Any time I have pointed this out the goalposts move.
"Ok Native Americans owned slaves, but their nations aren't the subject here because they don't have power. White people and the United States are what we need to focus on."
For me, this is where the dialogue ends because at this point they have unmasked themselves. They don't truly care about slavery or any other social issue for that matter - they care about the movement. They care about being instruments of change, and in that, they care about attacking and defeating whiteness.
At any given time in 2016, an estimated 40.3 million people are in modern slavery, including 24.9 million in forced labour and 15.4 million in forced marriage.
Think of how crazy it sounds that white people should eternally be sorry for ever owning slaves, even if their family never owned slaves, but any other race who did own slaves gets a pass by the left.
Take reparations for example:
The left wants me to pay more taxes because they want to make sure black people get a paycheck for something that happened hundreds of years ago.
I'm half white, half Mexican. My dad's family came to America many years after the civil war. My mom's family was the result of Spanish mixing with Mayan. None of my family had ever owned slaves.
But because I have an Anglo-Saxon last name, they will make sure to tax me to pay for something my ancestors never had a part in.
They would tell you that even if your dad's family arrived after the Civil War, they've married themselves to plenty of pre-Civil War families along the way, so you've got plenty of slaveowner blood in you - Pay Up Racist!!!
But seriously, even if all your forebears came from the antebellum South, the historical reality is that even 90% of whites there did not own slaves. The irony is that there are some black Americans today with literally as much or more DNA in them that comes from actual real white plantation/slave owners, as there is in some white Americans. Maybe they'll be required to pay reparations to themselves.
Any time I have pointed this out the goalposts move.
"Ok Native Americans owned slaves, but their nations aren't the subject here because they don't have power. White people and the United States are what we need to focus on."
For me, this is where the dialogue ends because at this point they have unmasked themselves. They don't truly care about slavery or any other social issue for that matter - they care about the movement. They care about being instruments of change, and in that, they care about attacking and defeating whiteness.
If you need a link to give them, try the International Labor Organisation
Then they can't accuse you of right-wing bias :)
https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang--en/index.htm
Dude black people owned slaves.
Think of how crazy it sounds that white people should eternally be sorry for ever owning slaves, even if their family never owned slaves, but any other race who did own slaves gets a pass by the left.
Take reparations for example:
The left wants me to pay more taxes because they want to make sure black people get a paycheck for something that happened hundreds of years ago.
I'm half white, half Mexican. My dad's family came to America many years after the civil war. My mom's family was the result of Spanish mixing with Mayan. None of my family had ever owned slaves.
But because I have an Anglo-Saxon last name, they will make sure to tax me to pay for something my ancestors never had a part in.
They would tell you that even if your dad's family arrived after the Civil War, they've married themselves to plenty of pre-Civil War families along the way, so you've got plenty of slaveowner blood in you - Pay Up Racist!!!
But seriously, even if all your forebears came from the antebellum South, the historical reality is that even 90% of whites there did not own slaves. The irony is that there are some black Americans today with literally as much or more DNA in them that comes from actual real white plantation/slave owners, as there is in some white Americans. Maybe they'll be required to pay reparations to themselves.