#7 Sent to me this morning by a co-worker:
Seldom taught history. You may have already seen this. I don’t typically pass these along; however, it was interesting.
True history of slavery, and reminders of how easy it is to "revise" it. And the last comment says it all.
As maniacal as it is, it’s hard to ignore this latest leftist drool about statues and monuments.
They do not have, and do not want any perspective because it is all just political for them.
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black, but because they were available.
Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years.
Whites enslaved whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere
Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans and even today, in North Africa blacks continue to enslave other blacks. Slavery has existed since the Old Testament Biblical times.
A bit of history that is conveniently ignored; between 1500 and the 1860s at least 12 million Africans were brought to the ‘New World’ of the Americas.
Of these 12 million forced into slavery, less than 500,000 were brought to North America. The remaining 2,500,000 Africans went to South America and the Caribbean. By the mid-1600s Europeans were outnumbered by Africans in cities such as Mexico City, Havana and Lima.
A few more historical facts:
1. The first legal slave owner in American history was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson; https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_ Johnson_(colonist)
2. North Carolina’s largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison; https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Ellison
3. American Indians owned thousands of black slaves;
http://www.smithsonianmag. com/history/an-ancestry-of- african-native-americans- 7986049/
4. In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves; http://www. ironbarkresources.com/slaves/ whiteslaves05.htm
5. Many black slaves were allowed to hold jobs, own businesses and own real estate;
6. Brutal black on black slavery was common in Africa for thousands of years; https://townhall.com/ columnists/michaelmedved/2007/ 09/26/six-inconvenient-truths- about-the-us-and-slavery- n876052
7. Most slaves brought from Africa to America were purchased from black slave owners; http://www. digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_ textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=445
8. White people ended legal chattel slavery; This is a useless fact. Since black slaves couldn’t vote and had no rights, it would have been impossible for them to end slavery.
And turning to the present:
1. Barack Obama, who has stoked the fires of racial hatred for the last eight years, is the direct paternal descendant of slave owners;
2. You certainly won't hear CNN's Anderson Cooper mentioning Obama's sordid family history, lest Obama might remind Cooper, the son of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, that his family also was slave owners;
3. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who found some Lee and Jackson statues to remove from the Empire State, seems to have forgotten New York is named for one of the most notorious slave traders in history, the Duke of York. Better tear down that Big Apple, Andy.
4. Before defacing and tearing down statues became the latest Leftist fad, Virginia's carpet-bagging Clintonista, Gov. Terry McAuliffe, characterized the Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues on Richmond's Monument Avenue as "parts of our heritage." After Charlottesville, McAuliffe re-characterized them as "flash points for hatred, division and violence."
5. "Blacks who were never slaves are fighting whites who were never Nazis over a Confederate statue erected by southern Democrats because now Democrats can't stand their own history anymore......yet somehow, it's Trumps fault!"
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So says Maxine Waters, esteemed certifiable Congresswoman from California, who told MSNBC, the only network whose viewers are gullible enough to believe her, that the President’s tweets denouncing anthem protests by NFL players amounted to an impeachable offense.
