown in 1619 were brought as servants, not slaves.

B. Very small numbers of slaves in the Southern colonies in the early years. By 1650, only 300 blacks lived in Virginia

C. Slavery formally established by the House of Burgesses in 1670 with law declaring "all servants not being Christians imported into this colony by shipping shall be slaves for their lives."

D. By 1700 there were 25,000 slaves in the American colonies and by 1750 there were 100,000 slaves in Virginia, far outnumbering indentured servants.

1. Breaking of the Royal African Co. monopoly in 1697 opened the slave trade to competition, forcing prices down and increasing the number of slaves.

Colonial Slavery

So in 1750, the House of Burgesses (way over in Merry Olde England) established in law all non Christians as slaves for life, and the Southern slave holders go innocently from over 300 slaves to 25,000 slaves in less than 30 years?

Wow! The innocence and blaming government argument just blows me away.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Ultimately he's correct here. The early colonial courts did play a big role in making indentured servitude into chattel slavery. It became an ingrained social superstructure because the government bodies allowed, promoted, and enforced it--same with Jim Crow.

really? wow! you truly do live in a world of your own.

 

[topspin]

A couple things
of course Beck is a fuckign nut job
he is a religious leader, as evidenced by the white trash in big numbers here in love with him
he gave a lecture, really!!! The guy who couldn't stand the inside of a college is a lecturer.
He must have emptied the trailer park on that day.