Please watch this video. It’s produced by a former high school history teacher.

Good luck. Most white americans go a long way out of their way to avoid learning about the disgusting history, how else can they keep telling themselves that the USA is exceptional

I was stunned to learn all this. and only recently. I am Ashamed that I was so ill informed


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Sadly, this is all true, not "CRT indoctrination." I've read historians who called the Reconstruction as violent and racist a time and the years of open slavery.

Unfortunately (and with apologies to BohemianBoo, who's dead wrong on this), there's no agenda on anyone's part because, put simply, this applies to too many peoples and too many collective records to count. Human slavery, while race or class is often used as sorting factors, isn't loyal to any one brand. Feudal lords, military regimes, wealthy land-owners, influential politicians...they all elevate their own status by placing more space between them and the lower levels. Whites and blacks. whites and white, blacks and Latinos, Asians, adults and children, men and women, humans and the rest of the animal world.

But the information contained here is accurate and lends depth to the simple binary "there's no racism anymore 'cuz there are no slaves" argument. We're a nation that was barely inhabited when several countries made a land grab in the name of better futures. We've always been a giant dog-pile of peoples trying to find space in a big world. I just don't know why we have to keep fighting for the same rights in the same spaces at the same time. It's a big, big place.

I’ll watch this later, but if this topic interests you, I’d recommend Douglas Blackmon’s book Slavery by Another Name. He explains how de facto slavery in the form of convict leasing persisted until 1941.

Fine but a couple of things to keep in mind. The US didn’t invent slavery but was one of the early-adopters in the world to end it within our borders. A half-million mostly white people died in the Civil War that ended it.

There are currently more black slaves in Africa than the total who were ever kept in bondage in the US.

Racial tensions have been a political plaything for a long time in this country. Both sides of the political spectrum are guilty of fomenting these tensions. Most people, on an interpersonal level don’t feel these prejudices.

@Kwek00 I never said the US was first, that was the kingdom of Hungary in 900 AD. Yes the British abolished slavery within Britain in 1833 but carried on a lively slave trade for decades afterwards.

Every Jim Crow law proposed, debated, voted on, enacted and enforced was done do by democrats and falls into the category of the political plaything I mentioned. To whit,

That guy makes some good in depth videos

I'm definitely going to have to give this a watch. I do know that slavery is still happening today in our nation's prisons. That's the last place where it's legally allowed to go on.

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this was posted on this site recently to a shit storm
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I aint reading no CRT.

but not about that at all.

Ever heard of Pittsburg Landing? Malvern Hill? Spotsylvania Courthouse?

Very good. The prison system continues that slavery.

He’s hot

I should thank you for this link.
I watched it in entirety after work.
I learned things I never knew.

I saw he did a video on the Armenian Genocide. It's a topic that's very important to me. I'm going to be watching that before bed.