Sick of liberals trying to make you feel guilty about slavery? All you need to do is remind them of a few historical points:
- All races kept slaves all throughout history.
- Most of the American slaveships and American slave-markets were run by Jews. But no one blames modern Jews. Because if anyone today says anything was “run by Jews”, they’re immediately dismissed as a crazy anti-Semite, regardless of whether or not it’s true.
- When the Trans-Atlantic slaveships docked at African slave-markets to buy slaves, they bought slaves who were already slaves. It was Arab Muslims and Black Africans themselves who captured members of rival tribes and took them to the coastal slave-markets to sell to the Whites and Jews. White people didn’t go into Africa and kidnap free black people. They barely needed to get off their ships to buy slaves, it was like buying McDonalds at a drive-through. The slaves were already at the slave-market in chains, ready to go.
- In the 16th – 18th century, Africans enslaved 1.5 million White Europeans in the Barbary Slave Trade. African Muslims raided up the coastlines of Europe, particularly the British Isles but even as far as Iceland, kidnapping and enslaving White European Christians. The men were galley slaves, and the women were sex slaves. This was more brutal than working on a plantation or as a domestic servant.
- Native Americans and Jews owned Black slaves too, but no one seems to assign a collective guilt to modern Native Americans and Jews for their slavery. In fact, Jews were the biggest slave-owners in America per capita.
- Whites were the first people to stop slavery in modern times, whereas slavery still continues in Africa to this day. In Mauritania slavery was only made a punishable offense in 2007!
- Less than 2% of Whites in America ever owned slaves
- Only 5% of the black slaves transported across the Atlantic actually went to the modern U.S. Most in fact went to Latin America to serve Hispanic slave-owners. But we don’t look at modern Hispanics as evil slave-owners.
White people were responsible for slavery in the same way that someone who smoked Pall Mall cigarettes for a few years is responsible for the entire tobacco industry. Yes the Pall Mall smoker bought Pall Mall cigarettes from a shop at the end of the process, but they didn’t grow all the tobacco, harvest it, roll the cigarettes and distribute them to the shops.
http://australianislamistmonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3132:islams-genocidal-slavery-part-f&catid=170:slavery&Itemid=22
http://australianislamistmonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3235:-islams-european-slave-trade-by-muslim-turks-eg-ottoman-and-tartars-part-g-in-islams-genocidal-slavery&catid=170&Itemid=67
http://australianislamistmonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3236:-islams-european-slave-trade-timeline-for-muslim-turks-seljuk-ottoman-part-h-in-islams-genocidal-slavery&catid=170:slavery&Itemid=22
http://australianislamistmonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2842:islams-black-slave-trade-islams-genocidal-slavery-part-e&catid=170:slavery&Itemid=22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Staden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_wars
http://revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm
http://afgen.com/forgotten_slaves.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Slave_Trade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlegs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_conquest_of_North_Africa
http://www.theroot.com/views/did-black-people-own-slaves
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312425295/africangenesis
http://amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056
http://amazon.com/Christian-Slaves-Muslim-Masters-Mediterranean/dp/1403945519
http://amazon.com/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/0814742963
Oh goodie! It wasn’t until I read White Gold, White Cargo, To Hell or Barbados and Bratavia’s Graveyard that the depth of White slavery and the fact that Blacks were ‘favoured’ became clear. The traditional notions of slavery in America ended with the invention of the combine harvester! And there were Black landowners/slaveholders who opposed fair treatment or even human treatment for Black or White ‘property’. Very pleased to see this, will enjoy watching, thank you.
The first legal American slave owner was a black man who owned a black slave, (and later white slaves). When I discovered this, I was freed from the last vestiges of my sense of white guilt.
Well well well, i have to admit im ignorant about this little nugget of information. We are made to feel guilty about the white man and his black slaves, but now i know the truth, thankyou!!
1. “All races kept slaves all throughout history.”
So this justifies slavery? If everyone does it, it must be ok, right?
2. “no one blames modern Jews”
But does anyone blame modern whites? Has anyone ever directly approached you and accused you of the crimes of slavery? A white man isn’t to blame for the crimes of his ancestors any more or any less than a man of any other race.
3. “They bought slaves who were already slaves.”
So this justifies the continuity of their enslavement? Just because they didn’t personally enslave the slaves, they have no responsibility for the suffering they forced them to endure?
“t was like buying McDonalds at a drive-through. The slaves were already at the slave-market in chains, ready to go.”
Wow, comparing the slave trade to a drive-through McDonalds… really tasteful.
4. “In the 16th – 18th century, Africans enslaved 1.5 million White Europeans in the Barbary Slave Trade.”
