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

It’s going to make you uncomfortable. It might make you mad. It might make you sad. But if you’re white and you choose not to watch this, I want you to really look deep inside and ask yourself why would you not want to be introduced to the part of American history you don’t learn about in school.

I was unaware of 90% of what is introduced in this video. I’ll give you a hint, you’re never going to use the phrase grandfathered in or grandfather clause again.

If you’re like me and you’ve been trying to wrap your brain around the racial tensions in the US, especially recently, you’ll want to watch this. If you’re concerned about your children learning critical race theory in school, you’ll want to watch this. If you think slavery ended after Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, you’ll want to watch this.

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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

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.

BohemianBabe · M

@LordShadowfire Let me know if they mention that non-white people also owned slaves, or if it's more anti-white propaganda.

Fukfacewillie · 56-60, M

@LordShadowfire And denying felons the right to vote is a holdover as well.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@Fukfacewillie I am so glad Oregon isn't one of those states that do that shit.

bijouxbroussard · F

@BohemianBabe What do you think the percentage was ? Non-white slave owners vs. white slave owners ? Do you agree with the people who don’t think any of it should be taught about because it’s unpleasant ? 🙁

Randi1125 · 31-35, F

@LordShadowfire You won’t regret it. It will blow your mind.

BohemianBabe · M

@bijouxbroussard It was relative to their numbers. In raw numbers, of course there were way more white slave-owners. Same way there were way more Protestant slave-owners, but there were also Catholics and Jews that owned slaves relative to their size.

So there are generally two camps here. The first doesn't want it taught because of the anti-white way in which history is usually taught. The second doesn't want it taught because they think it's Critical Race Theory, which they're scared of because the Republicans need a diversion from the fact that they have no popular policies.

Personally, I think slavery should be taught because it's an extremely important part of American history. I just wish it was taught without an agenda.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@BohemianBabe I was able to watch forty minutes of this video, and what I saw didn't exactly enrage me, but that's only because none of it is a surprise to me. If you still refuse to look at it, I can only assume you're intentionally trying to remain ignorant.

bijouxbroussard · F

@BohemianBabe I’m not how sure it can taught about truthfully without acknowledging that the system was anti-black. I don’t know how the law worked for Native American slave-owners, but even free blacks had no protections outside of where they lived. The Fugitive Slave Acts allowed slavecatchers to cross into non-slave states and abduct any black person under the guise of returning runaway slaves (property) to owners. And it wasn’t uncommon for people who’d been freed by their owners, as well as those who’d never been slaves to be taken back south and sold. Sometimes they were able to regain their freedom, but other times they weren’t. One of my father’s ancestors was probably classified among black slave owners because he bought the freedom of his own mother and sister. And free blacks who could, often did that.

BohemianBabe · M

@bijouxbroussard

I’m not how sure it can taught about truthfully without acknowledging that the system was anti-black.

Oh, I'm fine with that. My only issue is teaching it in a way that makes it look like slavery was a white thing.
I'm also fine with teaching about the racism against Native Americans. But leaving out the wars and genocides between the tribes, in order to make it look like only white people did genocide, is really bad.

bijouxbroussard · F

@BohemianBabe Unfortunately, in the United States the initial legislation regarding slavery, was authored and passed by whites. This is significant because the United States, supposedly found on principles of "freedom" is where slavery should never have existed. There were initially indentured servants of all colors, but only some of the black ones were eventually reclassified as slaves.

BohemianBabe · M

@bijouxbroussard Yeah, that's not the part I have the issue with. I'm not saying America's specific brand of slavery wasn't racist. I'm just saying people of all races participated in it.
I think it's also important to note that slavery was always very unpopular with the white working-class. It was mostly a rich person's thing. But this is another thing left out when they teach it in schools.

Fukfacewillie · 56-60, M

@Randi1125 Also underreported is Native American slavery in the west, especially California.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@BohemianBabe

I'm not saying America's specific brand of slavery wasn't racist. I'm just saying people of all races participated in it.

Watch the video. It talks about what happened after slavery was allegedly abolished.

BohemianBabe · M

@LordShadowfire I'll try to watch it tomorrow. I hope the cringe isn't too bad.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@BohemianBabe Just keep an open mind. Things have been worse for our melanin-enhanced friends than is taught in our public schools.

SatyrService · M

@LordShadowfire mee too!
ORYGUN! ya!

LeopoldBloom · M

@BohemianBabe Did any Black slave owners have white slaves?

BohemianBabe · M

@LeopoldBloom I've already acknowledged that slavery in America was racist in nature. Only black people could become slaves. My only issue is that it's taught in a way that leaves out certain things, specifically to make people think that slavery was only done by white people.

bijouxbroussard · F

@BohemianBabe But if it was legislated by whites in the U.S. and the majority of slaveowners and slavecatchers in this country were white, how can those truths be anti-white ? Nobody with any intelligence is maintaining that whites today are responsible for slavery, although today’s GOP has been trying to work its way back to some Jim Crow legislation.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@BohemianBabe Just. Watch. The. Video.