Jordan Peele's Documentary, High Horse

[el midgetron]

Thank God, the cowboys were black. Now the politically-incorrect children’s game “cowboys and Indians” is about how black people genocide’d the native Americans.

Jordan Peele's Documentary, High Horse: The Black Cowboy, Coming to Peacock (DETAILS)

Jordan Peele's Monkey Paw Productions brings High Horse: The Black Cowboy documentary to Peacock. Read more on NBC Insider.

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[yidnar]

Thank God, the cowboys were black. Now the politically-incorrect children’s game “cowboys and Indians” is about how black people genocide’d the native Americans.

Jordan Peele's Documentary, High Horse: The Black Cowboy, Coming to Peacock (DETAILS)

Jordan Peele's Monkey Paw Productions brings High Horse: The Black Cowboy documentary to Peacock. Read more on NBC Insider.

www.nbc.com

there were white and black cowboys ..

 

[el midgetron]

there were white and black cowboys ..

Like the guy from Star Trek?

 

[MarcATL]

there were white and black cowboys ..

However, the problem is that's not what most people believe was the case.

This is what this documentary seeks to rectify.

The OP seems to be in favor of the false history he's been given because it makes him feel good I guess.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Black men were called cowboys before it was cool, the main word being BOY. It amazes me how these racists try to change history.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Black men were called cowboys before it was cool, the main word being BOY. It amazes me how these racists try to change history.

The first cowboys were Irish. They called themselves cowboys.

 

[Hellokitty]

The first cowboys were Irish. They called themselves cowboys.

I thought it was a Spanish thing.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I thought it was a Spanish thing.

Not until later and only in the southwest. The first cattle drive was in 1654 from Springfield Connecticut to Boston Massachusetts. All the cowboys were Irish. The man that made the drive successful, however, was a black man named Peter Swank. The cowboys brought over a smaller Irish horse called the Irish Hobby Horse. Now extinct, they were the seeds from which American race horses were bred. The Naragansett Pacer is a direct descendant.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Very few if any cowboys were black. Black cowboys were virtually non existent until after the Civil War. Freed slaves started moving west looking for work.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

The first cowboys were Irish. They called themselves cowboys.

Not in America they weren't.

 

[Hellokitty]

However, the problem is that's not what most people believe was the case.

This is what this documentary seeks to rectify.

The OP seems to be in favor of the false history he's been given because it makes him feel good I guess.

Interesting. This should correct the record on all black people being slaves too I guess.

 

[Hellokitty]

Very few if any cowboys were black. Black cowboys were virtually non existent until after the Civil War. Freed slaves started moving west looking for work.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

As I said AFTER the civil war.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Not in America they weren't.

Well, yes. In America . Mid 1600s for a fact.

 

[Captain Creeper]

Black men were called cowboys before it was cool, the main word being BOY. It amazes me how these racists try to change histor

Think about this: Now we know that it was BLACK dudes screwing sheep on those lonely nights out on the range!

 

[yidnar]

Very few if any cowboys were black. Black cowboys were virtually non existent until after the Civil War. Freed slaves started moving west looking for work.

when do you think the time known as the WILD WEST occurred ?

The "Wild West" era, characterized by American westward expansion and settlement, generally spans from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to about 1890, though some sources extend this period to the early 1900s. Key events include the 1848 California Gold Rush, which fueled migration, the 1862 Homestead Act encouraging settlement, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, which further connected the West. The end of the era is often marked by the "closing of the frontier" around 1890 and the development of more established towns and law enforcement.

 

[yidnar]

Black men were called cowboys before it was cool, the main word being BOY. It amazes me how these racists try to change history.

whites were called cowboys too ..

 

[EvilCat Breath]

when do you think the time known as the WILD WEST occurred ?

The "Wild West" era, characterized by American westward expansion and settlement, generally spans from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to about 1890, though some sources extend this period to the early 1900s. Key events include the 1848 California Gold Rush, which fueled migration, the 1862 Homestead Act encouraging settlement, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, which further connected the West. The end of the era is often marked by the "closing of the frontier" around 1890 and the development of more established towns and law enforcement.

While this is certainly true. It in no way changes the historical fact that prior to the westward expansion, after the Civil War, the first cowboys were Irish and conducted the first cattle drive from the Springfield Connecticut estate of John Pyncheon known as Agarwam Plantation, to the auction houses of Boston, Massachusetts. This took place in 1654, well, WELL, before the civil war and the westward expansion.

Of course, this has nothing whatever to do with the wild west OR, the Spanish vaqueros that was the beginnings of the concept of the American cowboy.

As an anecdotal footnote, the Irish (who referred to themselves as cowboys) were so violent, lawless, murderous and destructive that people refused to call them cowboys and called them Irish Drovers instead.