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The Other Slavery exposes the 1619 Project’s fraud

According to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s myth , U.S. history didn’t really begin until August 1619, when about 20 slaves were sold to the governor of the Virginia colony by a British privateer. This “beginning of American slavery” is central to our nation’s history, Hannah-Jones argues, because black Americans would go on to become “the perfecters of this democracy.”

The problem is, like every claim Hannah-Jones makes, the claim that slavery began in America in 1619 is a fiction to begin with. Now, a new project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is unintentionally exposing that fraud.

by Blazingcatfur•October 11, 2022October 11, 2022•0•slavery, Slavery and Reparations

Republicans attack Matt Walsh for telling the truth about slavery

One of the most pernicious things that has happened recently in America is the 1619 Project, an error-riddled “history” of the United States that presents our nation as one predicated solely on the evils of African slavery, beginning when Europeans first set foot on North American soil. This original sin, says the 1619 Project, tainted everything that followed. Therefore, only racists can love America. Obviously, Democrats embraced this history, but, when commentator Matt Walsh discussed the larger history of world slavery, he learned that some Republicans don’t want the truth to be put out there, either.

by Blazingcatfur•August 2, 2022August 2, 2022•0•slavery

West Point expected to be ordered to take down portrait of Robert E. Lee

The commission that was established to rename military bases that honor Confederate generals is expected to recommend that West Point remove the 20-foot portrait of Lee in his gray Confederate uniform, according to two people familiar with the group’s deliberations.

by Sarcasticat•June 5, 2022June 4, 2022•0•history, History - distortion of, slavery

Harvard University pledges $100 million for slavery reparations

Harvard University released a report last week about the institution’s legacy of slavery and racism and pledged to spend $100 million to fund programs addressing its past wrongs.

The findings come some three years after Harvard President Larry Bacow began the initiative in 2019. On April 26, Bacow announced the findings and provided his recommendations for the university.

“The truth is that slavery played a significant part in our institutional history. The truth is that the legacy of slavery continues to influence the world in the form of disparities in education, health, wealth, income, social mobility, and almost any other metric we might use to measure equality,” said Bacow in a video announcement.

by Sarcasticat•May 8, 2022May 7, 2022•0•Reparations, slavery, Slavery and Reparations

Enslavement of the Black by the White: ‘The Bedrock of the West’?

In August 2019, The New York Times initiated The 1619 Project, consisting of a collection of articles designed to illustrate that slavery was “one primary reason the colonists fought the American Revolution”. This project is directed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, a New York Times staff reporter who is not a historian but an avowed “critical race theory” activist. ^[2]

When American historians denounced the obvious falsehood of this assertion, and its revisionist and negationist nature against proven, documented and source-based historical reality, The New York Times altered the original version of the articles in question to say “some” colonists fought to defend the practice of slavery.

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2021November 20, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, slavery

Uh oh: Genealogist discovers Joe Biden’s slave-owning ancestors

The president is the descendant of slave owners!

IMPEACH!

by Sarcasticat•September 15, 2021September 15, 2021•0•"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", slavery

The Graph That Shatters CRT: July 4, 1776 Set Slavery on the Path to Worldwide Extinction

As America celebrates the 245th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this July 4, the legacy of the Declaration is under attack like perhaps never before. Much of the American left has adopted the view—one even espoused by Joe Biden’s Ambassador to the United Nations—that the Declaration is a “white supremacist” document. This is among the central notions of what has become known as Critical Race Theory. Yet this idea, so crucial to the thinking of the modern left, is not only not true, but the clear historical record shows that the exact opposite is true. The Declaration of Independence did not forever enshrine slavery and racism into the soul of America—it set slavery on the path to inevitable global extinction.

by Sarcasticat•July 6, 2021July 5, 2021•0•history, History - distortion of, slavery, USA

Slave Stories History ‘Forgot.’ Black People Owned Slaves Too

Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry were wealthy landowners in South Carolina’s Colleton District in the 1830s, in what is now Charleston County. The couple owned 84 slaves each for a total of 168, at a time when most of their peers owned a handful. Their slaves worked their plantation and made them rich. Angel and Horry also traded slaves for profit, showing no regard for dissolving slave families. They were no kinder or crueler to their slaves than anyone else. They were considered “slave magnates” because of the number of slaves they owned. They were referred to as the “economic elite.” They were also black.

by Sarcasticat•June 22, 2021June 21, 2021•0•history, History - distortion of, slavery

Senate passes bill to make Juneteenth federal holiday, memorializing end of slavery

The bill would make Juneteenth the 12th federal holiday. The holiday commemorated when the last enslaved Americans learned they were free – on June 19, 1865 – after Union soldiers brought news of the Emancipation Proclamation to Galveston, Texas, at the end of the First Civil War.

To commemorate this holiday, the descendants of slaves will bestow their praise and gratitude onto the descendants of the people who freed them, as well as pledging to be proud, patriotic US citizens.

by Sarcasticat•June 17, 2021June 16, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", slavery

Africa’s “Bigger Slave Problem” – More pressing than Democrats’ quest for reparations.

Africa is again the world’s epicenter of modern-day slavery

Last year Joe Biden said African Americans who don’t support him “ain’t black,” but this year the Delaware Democrat is open to reparations for slavery, America’s “original sin,” according to the composite character president David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. A neglected historical account provides enlightenment on slavery’s true origins and its most enduring practitioners.

In 1856, British Army officer John Hanning Speke set out to find the source of the Nile. Speke’s massive Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile documents the African societies he found, and the widespread practice of slavery. “To catch slaves is the first thought of every chief in the interior,” Speke wrote, “Hence fights and slavery impoverish the land.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2021March 31, 2021•0•Africa, slavery, Slavery and Reparations

Top Biden adviser Richmond suggests White House will move on reparations without Congress

White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond says it’s “doable” for the Biden administration to make first-term progress on racial equality, while Congress studies reparations for slavery.

h/t Marvin

by Sarcasticat•March 14, 2021March 14, 2021•0•"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Reparations, slavery, Slavery and Reparations