Bad things happening to people is rarely about skin color.
For example:
In the 1850’s a railroad tunnel was being dug thru the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. During construction there was a railroad accident that killed two slaves.
Due to the value of slaves, all slaves were removed from the project and were replaced with Irish immigrants.
“In the current year, when the 1619 Project is considered history, Django Unchained is treated like a documentary, and Gone With the Wind has been thrown into the burn pile, most Americans have a very distorted understanding of how the institution of slavery operated on a day-to-day basis. Pop culture portrayals (the ones that have not been banned) would have us believe that sadistic Southern plantation owners routinely starved, beat and killed their slaves for the sheer thrill of it. When we meet Leonardo di Caprio’s planter character in Django Unchained, he is amusing himself by forcing two slaves to fight a gladiator death match. Well, as with all historical events that are integrated into a founding mythology – for example, the American Revolution, slavery & the Civil War, and World War 2 – the truth is a bit more complicated than the legend.”
For example:
In the 1850’s a railroad tunnel was being dug thru the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. During construction there was a railroad accident that killed two slaves.
Due to the value of slaves, all slaves were removed from the project and were replaced with Irish immigrants.
“In the current year, when the 1619 Project is considered history, Django Unchained is treated like a documentary, and Gone With the Wind has been thrown into the burn pile, most Americans have a very distorted understanding of how the institution of slavery operated on a day-to-day basis. Pop culture portrayals (the ones that have not been banned) would have us believe that sadistic Southern plantation owners routinely starved, beat and killed their slaves for the sheer thrill of it. When we meet Leonardo di Caprio’s planter character in Django Unchained, he is amusing himself by forcing two slaves to fight a gladiator death match. Well, as with all historical events that are integrated into a founding mythology – for example, the American Revolution, slavery & the Civil War, and World War 2 – the truth is a bit more complicated than the legend.”
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Slavery, company towns, and the World Economic Forum
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