history is being discussed everyday,, what isnt being included in that history is that even white people were taken as slave in africa as well as here by the american indians,,
what youre complaining about is a revisionist history that directs the oppressive being only white people when the truth is all races enslaved other races including their own,,
and you mentor from 1930s germany banned books from all walks of life as well as silencing people that disagreed with him like the dems are doing as we speak,,,
There is nothing to commend, condone, or justify slavery. But it happened and is still happening in some parts of the world. But when it comes to the history of slavery, justice, reparation, and all that, what the 'woke' left does not want to admit:
--at the time America allowed slavery, so did most of the rest of the world.
--It was not white slave traders who went into the jungles of the gold coast of Africa to capture people to be slaves but almost exclusively other black people.
--It was not Americans who brought the slaves to America but most white slave traders who were Portuguese, British, and French and a few others.
--Far more slaves were delivered to islands in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South American than were delivered to the American colonies.
--Many if not most black people living in America today did not descend from slaves.
--No black people, or maybe a very few, living in America today were ever slaves or had parents who were slaves, and the large majority never experienced any form of segregation.
--While the Founders thought it more important to form a union of American colonies and establish states rights from the outset, they also stopped any new slaves being brought to America and forbade any U.S. territories from becoming slave states.
--Hundreds of thousands of white people risked all, suffered, lost all including their lives to win the Civil War and thus sustaining the Union and by default freeing all the slaves in the slave states. (Those slaves in the northern slave state were not automatically freed.)
--Many innocent non slave owners in the south were also killed, their property ransacked or destroyed and an estimated tens of thousands starved or died from injuries in the wake of the union army.
General Grant and General Lee were both products of their culture. Lee has been condemned and excoriated, his statues and historical markers destroyed or removed because he inherited slaves from his parents even though he freed those slaves long before the end of the Civil War. Grant on the other hand did not own slaves but he was a strong anti-semite who once ejected all the Jews from territory he controlled. Nevertheless he is held up as a great hero by the left while Lee is despised.
All this is to say that if we are going to teach history, it must be ALL the history, even that which does not fit the narrative any particular ideology wants to emphasize.
"Tom Sawyer" "Huckleberry Finn" "Gone with the Wind" and all the great historical novels that most of us grew up with should still be on every reading list as all are fairly accurate descriptions of the way the people of that time thought, lived, expressed themselves.
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Bathed in fear.