Nobody ever said that the Barbary Slave Trade was ok. It is no better or worse than any other slave trade, and it certainly does not justify any other slave trade.
“This was more brutal than working on a plantation or as a domestic servant.”
Oh, and that’s for you to decide, is it? Were you a slave in either of these situations. I’m not denying that being a sex slave is awful, but please bear in mind that things were much worse than merely “working on a plantation.” Black slaves on plantations endured torture such as being whipped repeatedly, being tied to a post and left in the sun without food or water, being raped, being mutilated, being starved, being stung to death by bees or mosquitoes, having teeth broken of and ears cut off.
5. “no one seems to assign a collective guilt to modern Native Americans and Jews”
What, exactly, is this “collective guilt” you speak of? This is the year 2013, and I don’t know what country you live in, supposedly the United States, but I have never, ever in my lifetime heard of or witnessed someone accuse a white person or make them feel guilty for these crimes of their ancestors. If such an individual were to make such a remark, why not put it aside knowing that you are better than them and that their remark is poorly sourced. Why bother feeling guilt for something you know you are not guilty of? There is absolutely no need to justify slavery and use the classic 7-year-old “but you did it too!” line.
6. “Whites”
Whites. A term you use to describe every white person ever. As if, for some absurd reason, every white person ever feels the same way about everything. Why generalise like this? You hate that you are apparently generalised when it comes to black enslavement, and blamed for the work of your ancestors. But as soon as your ancestors do something “good”, you want to be generalised again?
“Whites were the first people to stop slavery in modern times”
How has this got anything to do with you, though? You take pride in the fact that “whites” were the first people to stop slavery in modern times. Because you are a white, you also take responsibility and praise for this stopping of slavery in modern times? But when it comes to the slavery itself… no responsibility?
Also, this is a far too ‘glass half-full’ approach to something that shouldn’t be looked at this way. Oh, the first people to stop slavery? How kind of all you “whites”! How generous!
“whereas slavery still continues in Africa to this day”
NO ONE EVER SAID THIS WAS A GOOD THING. NO ONE APPROVES OF THIS SLAVERY.
7. “Less than 2% of Whites in America ever owned slaves”
Therefore, that 2% are excused for their heinous crimes?
8. “Only 5% of the black slaves transported across the Atlantic actually went to the modern U.S.”
Is this even a valid fact? Anyway, the fact that the US ‘apparently’ was responsible for only 5% of the slave trade make that 5% excusable? (clue: no)
“Most in fact went to Latin America to serve Hispanic slave-owners. But we don’t look at modern Hispanics as evil slave-owners.”
I don’t know about you, but I have never looked at a modern white person as an evil slave-owner. Anyone who does has a warped view of the world.
1. No, it means stop pointing the finger at whites like whites are uniquely responsible for slavery. Whites didn’t invent slavery, but they did stop it.
2. Absolutely, click the tag “Blaming Slavery” for a few examples.
3. I don’t care about what’s “tasteful”, I care about what’s true, I’m not interested in emotive arguments that seem more concerned with making black people feel good and white people feel guilty than the actual history of slavery. What it means is that the whites were part of the process, but why is there never any blame put on their fellow blacks and the Arabs who enslaved them when they were free, and sold them to the whites? White people did not enslave free black people, they purchased black slaves who were already slaves. It doesn’t make it good, it makes it less bad.
4. Actually, people do justify the Barbary Slave Trade as okay, on the grounds that it was based on religion rather than based on race. That’s when people actually do talk about the Barbary Slave Trade. The problem is they don’t. “Slavery” is talked about as this exclusively white-on-black phenomenon, demonising white people.
Black slaves on plantations were generally not tortured. Any slave that was tortured, and I don’t deny that some were abused, was the exception rather than the rule. Think about it. The slaves were there to do work. Why would you torture them, rendering them incapable of doing work? Slaves were actually taken care of in terms of food and medicine, so they were in good shape to work. A slave was seen as basically like a mule, right? A farm animal. Now why would you deliberately injure your own farm animal?
In 1855, Frederic Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New York’s Central Park, was in Alabama on a pleasure trip and saw bales of cotton being thrown from a considerable height into a cargo ship’s hold. The men tossing the bales somewhat recklessly into the hold were Negroes, the men in the hold were Irish. Olmsted inquired about this to a shipworker. “Oh,” said the worker, “the niggers are worth too much to be risked here; if the Paddies are knocked overboard or get their backs broke, nobody loses anything.”
5. Again, see the tag “Blaming slavery”. I don’t know what country you’re living in, but you can’t be paying very close attention, because blacks blame whites for slavery all the time. Didn’t you hear about that black politician in Alabama racially abusing the white constituent? I don’t live in the United States, by the way. And it’s stupid to suggest I ignore my people being demonised. What exactly is your criticism here? It makes no sense. You’re basically criticising me for defending my race? You’re criticising me for correcting false history?
