Why have Americans been conditioned to think that stating the facts about the history of slavery is a racist act?

[RingOfFire]

Let's get the facts about slavery straight as inconvenient as it may be for the narrative of the left. It's not racism, it's historical fact.

America is where slavery came to die. The American Republican Party was created for the very purpose of abolishing slavery by defeating the Democratic Party - which was the party founded for the purpose of representing slave owners and perpetuating black slavery.

Republicans recognized that this age-old practice was an abomination of morality. That was a revelation at that time as it was just accepted all over the world that blacks were subservient and meant to serve as slaves.

Slavery was the norm back then practiced in many places around the world. It's not "America's dark past," it's the human race's dark past.

In fact, black Africans were enslaving each other for thousands of years before America even existed. Tribal warfare and slavery for the losing tribe was standard practice among African blacks. They actually invented the practice of slavery. And later they sold their slaves in a thriving slave trade to other places including America. It was a big, lucrative business for black Africans for centuries.

In fact it is blacks enslaving other blacks in some parts of Africa to this day which is one of the few vestiges of human slavery still remaining in human civilization.

Inconvenient truth for political race baiting pimps on the left, but truth just the same.

[OlderAndWiser]

Facts: Abraham Lincoln, in the first Lincoln-Douglas debate at Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858, addressing the issue of slavery:

"Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not. * * *

"Now, gentlemen, I don't want to read at any greater length, but this is the true complexion of all I have ever said in regard to the institution of slavery and the black race. * * * I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becom0es a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."

www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debate1.htm

[RingOfFire]

Never look only at what politicians say, focus on what they do. You have to look at the context of this quote.

Lincoln said this as a political negotiation to try to prevent the southern states from seceding from the union before he could win the election. That would have been a disaster. At the time he said it there was already serious talk that if he insisted on abolishing slavery, and became president, that they would secede. By the time he became president, a couple of years after this, he was completely committed to abolishing slavery and willing to fight a war to do it.

[alli-112]

Slavery in Europe/America was very different from slavery in Africa and other historic/ancient societies. It was harsher, more deadly, more degrading, and overall far more harmful. I'm not arguing in favor of slavery of any kind, but there was a distinct difference in the attitudes towards slaves and slavery. Slaves in Africa, and in many other cultures, still has varying degrees of rights and protections, and often had some chance of freedom in the long term. This was not the case in the early US.

And yes, European/American slavery was inherently racist in ways that African slavery was not. African slaves were usually the product of localized conflict between small states or due to issues like debt or crime, it wasn't about race. In the west however, simply being of African decent was all it took for a person to be stripped of their personhood and rendered private property. No rights, no protections, almost no judgement no matter how inhumanely a person was treated because the Europeans & Americans did not consider slaves to be people.

You don't need to carry personal guilt over the birth of America, nor do you need to agree with arguments regarding race based reparations, etc. But the US's history of chattel slavery is both historical fact and deeply racist, there's no need to pretend otherwise.

[RingOfFire]

You have got to be kidding me. African slavery was barbaric. Learn your history and stop trying to rewrite it to fit the anti-American narrative.

[RingOfFire]

Africa is one of the few places in the world where slavery is STILL practiced to this day with blacks enslaving other blacks in countries like Nigeria,
Mauritania, and South Sudan among others.

They practice such things as holding young girls, children, as captive sex slaves and holding children captive to perform forced labor.

Is that the more refined and genteel African brand of slavery you are referring to?

[Anonymous]

Because in their mind regardless of truth you are taking away African Americans victim status and that only white people can slave owning monsters.

I've even heard people say that African slavery was different than slavery in America with protections and no slaves had it worse than those in the Americas which is bullshit because African slaves thrived in the Americas compared to africa and the middle east, the arabs for instance cut off the genitals of African men. In Europe for instance people think of slaves as working in some villia but the truth is they were probably used for farming or worse as mine and quarry workers in the Roman empires vast mining and quarry operations.

There's a real attempt at painting a narrative based on American wole politics on slavery.

[RingOfFire]

All you need to do is read the other comment that was posted at the same time as yours to know what you just said is absolutely true.

[Opinion Owner]

Mines would not be as big since Roman times until the 1800s when they started using steam engines.
Great documentary on roman mining, its an hour long.
https://youtu.be/2pLjzlSz4R4?si=i9d6IOReKaBLbFJA

[Anonymous]

It's because they're being manipulated by Democrats and the media into feeling guilty for things they aren't responsible for. Through that guilt, stupid woke people are then manipulated into voting for Democrats and backing bad policies like affirmative action and reparations.

[RingOfFire]

Precisely right.

[RavVid]

Lincoln was republican wasn't he?

I think the role of burning lots of coal and oil should be acknowledge because that enabled machines and machines were better than slaves.

[RingOfFire]

Yes Lincoln was the first Republican president.

[RavVid]

Ironic.

Our Left started as a working man's party but has ended up as an university graduate party that has destroyed the working class jobs and put them on welfare.

I suppose you can say they liberated them from the wage slavery by doing this.

[RingOfFire]

Well sort of. The Democrats started off as the working man's party, but not in the sense you mean. They started off representing the slave owners who had the slaves working for them. The Democrat party was founded to protect slave owners.

I maintain that they haven't changed. Today their focus is on keeping minorities in poverty and dependent on them to buy their votes. So they are still the party of slavery in my view.

[RingOfFire]

One of my favorite videos...

https://youtu.be/n_YQ8560E1w?feature=shared

[RavVid]

I take your 'well sort of'. But it has kinda ended up the same in the Left creating & needing a mendicant class whose votes can be bought fairly cheaply. Much the same deal.

I can see the Left as a party of slavery. Elbert's speech was quite powerful.

[RingOfFire]

That was his finest moment. Frankly all the other times I've seen him he's really not that sharp or clear. But he nailed it in this video.

[RavVid]

Unlimited takes and edits might assist :). I do think it transcended US politics in the message.

The Left is inherently elitist. They always wanted the Workers of the World to Unite... under their elite leadership of course

[exitseven]

I saw this today and thought it was appropriate.

[Dargil]

Lefties need faux facts to support a victim narrative.

[NathanDavis]

slavery still exists in America

and that's a fact

[RingOfFire]

You are correct about that. The Democrats are in a conspiracy with the media, the teacher's unions and other nefarious groups to keep black people dependent on them. The Democrats make sure blacks are forced to attend failing public schools in the inner cities where most black people live instead of giving them school choice like the Republicans want to do, and the teacher's unions make sure they get poor educations so they cannot earn a living and end up on the Democrat plantation dependent on welfare and doomed to a life of Democrat slavery.

If you've ever wondered why 95% of teacher's unions campaign contributions go to Democrats, this is it. They are in a corrupt conspiracy to make the union leaders rich (not the rank-and-file teachers) and give Democrat politicians power over minorities that the minorities cannot escape. They buy their votes with welfare while keeping them dependent on them to keep them in power.

The Democrats were founded as the slaveowners' party, and they are still the party of black slavery to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMx23FMo10U

[seeyounexttuesday]

Because it's all part of the marxist agenda to make people feel guilty for crimes they had no part in.

[FunkyMonkee]

Only the stupid Americans! The democrats!!