Posted on 10/17/2013 6:03:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thanks, that looks like a good read.
The first slaves were brought to Jamestown not long after the settlement was established, but that would make it 400 years ago in the US. There might have been some earlier in South American or the Caribbean, but I’m not sure.
But large numbers weren’t in the US until years later because it was a couple more centuries before several of the slave states were even settled by white people.
“America probably would not have a culture if it weren’t for black people,” says one interviewee.”
It takes a pretty messed up mind to come up with a thought like that.
It is a good read (or view). Oddly, I first heard that more African slaves went to the Muslim world than to the West fifteen or more years ago from Henry Louis Gates when he was still at Duke. There was some PBS special about Africa and slavery, and practically the last words in the last segment were Gates and someone discussing the fact (first mention in that series) that more African slaves went to the Muslim world than to the West.
Gates final words were to the effect: "that needs to be investigated more thoroughly." Haven't heard if any more thorough investigation has taken place, at least with any involvement from Gates. Maybe there will be some more information in this new series...
They probably had some form of family name, or tribal name, and certainly some names for the places where their tribes lived.
There are still indigenous languages in Mexico that aren’t written. When I was doing ESL there were a few kids I was working with that didn’t speak Spanish. They had no background in written literature of any kind. No schooling and no background in Sentence composition etc.
Obviously, if there weren’t written records, or a family bible of some sort, the history is Oral. What I found fascinating in Obama’s pedigree, after two or so generations in Africa from his dad, the only information was the continuing last name of Obama. Nothing else.
The 500+ year old story of slavery goes to africans in africa who captured, sold and bought other blacks among themselves and muslims for a thousand years. They still do today.
Africa is and always has been a craphole, low end of the gene pool continent in which the various tribal factions warred among themselves. Millenia ago modern man walked out of africa and left the stupid behind.
They want to be africans, then deport them all back to the motherland and let them be real africans; for the hour or so before the real africans kill them for their money or sell them into slavery.
I can’t think of a decent country on that continent. Machete attacks, Muslim attacks on Christians, poverty, corruption. I looked at a map the other day to answer what I was pondering. Not one civil country I would want to live in or go visit.
I watched an episode or two of his tv thing on discovering your roots. What struck me about one episode when he was talking to some AA at a barbershop (i think) and they had done the dna test to see how much African vs how much White they had in them. The guys were celebrating the results with fist pumps when they were told how little “white” they had in them. I found that disturbing.
I won’t watch anything attached to this jerk.
This is the same guy who got a Boston cop into trouble when he was drunk & couldn’t open his own front door. When vigilant neighbors called cops, he got very nasty & aggressive with everyone who responded.
This ended up with the ‘Spite House Rose Garden BEER SUMMIT.
You are correct. Same A$$.
He did get a free beer.
Oh is he the one? I haven’t watched PPS in ages. I don’t even know what channel it is on
HLG, Jr. is on some commercial...I will NOT be buying that product.....no matter what.
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