This is why the left wants to erase complicated history and rewrite it in their own version. Native Americans owning slaves? Even after the civil war? Nah. They were all allies and living in harmony until white man ruined everything. Now tear down that statue, comrade.
Didn't you know white Americans invented the practice of slavery? They went into the African jungles with nets and threw them over any unsuspecting Africans they found. The practice of slavery certainly didn't exist for thousands of years across Africa and the Middle East long before white people - let alone America - came along, and slaves certainly weren't purchased in existing slave markets operated largely by other Africans who routinely enslaved each other. That's all right-wing disinformation. /s
I told some idiot who claimed our Founders were racist “You know America inherited slavery from England and Spain - because it was a practice forced on us when we were colonies. Our founders didn’t start slavery. In fact, they set us on the path to end slavery. As a direct result of their actions, slavery existed in Independent America for just 75 years. (1787 - 1862)
Compare that to English/Spanish rule of 261 years of slavery. (1526 to 1787.)
Because that is literally how it is taught in public schools. You can look at your states curriculum online. I’ve taught both world history and US history at the high school level.
World history: not a single mention of slavery. Even the “slaves built the pyramids” thing is debunked.
US history: the entire first half of the school year is centered on the issue of slavery (with the occasional “white man bad to peaceful native Americans and women” thrown in). The entire second half of the school year is basically, “the civil war may have ended slavery, but not really. Oh, and Republicans = Great Depression and Nixon aka corruption. Democrats = Wilson and FDR aka the saviors of all mankind.”
Yep. My first lesson on slavery was the “Triangular Trade.” There was never any mention of the slaves of ancient times, the slaves of the Middle East, or anyone else.
Yup. The old “slave trade triangle” has been used for decades as a mnemonic device to get kids to memorize the “fact” that slave trading occurred exclusively between Europe, the Americas, and Africa. They try to get you to teach it like it was the only thing happening in the world at that time. Like white people were so bad that they stopped everything they were doing to go down to Africa and snatch up as many black people as they could so that they could force them to start building the “new world”.
I see from the description that Cynthia Ann Parker, after being kidnapped, "grew to love her captors" and it was tragic that they tried to bring her back to live among the bad, evil whites.
That kind of narrative really gets my goat. There's a book about the captured girl with the blue face tattoo that uses the same kind of narrative - "oh, it's fine, she grew to love her captors, she liked living among them, how terrible to take her back to her own people." This from a book written recently! They're talking about a traumatized child, who watched her own family be slaughtered, beaten for trying to escape, raped, and finally gives up and begins to identify with her captors. She has trouble integrating after years of captivity and they just pretend it must be because Indians were better than whites. They would never say that about a child who was kidnapped and kept captive by a white person, they would have compassion for them, talk about Stockholm Syndrome, the need for therapy to process the trauma. It's not okay to kidnap children just because you have brown skin and live in a tepee.
I’m in my late 20s and thought I had a rather conservative education. The things my history books/teachers left out about the Indians, Civil War, Watergate, etc really makes me wonder...
This is why the left wants to erase complicated history and rewrite it in their own version. Native Americans owning slaves? Even after the civil war? Nah. They were all allies and living in harmony until white man ruined everything. Now tear down that statue, comrade.
Yes - before whites all non-whites lived in harmony
ever notice how africa and this middle east are living perfect harmony without white people... oh wait.
Its a shame because the middle east couldve been great if it wasnt for Islam.
and obama
Didn't you know white Americans invented the practice of slavery? They went into the African jungles with nets and threw them over any unsuspecting Africans they found. The practice of slavery certainly didn't exist for thousands of years across Africa and the Middle East long before white people - let alone America - came along, and slaves certainly weren't purchased in existing slave markets operated largely by other Africans who routinely enslaved each other. That's all right-wing disinformation. /s
quit making shit up, our betters have told us white people invented slavery in america and that is all there is to it. (/s)
Yeaaahhh...bigot!
Abeed, The Arab word for black person translates to slave.
I told some idiot who claimed our Founders were racist “You know America inherited slavery from England and Spain - because it was a practice forced on us when we were colonies. Our founders didn’t start slavery. In fact, they set us on the path to end slavery. As a direct result of their actions, slavery existed in Independent America for just 75 years. (1787 - 1862)
Compare that to English/Spanish rule of 261 years of slavery. (1526 to 1787.)
That's frighteningly close to what many of them believe.
A lot of dumbasses think america invented slavery.
Because that is literally how it is taught in public schools. You can look at your states curriculum online. I’ve taught both world history and US history at the high school level.
World history: not a single mention of slavery. Even the “slaves built the pyramids” thing is debunked.
US history: the entire first half of the school year is centered on the issue of slavery (with the occasional “white man bad to peaceful native Americans and women” thrown in). The entire second half of the school year is basically, “the civil war may have ended slavery, but not really. Oh, and Republicans = Great Depression and Nixon aka corruption. Democrats = Wilson and FDR aka the saviors of all mankind.”
Yep. My first lesson on slavery was the “Triangular Trade.” There was never any mention of the slaves of ancient times, the slaves of the Middle East, or anyone else.
Slavery was all American.
Yup. The old “slave trade triangle” has been used for decades as a mnemonic device to get kids to memorize the “fact” that slave trading occurred exclusively between Europe, the Americas, and Africa. They try to get you to teach it like it was the only thing happening in the world at that time. Like white people were so bad that they stopped everything they were doing to go down to Africa and snatch up as many black people as they could so that they could force them to start building the “new world”.
Yup... they were totally workers... workers that were forced to work under punishment of death and paid in food.
You forgot the 6 page paper about the Muslim American who convinced white people to start the civil war.
I see from the description that Cynthia Ann Parker, after being kidnapped, "grew to love her captors" and it was tragic that they tried to bring her back to live among the bad, evil whites.
That kind of narrative really gets my goat. There's a book about the captured girl with the blue face tattoo that uses the same kind of narrative - "oh, it's fine, she grew to love her captors, she liked living among them, how terrible to take her back to her own people." This from a book written recently! They're talking about a traumatized child, who watched her own family be slaughtered, beaten for trying to escape, raped, and finally gives up and begins to identify with her captors. She has trouble integrating after years of captivity and they just pretend it must be because Indians were better than whites. They would never say that about a child who was kidnapped and kept captive by a white person, they would have compassion for them, talk about Stockholm Syndrome, the need for therapy to process the trauma. It's not okay to kidnap children just because you have brown skin and live in a tepee.
I’m in my late 20s and thought I had a rather conservative education. The things my history books/teachers left out about the Indians, Civil War, Watergate, etc really makes me wonder...