Posted on 07/02/2015 4:03:37 PM PDT by Starman417
Certain things tend to set off triggers in you. For me it was Don Lemon- when he joined the flag-damning freaking idiot liberal lemmings in their bloodlust considering the removal of the Jefferson memorial:
CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday hinted that there will come a day when the United States will have to "rethink" tributes such as the Jefferson Memorial. After a contentious segment with Ben Jones, in which the former Congressman defended the Confederate flag, Legal View host Ashley Banfield brought up the author of the Declaration of Independence.And so will I.She reminded, "There is a monument of him in the capital city of the United States. No one ever asked for that to come down." At first, Lemon asserted that the comparison was not "equal" and that Jefferson "was a part of the entire United States." He then added, "There may come a day when we may want to rethink Jefferson, I don't if we should do that. But when we get to that point, I'll be happy to partake in that particular discussion."
I'd already warned about this and I got to watch it take place. With each passing day liberals become more and more like ISIS- seeking to purge history of anything they deem politically incorrect according to THEIR version of politically correct history. Let's go back and look at how slavery came to be. Here are some hard facts.
Thomas Jefferson had nothing but contempt for slavery:
Thomas Jefferson was a consistent opponent of slavery his whole life. Calling it a “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot,” he believed that slavery presented the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation. Jefferson also thought that slavery was contrary to the laws of nature, which decreed that everyone had a right to personal liberty. These views were radical in a world where unfree labor was the norm.But don't blame Jefferson for slavery. Don't blame the Founding Fathers for slavery. They didn't invent slavery, although MSNBC and CNN would have you believe they did.At the time of the American Revolution, Jefferson was actively involved in legislation that he hoped would result in slavery’s abolition. In 1778, he drafted a Virginia law that prohibited the importation of enslaved Africans. In 1784, he proposed an ordinance that would ban slavery in the Northwest territories. But Jefferson always maintained that the decision to emancipate slaves would have to be part of a democratic process; abolition would be stymied until slaveowners consented to free their human property together in a large-scale act of emancipation. To Jefferson, it was anti-democratic and contrary to the principles of the American Revolution for the federal government to enact abolition or for only a few planters to free their slaves.
Blame the Sumerians.
Slavery wasn't invented in Africa. It's probably a Mesopotamian concept, practiced in Sumeria for millennia before it was seen in Africa. Slavery has long been a staple of Islam and Muslim countries. Islam is also indelibly intertwined with African slavery.
Black Africans were transported to the Islamic empire across the Sahara to Morocco and Tunisia from West Africa, from Chad to Libya, along the Nile from East Africa, and up the coast of East Africa to the Persian Gulf. This trade had been well entrenched for over 600 years before Europeans arrived, and had driven the rapid expansion of Islam across North Africa.In the 1430's Portugese explorers came sailing down the West coast of Africa looking to trade not for slaves, but for gold (Hence, the Gold Coast). Slavery was well entrenched in Africa by then. The Portuguese discovered they could obtain their desired gold by transporting slaves from one part of Africa to another- from one African slave owner to another. And:By the time of the Ottoman Empire, the majority of slaves were obtained by raiding in Africa. Russian expansion had put an end to the source of "exceptionally beautiful" female and "brave" male slaves from the Caucasians -- the women were highly prised in the harem, the men in the military. The great trade networks across north Africa were as much to do with the safe transportation of slaves as other goods. An analysis of prices at various slave markets shows that eunuchs fetched higher prices than other males, encouraging the castration of slaves before export.
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This really oversimplifies — not to say whitewashes — Jefferson. While he had major criticisms of slavery in his youth, he learned how to live with it as he got older.
I love a good historical map
I guess that all things related to Jefferson must go.
Tear up the Declaration of Indepndence. Erase that it ever happened. Tear down Monticello. Get him off the nickel. Get rid of the swivel office chair he invented. Ban red hair.
The possibilities are endless.
I imagine that slavery predates the Sumerians. Perhaps they get the rap because they started to write things down.
Romans were enslaving Europeans, The Greeks were using slaves, The Egyptians before them had slavery. Why blacks think this is just a black thing is beyond me.
