what are you trying to prove by constantly bringing up slavery and HISTORY of injustice to blacks?And as we blacks all know, blacks were born on America soil into slavery. But you have to question why somebody wants to point out that the last person who lived through the middle passage died during jim crow. What is this person trying to prove?
That's a strange reaction.
It's the same one I get when I post in History or Race Relations (which this is) about the Tulsa or East St. Louis race riots or the history of lynchings. Certain wags (always predictable which ones) rush in to tell me to shut up. As if they expect me to hold the rug up while they sweep, rather than point out the dirt. I guess it's also the same ones who object to writing about the Lost Cause Cult.
I guess it just astounds me when somebody wants information suppressed. That's exactly why I looked up the slave ship above, because I saw the date 1860 and I knew that legal slave shipping had ceased in 1808. How can you not be curious about that?
I mean --- I learned something here. I can't figure out what the downside is to that.
IM2 is the one questioning the op. Miz Molly was questioning IM2 method of harping on past wrongs.
I agree that this historical factoid is interesting. I guess I had always assumed that there was SOME illegal shipping of slaves after the ban, but I did not know that any actual family lines had been traced like this.
There is a huge difference between learning about history and using history as a club.
Just because history might make your ancestors look bad does not mean that history is being used as a club. .....
Correct. It is when history is used as a club, to just bash a person's enemies for events long gone, that makes history into a club.
THat is not what the op is doing. It is what IM2 does ALL THE TIME.
I'm not seeing it. Can you quote it?
He is not doing it here. Miz Molly was asking about his standard behavior.
I mean, I'm sure, I could quote it. If you really feel you would benefit from it.