Do you agree with this view of slavery?

[lightbulb27]

Agree

Disagree - and why

Other

[Miah04]

The miseducation of American slavery by black people are the reason white people don't understand our plight.

Slavery ended but it wasn't until 60 years ago that we were truly free of laws that kept us as lower class citizens.

It's not the slavery that hurt us. It was the laws to keep us uneducated and poor, and lesser citizens that got us behind. The slavery was a horrible vial act, but it isn't why we are behind.

But also now democrats are trying to convince us to be victims, who go we can never do anything because of racism. so why try.

The truth is we are just behind, and starting to catch up now, that we have equal opportunities.

My generation's children, if they keep the democrats brainwashing out of their head, will show America how much we can achieve when given the same starting chances.

My parents generation already shows how we are now having more middle class black families, more wealthy moguls, and so on.

Each generation we will keep evening the playing field

[lightbulb27]

Very well said!

[superchan2011]

Another reason that white people will never understand black peoples plight is because they were the ones causing the plight in the first place. They were the ones behind slavery, they were the ones who set up the fucked up system to be against minorities and for them. They caused a lot of the disadvantages to minorities around the world. It's hard to understand the suffering of others when you caused it.

[Miah04]

@superchan2011 one of example of a law that was used was segregation the law was ended in 1964.
the white guilt statement is wrong.
A white person that was born 1947 would of been too young to even vote to keep or get rid of laws that was in place that held us down.

Saying white people now owe us, or held us down is racist and makes no sense.

I do not wish to he held accountable for things or crimes my parents committed so why should white people be held accountable for things that their ancestors might have done.

And being white does not mean they have not felt racism, or discrimination.
This is the brain washing the Democratic party is putting in their voters heads.
I mean so many people swear only white people can be racist, only white people have privileges, only white people have the ability to hold other races down.
Even though there's clear evidence at every race can and have done this to people here in America.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

For sure but it also seems like the most basic understanding of history to me.

I was rather horrified to encounter propaganda videos on YouTube claiming that chattel slavery was invented by white Europeans with so many likes and comments in approval. That's so off even chronologically with the most ancient civilizations selling and trading slaves on the market.

Also a lot of Americans I've spoken to about this seem almost oblivious about the nature and atrocities of the Trans-Saharan slave trade. We don't hear about it as much perhaps because the African male slaves were castrated and the female slaves were assimilated into the Arab culture as concubines and house slaves yet it's arguably what made slavery so rampant among African kingdoms and tribes.

We also had a history of slavery here in Japan which was only abolished in the late 16th century. Japanese largely enslaved each other being on an island nation with little contact with the outside world for the bulk of our history.

Slavery actually is the default nature of human beings as I see it. We live in an enlightened and unnatural state in developed nations that we no longer enslave each other, yet if society unravels and collapses, I would expect slavery to emerge again. That's just a very unfortunate nature of human beings when small tribes begin to scale into something working towards a civilization.

[lightbulb27]

for sure. we'd be there if not for laws... for some are very rich and others poor without shelter. it is only the govt moving $ around by inflation that soothes the system.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

On that topic and combined with this one, one thing that I found really interesting speaking to a history major is with respect to currency and credit. I was under the classical view they tend to teach in Economics 101 that currency was a way to streamline the inefficiencies of barter and that notions like credit superseded currency.

She claimed there's a very good chance it's the opposite and that credit preceded currency to streamline barter. If someone owes us a couple of goats, we make a formal record of it and hold them indebted.

Then she proceeded and said perhaps that's how slavery emerged. Initially it might have taken on the form of indentured servitude when someone can't pay the 2 goats in the hypothetical above, so they end up being forced to pay off the debt with their bodies and labor.

If we start scaling that notion beyond the individual, then families might give away family members to pay for their debts, tribes might give away tribe members, and so forth, and soon we start to approach lifelong indentured servitude and ultimately chattel slavery.