In the early ‘90’s when I began to spend a lot of time in Brazil, I learned then that Brazil imported 5 times as many slaves from Africa than the US - a majority of which were so badly treated that a majority died.
Huge difference from the US.
A very conservative black friend tells all he is very thankful for his ancestors being brought here as slaves, for now his whole family is prosperous - and if they had grown up in Africa would be most likely desperately poor today.
Try to sell this truth to most blacks and see what the reaction is.....
According to libs, the USA version was worse than any other form of slavery in history.
Good post!
Don’t forget that the English King sold 2/3s of Ireland into slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas.
I’m reading from the 1988 edition of “The Historical Atlas of the United States” published by the National Geographic Society. Page 40, under the Chapter titled.....”African Immigration in Chains” we find this information.
The total number of Africans brought to Colonial America (United States to be) was 399,000 and the population peaked in 1840 at about 2,000,000.
But.....slaves were imported to other areas...... as well.
The total amount of Africans imported to other New World territories was as follows.
Spanish America (Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America) was 1,552,100.
To British Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, Honduras) was 1,665,000.
To French Caribbean (Surinam, Guyana) 1,600,000.
To Danish Caribbean (Leeward Islands) 28,000.
To Dutch Caribbean (Aruba and Leeward Islands) 500,000.
To Brazil (Portuguese America) 3,646,800.
About 6% of the total slaves brought from Africa to the Western Hemisphere ended up in what would become the United States, and of course....slavery, as an institution was still carried on in the Eastern Hemisphere by Africans themselves. Yet....when one is reminded of the evils of this practice and scourge on human history.....it seems that the United States is always considered to be the chief villain....... and is constantly reminded that reparations should be paid.
These facts also dispel the notion that slavery was somehow responsible for the economic success of this country. If that would be the case..... why isn’t Brazil such an economic dynamo.....or Aruba?
Hey.......my ancestors were slaves also....... held in Africa by Africans...... and would still be there if it had not been for Moses. I would like my reparations from Africa.....with interest!
And.....unfortunately....slavery still exists in Muslim Africa.
Be nice to see the GOP grow some balls and start mentioning that it wad the Dem party who was the party of slavery, segregation, and the KKK.
Go to black churches etc and tell them as well getting on the media . I am stunned to find how many blacks have no idea it was the Democrats.
“Did You Know the First Legal Slave Owner in America Was a Black Man?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3303713/posts
Here’s something you won’t read about in the US history books. The first legal slave owner in America was black and he owned white slaves.
Anthony Johnson (BC 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia.
Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.
Sometime after 1635, Antonio and Mary gained their freedom from indenture. Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson.
In 1651 Anthony Johnson owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants. The black indentured servant John Casor (Casar, Cazarao and Corsala) demanded that Johnson release him after his seven years of indenture.
In March of 1654, according to Delmarva Settlers, Anthony’s servant, a man named John Casar requested that Johnson release him from his indenture because it had long expired past the usual seven years. Johnson replied that he knew of no indenture and that Casar was to be his servant for life. Anthony Johnson’s neighbors, George and Robert Parker, stated that they knew of another indenture for the said Casar to a planter on the other side of the bay.
(If Lincoln had desired peace)
(When in the Course of Human Events) by Charles Adams
A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend. (The Real Lincoln)
Is there anyone else from over 200 years ago we wish to put on trial applying current standards and law?
I bet Jefferson built Monticello without permits, without an environmental impact study, without a neighborhood comment period, and without union labor. The whole thing probably isn’t code. The bastard!!
Nope.
Go back to DU.
I don’t forget my family took enlistment in the Union Army so northern rich did not have to serve in the CW. Than with the money they sent for wife’s and children from Wales to come to America. One of the three brothers still is at Gettysburg where he fell with a New York infantry unit. Lots of forms of slavery in history.
The word ‘’salve’’ derives from the word ‘’slavic’’ since more Europeans were enslaved in the Dark and Middle Ages.
"If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen", is a favorite dictum in many professions!
I bet he couldn't build it today in less than two years and at enormous costs....what a hoot...he probably couldn't even have most of the animals and gardens at Monticello...neighborhood restrictions etc. Glad he built it at all, a beautiful history of that part of our history that was gracious and intelligent.
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