“Michael Medved: “Though Brutal, Slavery Wasn’t Genocidal”–Nice Door Prize”

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1. Slavery was an ancient and universal institution, not a distinctly American innovation.

Maybe so, but they took it to a new level, didn’t they?

2. Slavery existed only briefly, and in limited locales, in the history of the republic – involving only a tiny percentage of the ancestors of today’s Americans.

Um, the first slaves were brought to this country in, what, 1619, slavery wasn’t officially abolished until 1865. That’s over 200 years slavery existed on this soil. Add in another 100 years of Jim Crow, and America didn’t ‘ officially’ become ‘ free’, living up to its creed, until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – a full 185 years after the ‘ official’ beginning of this country. Be picky and tack on the 150 years more before the shots fired on July 4th, and there we have, what, THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE YEARS of the official, codified in law, degredation of African people in The United States.

That he so ‘conveniently’ forgets about the 200+ years before the ‘official’ founding of this country, and therefore complete dismissing, disregarding, disrespecting the Africans who suffered through the inhumanity of slavery is appalling, but not surprising.

3. Though brutal, slavery wasn’t genocidal: live slaves were valuable but dead captives brought no profit.

Now while he actually admits that MILLIONS of Africans were ‘lost’ (MURDERED) during The Middle Passage, it’s all an ‘ oh well’ from him.

4. It’s not true that the U.S. became a wealthy nation through the abuse of slave labor: the most prosperous states in the country were those that first freed their slaves.

One of the benefits from the Reparations Movement, IMO, is the information that has been revealed about this country. Under every corner of this country’s wealth, seeps out some sort of slave legacy.

May I suggest Some Books:

Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited From Slavery

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream by Lerone Bennett

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett

5. While America deserves no unique blame for the existence of slavery, the United States mertis special credit for its rapid abolition.

Who the hell is he kidding. While ‘ slavery’ was abolished in 1865, this country didn’t live up to its full creed ON PAPER until 1964 – what, another NINETY-NINE YEARS LATER.

6. There is no reason to believe that today’s African-Americans would be better off if their ancestors had remained behind in Africa.

You know what, that’s not for him or anyone else White to decide. It’s so preposterous on its face, it’s disgusting.

This entire ‘ slavery wasn’t really that bad’ bullshit has got to stop. No matter how many of these liars try and pretend that the BLACK HOLOCAUST DIDN’T HAPPEN – IT DID. And, unlike ‘ bad old times’, we Nigras today, aren’t going to let this ignorant racist drivel go unchallenged. Despite Medved and his ilk, we’re free, and that means you don’t get to say shit like this without opposition. You don’t get to define our past. We will NEVER FORGET Medved, and we sure in hell aren’t going to let your ilk define OUR HISTORY.

NEVER AGAIN.