There was a lot of conjecture involved there although she pointed some research to me that supported this view of history. It does make a lot of intuitive sense to me at least that slavery ultimately arose out of the notion of credit.

[LordMadara]

Maaaaan stfu don't even wanna watch the video , yt is not a reliable source vloggers of youtube are almost 99% not humans the 1% humans are just following the status quo ,

In addition to that yt doesn't allow conspiracy theories (sometimes truth covered in disgust)

For the most part , SLAVERY OF BLACK AMERICANS didn't START IN AFRICA , there were ALREADY BLACK AMERICANS IN AMERICA before THE REPTILES (or Joowish Rich Merchants posing as europeans) imported more black people under the guise of economic opportunity elsewhere (note that) the term SLAVERY is a mental brainwashing mechanism to discredit black people's history.

Of those black americans who hopped on the boats from africa to US they account for 0.1% the rest were indigenous / native americans,

You don't have any records of African names under your belts

You don't talk like us

You are a completely different breed to us in africa

Hell . . . west Africans are are also a different breed from southern African peoples

Don't LET REPTILIAN GOONS FOOL YOU

[lightbulb27]

you can't agree or disagree with the video if you don't watch it.

[7Phoenix7]

Im trying to figure out the point of the video. Are schools failing so bad that this video needed to be created to teach us adults basic history? Do many people not know that slavery existed in other places?

With that being said, I agree with @miah04 .

[lightbulb27]

apparently so. I can't say my kids have much of a broad understanding and it may be more the social stigma how it is portrayed as one dimensional issue.

[Miah04]

It's a deflection. Slavery exists in other places doesn't mean we go. Well who cares.
It doesn't matter if it was socially exceptable or not. Slave owners were vial people.

No matter what is said. All slave owners are disgusting vial people and should never be praised or excused for their behavior.

If anyone says well everyone did it back then so it's not a big deal to kidnap, rape, torture and murder people so , they didn't have to work. Has serious morale issues

[lightbulb27]

@Miah04 you are saying the video is a deflection? first sentence, you lost me.

[Miah04]

The video, and the posting of it.

It doesn't serve any purpose but to go. See America didn't do anything wrong by kidnapping and raping and torturing people.

Everyone knows what other countries did.
We don't live there.
It doesn't change the horrible atrocities that this country did to our ancestors, and that doesn't change that after slavery americans saw us as freed property that needed laws in place to keep us down and controlled.

So yes other countries had slavery and still do.
But tell me why does that matter?
How does that knowledge make what happened to our ancestors better?
How does that knowledge make the hundred years of lynching any better?
How does that make the old man in my town feel better about a group of white men cutting his penis off because he gave a white woman a ride home because her car broke down?
It is a deflection and a way to feel better about horrible actions done by america.

[Miah04]

And my last question.
How many slaves went.

Slave 1: i am so miserable and suffer these horrific atrocities.

Slave 2: but other countries have slaves too
Slave 1: oh never mind I'm ok with it now

[7Phoenix7]

@Miah04

Wife: Babe, you cheated on me... my heart is broken.

Husband: well this is not just a me and you thing, women are getting cheated on all over the world. Matter of fact, some dude is cheating right now... somewhere.

😂😂

[Miah04]

😂😂
Wife: oh never mind. You did nothing wrong. Thanks for clearing that up

[OtterMan68]

Slavery has been around for thousands of years.

Because A had slavery, it doesn't excuse B having slavery.

ANY country that enslaved people should teach that period of that country's history was abhorent and shameful and teach how the slaves in that country were treated: beaten, raped, sold away from family, etc.

To say "Well, slavery existed before it existed in my country, so that makes what happened in my country not that bad,' is ignorant.

Slavery still exists: we just call it human trafficking, but that does not make what happened in the US prior to the 13th Amendment any better.

[laly520]

lot aren't educated

sad

[BarryLiverstone]

Don’t agree with it