Posted on 06/01/2016 2:20:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
As construction of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture progresses toward its September opening, Museum Director Lonnie Bunch joined CBS “60 Minutes”’ Scott Pelley on a visit to Mozambique in search of a ship that carried hundreds of African slaves to the bottom of the Indian Ocean when it foundered 220 years ago.
“The story of slavery is everybody's story,” Bunch explained to Pelley. “It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long we've been in this country. We hope that we can be a factor to both educate America around this subject but maybe more importantly help Americans finally wrestle with this, talk about it, debate it…”
So how are 21st Century citizens of the United States obliged to “finally wrestle” with, in this case, the long-ago deaths of Africans who were enslaved by other Africans, forcefully driven for many miles through a Mozambique port and on to a Portuguese slave ship bound for Brazil, while the descendants of all those who actually participated in this event are allowed to be wistfully unconcerned and guilt-free?
You see, Mr. Bunch is wrong on one key point. Slavery is not everybody’s story -- it must remain exclusively a story for the United States and its people. Only we are required to bear the indelible stain of this country’s original sin -- and it appears those who entered or will enter here assume this mantle of guilt themselves a century-and-a-half after the institution of slavery was ended.
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My great-great-great grandfather took a Confederate bullet in the leg at Gettysburg. He carried that bullet, and the pain, limp and general misery it caused him for the rest of his life. He died in 1932. Screw reparations.
Hey we were just following the trend set by the first slave owner in the United States. A black fellow I believe.
What?! You mean Kunta Kinte and Simon Lagreed are made up characters? You sure its not your “white privilege” talking? /s
true words
Author should have included details about some of the largest slave owners being black.
depends on what 20 years you watch the 9ers.
up until around 2004 or so they were most definitely NOT largely black
I arrived as a young child to this country in 1967 aboard a 707.
Y’all on your own.
Even a topic like this and the angry reaction you can get when you point out that the slave trade to British North America, as one scholar mentions in the article, was basically very small compared to the rest of the world during that time really shows how anti-intellectual the left really are.
I will give my whole salary to any slave my family owned.
Oh wait they came from Ireland and Italy.
Tough shiitte boys.
Your grandfather’s dad? Wouldn’t that be your great grandfather?
That’s how it was except for fellows like my great grandfather. Him in blue and his fellow Kentuckians in grey could equally claim to be fighting for Kentucky. It was very literally brother against brother and father against son in that State.
Not true. Slavery was rendered illegal in England in 1772 by Lord Mansfield's decision in the Sullivan case.
The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law [statute], which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged.
“...those with a vested interest in fostering racial discord in this country.”
Isn’t that what we call “race-hustling poverty pimps?”
Bob Marley told people to move past mental slavery and that only you can free your own mind. Wise advice to those who blame long-ago slavery for their problems today.
Anyone asking for reparations for slavery should be required to renounce their American citizenship and return to their African homeland. The payment can be wired to them upon their arrival. Under those circumstances I’d bet a lot of otherwise vocal people would say “wait, what? Never mind.”
th than the decendants of people that were captured in West Africa and enslaved 400 years ago,now living in America have a much higher standard of living than decendants of those who escaped capture
After Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in Zaire, a reporter asked him, “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” to which he replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”
One of my great grandfathers had the good sense to fight in the Union Navy. He survived the war to homestead in Minnesota, then died during a log drive down the St.Croix/Mississippi at age 65.
The Civil War/War between the States was the greatest American tragedy, ever.
Slavery was a trap that was difficult to escape. It corrupted both slave and master. The abolitionists were correct about that. At the same time, the slave states were in a trap. During the war, they offered to free the slaves if the North would take them and take care of them.
Lincoln would have none of it.
We have been entering a trap made of welfare and federal control for 60 years. Maybe Trump can start us on a course out of it. I hope so, but have my doubts.
Especially when compared to the Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians who arrived here dead broke and mostly not speaking the language, yet they’ve adapted and learned to thrive in a relatively short amount of time.
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