Fenton Lum
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Slavery is practiced in the Islamic world, but why bring that into a discussion about America?As soon as you locate these slaves working on cocoa, tea, bananas, palm oil, sugar cane, and coffee in America, I'm all for getting reperations to them.I'm 100% behind any American who was held as a slave getting reperations.Yeah...the democrats keep bitching about reparations for slavery for people who were never slaves in order to punish people who never owned slaves.....
this article points out why they should be careful what they ask for...because the truth about slavery is not what the democrats want....
Keeping in mind.....if blacks want reparations....they really need to sue the democrat party......the members of that party having actually been the slave owners....
Blog: Why we should welcome a real trial about slave reparations
The legal discovery that would accompany any slave reparations trial would have and make public that the Ottoman Empire kept “slave armies.” Note that we are now talking about Muslims or the ancestors of Muslims being responsible for not only the beginnings of slavery, but also for the word “slave” itself. Think of how much American students might have to be forced to learn. In the 1970s, there was a wildly popular TV miniseries called Roots, in which the story of Alex Haley’s supposed ancestors came to this country. Forgetting the fact that Mr. Haley was forced to admit he plagiarized the entire story, and that the story Mr. Haley told never could have occurred as it was told in the miniseries, many people today actually believe that Roots and the story told was an accurate historical account – especially the part about how Kunta Kinte was captured by whites, aka Christians. In actuality, the overwhelming majority of slave trading was done through Muslim slave traders. And African nations profited off selling their “black brothers and sisters.” The Nyamwezi tribe of modern day Tanzania helped to establish a slave pipeline that started in Angola.
The Dahomey (now Benin) nation rulers profited off the slave trade. In the 1840s, King Gezo said he would “do anything the British would want apart from giving up the slave trade.” We haven’t even touched on the number of African-Americans who not only owned but also traded slaves. One of the more famous of the black plantation owners was Nicolas Metoyer, who along with his family owned over 200 slaves.
And how about the African-Americans who owned white slaves? Think this didn’t occur? In the late 1600s through early 1700s, black males were buying indentured servants (usually white) for their farms.
If you want to have a real debate about race relations in the USA, as all liberals say they want to have, great, let’s bring it on. Talk about slavery throughout history, and how Muslims profited off the slave trade as much if not more than did Christians. How blacks have sold their own “brothers and sisters” into slavery. We as Americans should and need to stop being afraid of offending someone, and teach real and true history. Who knows, maybe it would get some of our youngsters to start appreciating their country again? And who knows? Maybe, just maybe, the Israelis would get a nice reparations check from Egypt and other Arab nations.
Read more: Blog: Why we should welcome a real trial about slave reparations
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"Forced labor in agriculture is also very prevalent, and it’s discussed in 126 narratives; 67% of the countries covered in the Report. We saw forced labor in agricultural, including the United States. The Report describes activities as diverse as cattle herding and cultivating, cocoa, tea, potatoes, bananas, palm oil, sugar cane, and coffee. I’ve had many of those things in the last week. And I can’t tell you whether or not they came from a place that was exploitation-free, despite the fact of what I do for a living."
As in "illegals". You could drill down into this more if you were interested,
Modern Day Slavery and What We Buy
Forced migrant labor
People may be enticed to migrate with the promise of work, only to have their documents seized and to be forced to work under the threat of violence to them or their families.[14] Illegal immigrants may also be taken advantage of; without legal residency, they often have no recourse to the law. Along with sex slavery this is the form of slavery most often encountered in wealthy countries such as the United States, in Western Europe, and in the Middle East.
Contemporary slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Five plead guilty in Immokalee slavery case
Amy Bennett Williams
Ft. Myers News-Press
09/03/2008
Five Immokalee residents pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges of enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan workers, brutalizing them and forcing them to work in farm fields.
Five plead guilty in Immokalee slavery case | International Labor Rights Forum
Isn't Immokalee in Florida?
We saw forced labor in agricultural, including the United States?
often encountered in wealthy countries such as the United States?
Nevermind, if you don't wanna know I can't help ya.
If you'd gone through the thread you would have seen some other little smartass make a comment about being happy to pay reparations if he could find slavery in america NOW. I offered some examples. Not that I give two fucks about any reparations, but to attempt to encourage a fellow american to think more critically about our own society. If we're going to be OK with slavery here and call attention to slavery in Islamic societies fine, just say so. I'm ok with that.
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