6. You’re suggesting I take some sort of individual pride, and I don’t. I don’t really follow you on this one. I’m saying, if they want to point out bad things whites did, as an ancestral group, whites, then I’ll correct them. You’re trying to force some atomised, individualist paradigm onto something that isn’t individualistic.
You say no one says slavery in Africa is good; that’s because they don’t talk about it.
7. No, that 2% aren’t excused for their “heinous crimes”, but the other 98% are.
8. Again, see the tag “Blaming Slavery”. And those are only the examples I’ve documented, there’s plenty more out there if I wanted to spend the rest of my night searching things on google just to prove it to you, but I’m not really inclined to. I’ve just made a delicious bowl of soup and I’m going to watch a documentary.
Thanks for dropping by!
Slavery not being a solely or particularly white practice is valid, but otherwise your points are rather questionable.
Point 3 in the original post is kind of odd since I could take it to mean implicitly that colonialism, which continued long past when white nations supposedly outlawed slavery, is worse than the earlier purchasing of slaves from Africa was.
Claiming that slaves were generally not tortured, on the other hand, is an incredible diminishing. Obviously they didn’t want to incapacitate their slaves, but whipping wasn’t going to render a slave incapable of working. Slaves who attempted to escape got shot or attacked by dogs. Slaves who rebelled would be tortured to death. Slaves in the US weren’t implicitly sex slaves but there was absolutely nothing stopping them from being raped, and people as notable as Thomas Jefferson did that. South Carolina felt the need to pass a law against cruelty to slaves in 1740 to ban various forms of mutilation, as well.
This is the absolute truth! This is not what were taught in history class and I’ve been doing my research about Irish Slaves and all about the slavery from many many years ago! It’s really disturbing when the whites are accused of owning slaves! Also, I hate it when people say African American, Chinese American, Korean American, and so forth! Fact is, if your born in America, You’re an AMERICAN! Thanks for this article, I hope some folks learn a little history here.
All Americans, black and white, should be taught the truth. Wow, what an eye opener. It seems we have all been victims at one time or another. Time for the true enemy, Islam, to be exposed for what it is. A sick and twisted religion that plagues all other races.
500 crappy YouTube links surely guarantee you the moral high ground, right? I am not sure where you go the idea that everyone was blaming white people as a whole for the entirety of slavery, but you are skirting the real issue really widely here. What white people in America ARE responsible for is institutional racism, which continues today, and has it’s roots in pre-Civil War slavery. Being a person of privilege, you have no idea what it’s like to deal with racism, institutional or otherwise, and being butthurt because some African American called you a cracker doesn’t count.
read Knoxville horror or Wichita massacre. Hitler himself couldn’t do worse
This article is full of ignorance and poor analysis. Just let me give an example:
“8.Only 5% of the black slaves transported across the Atlantic actually went to the modern U.S. Most in fact went to Latin America to serve Hispanic slave-owners. But we don’t look at modern Hispanics as evil slave-owners”
That is imposible. Latin America did not exist during those centuries. And the rulers of those territories were not “hispanics” but “whites” unless you think that only english speaking whites can be whites.
I’m quite sure Latin America did exist during those centuries. And haven’t you ever heard of white Hispanics like George Zimmerman?
What you’re doing is reenforcing the idea that Hispanics are white when they do something bad, like own slaves or commit a hate crime, but when they need extra help, quotas, and affirmative action, suddenly they’re Hispanic. Typical of the American justice system, where people can be recorded as Hispanic when they are the victim, but the same person would be recorded as white when they’re the offender, artificially inflating the white crime rate.
Regardless, this was one bit of the article.
Latin America is a concept coined during the 19th century by french philosphers. It took time until the term was acepted by current latin americans. And guess what: it was created in order to create a cultural connection between the latin nations (France, Italy, Spain..) and the Spanish speaking nations of Central and South America. Between 17th and 19th centuries those territories belonged to the Holy German Empire aka the Kingdom of Spain and other territories in Europe. The White people ruling the colonies in the Spanish America were not what we know now as “hispanics”. They considered themselves whites as opposed to mestizos and natives. They were either europeans or europeans descendents. Latin America did not exist neither “hispanics” or “latinos”. Check your maps. This is not just a little detail but a serious evidence of ignorance and you lack of historical analysis.
Semantics. I’ll change it to “what’s now called Latin America” if you want.
If you google ‘quaderni padani 22-23′ you will see that the mass-murder and enslavement of whites by Muslims began nearly fourteen centuries ago [long before the Crusades] and has never ceased.