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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redredred · M

@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,

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@redredred Even the dea that was one of the first... I mean, what country are you comparing yourself with? 🤷‍♂️

SOURCE: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-slavery-idUSL1561464920070322

This wasn't about a political party, but you had to make it about it. And why did you have to make it about? Oh... because you compare a periode where the democratic party (mainly a segment of that coalition called the "Southern Democrats") are compared with the coalition that excists today. But that comparisson doesn't work, because after the Civil Rights Act from 1968 a lot of these voters changed party. First they voted for an independepent called George Wallace. And then the republican party absorbed them into their framework. They even had a strategy where openly racist discourse, turned into abstract conversation about wellfare that hit certain groups harder then their own. All those people, if they are alive today, would vote republican. Even the KKK that used to vote Southern Democrat promoted Trump, untill they understood that it might hurt his chances. But you can't erase history.

redredred · M

@Kwek00 I’m not at all sure you’ve got a point to make here but if you can find a factual error I’ve made, let me know.

Yes, slavery world wide is a horrible abomination. It’s too bad it’s worst incarnation is currently underway in Africa, still being managed by muslim slave traders as it was in the 17th-19th century when the US, like most of the world, was a slave holding country.

If white people bear an original sin for slavery, then the democrat party, for its much more recent sin of Jim Crow, bears an additional sin. If, in your opinion the democrat party is currently blameless because of the passage of time and a total change in attitude then you have a logical issue to deal with.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@redredred The current democratic party is blameless. What you are doing is transfering the sin of the fathers to the son. You can't blame a generation for something that happened a generation ago. But for some strange reason... that, well, is very clear to me, republicans love to use these facts in todays context without understanding the evolutions in the electorate and the stances of their own party. I do blame the fact that the republicans absorbed, integrated and pampers to the biasses that still excist and didn't go away by legeslation that the democratic coalition in 1968 signed. Mainly because that coalition had a Northern part. The Southern part cut themselves off and eventually disolved into what the Republican party is today.

I listed up where you are wrong. If this is too dificult for you then I totally understand. But I can't make it any easier.

redredred · M

@Kwek00 “ You can't blame a generation for something that happened a generation ago.”
So, by your logic, today’s white people bear no responsibility for slavery

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@redredred No, why would they?