A couple of conversations broke out. The irrelevant ****er has to try and disrupt it somehow. Just ignore him.
Thats the trouble with the lefties on here, we get into a good conversion and they dont like it, so try to disrupt it
According to Nikole Hannah-Jones'smyth, U.S. history didn’t really begin until August 1619, when about 20 slaves were sold to the governor of the Virginia colony by a British privateer. This “beginning of American slavery” is central to our nation’s history, Hannah-Jones argues, because black Americans would go on to become “the perfecters of this democracy.” The problem is, like every claim Hannah-Jones makes, the claim that slavery began in America in 1619 is a fiction to begin with. Now, a new project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is unintentionally exposing that fraud. Many of those enslaved indigenous Americans were enslaved by other indigenous Americans long before Europeans came to the Americas. “Indigenous slavery long predated the arrival of Europeans in the Americas. As far back as we can peer into pre-Contact monuments, codices, and archaeological evidence as well as the earliest European accounts, we learn about Indigenous Americans enslaving one another,” University of California, Davis history professor Andres Resendez writes in his book The Other Slavery. “The Maya and Aztec took captives to use as sacrificial victims, the Iroquois waged 'mourning wars' on neighbors to avenge and replace their dead, Native groups along the North Pacific Coast finalized elite marriages by exchanging enslaved people, and so on. These practices of bondage were embedded in specific cultural contexts,” Resendez continues. Not only did Native Americans enslave each other long before Europeans arrived, but Native Americans were also active participants in the African slave trade. “The Five Civilized Tribes [Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole] were deeply committed to slavery, established their own racialized black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War,” National Museum of the American Indian Curator Paul Chaat Smith told Smithsonian magazine. Black Americans are not “the perfectors” of our democracy — nor are Native Americans, nor are whites. What makes the U.S. unique is not that slavery was once tolerated in our country — it was in fact tolerated everywhere on Earth for millennia — but that we fought a bloody Civil War to end it. Very few countries can say that. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/t...pc=U531&cvid=21fef2981f3a4cb18b1b373a9467130c
