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| Slavery, White Guilt, and the Politics of Absurdity |
| 2017-07-08 |
| [American Thinker] Black Lives Matter used the Fourth of July for its denigration of "racist" America. Accusations of American racism typically begin with references to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, although they do not end there. While the indictment is popular among those who disdain America, most people know less about the slave trade than the intensity of their contempt for America and white people would seem to indicate. A majority of "white America" are descendants of people who came to America during the great waves of European immigration from 1880 to 1924. Over a hundred million white Americans trace their ancestry to immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, which didn’t open until 1900. Most white Americans are descendants from people who came to these shores long after slavery was extinguished. The indictment of all white people for the evil of slavery because they share skin color with slave owners is an indulgence in absurdity. We are told not to judge all Muslims as terrorists or all blacks responsible for the crimes of individual blacks. Yet, for whites, the collective guilt is unending. It is propagated in our universities under the now theological dictates of white privilege and white guilt. The Eastern and Southern Europeans who came here primarily during the period of 1880-1924 had no participation in the slave trade except to have had some of their forbearers taken as slaves by Muslim slavers from North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. For over two hundred years, during the mid-1600s to the 1830s, Barbary Muslims trafficked in white European Christians. The Ottoman Muslims trafficking in White Christian slavery started even earlier, in the 15th century. All in all, Muslims enslaved more than two million white European Christians. Barbary slavers nearly depopulated the coastal villages of Southern Europe and went as far north as Iceland and Scotland to conduct slave raids. Ottoman Turks went into Russia to procure slaves. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 I lived in Lomé, Togo for 2 years. There are 2 main ethnic groups - the Kabye in the north and the Ewe in the south. While the Kabye were (and still are) more warrior-like, it was the Ewe that sold the Kabye to the slavers after capturing them. 400 hundred years later the Kabye are still talking about what the Ewe did to them. BLM - I had a direct descendant die flighting for the Blue at Chickamauga. Mom's side didn't get here until the 1890s. Every generation has served this nation including mom and dad (USAF), brother (101st), other brother (USMC) and me (USMC). I don't owe you squat. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2017-07-08 15:36 |
| #6 I'll agree to reparation payments. Here's the deal: 1. You surrender US citizenship 2. You take your check 3. You leave the US. 4. You may not visit or apply for citizenship here. EVER. Any attempt carries automatic death penalty. I have zero guilt for anything that happened outside of my life. You wanna play the victim game, I'm sure my family was slaves to the Roman Empire far longer than yours was so FOAD. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2017-07-08 15:23 |
| #5 Demonization for the purpose of pillaging and plundering. |
| Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-07-08 15:08 |
| #4 Behavior that is rewarded is reinforced. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-07-08 13:34 |
| #3 Strange no ? Back to eating bugs and drinking shitwater...I don't think so. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-07-08 12:39 |
| #2 I dare say most Americans held captive, kidnapped, suffering impressment, cast into slavery in foreign lands have historically longed to return to their native soil and freedom. Those here in the States claiming slave origins and heritages from the Niger Delta, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, West Central Africa (Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola) and elsewhere, seem to.possess little or no longing to return to native lands. Strange no ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-08 12:33 |
| #1 My forebears arrived on American shores after the Civil War was over. Regardless of race peddlers' arguments to the contrary, I feel no guilt for anything that happened before... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-07-08 12:19 |