Wolfman888 wrote:
Um, a lot of this country was made great on the backs of slaves
brought to this country unwillingly to work for free while
the white Christian conservatives profited from them.
Read some history; there was a war fought over it.
Who sold those slaves?? Africa, filled with disease unable to care for themselves.. who bought them more importantly~~who brought them to the Americas ??
You are right there is plenty of history...Telling the story of 1619 as an “English” story also ignores the entirely transnational nature of the early modern Atlantic world and the way “competing European powers collectively facilitated racial slavery” even as they disagreed about and fought over almost everything else.”...From the early 1500s forward, the Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Dutch and others fought to control the resources of the emerging transatlantic world and worked together to facilitate the dislocation of the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas. As historian John Thornton has shown us, the African men and women who appeared almost as if by chance in Virginia in 1619 were there because of a chain of events involving Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and England. Virginia was part of the story, but it was a blip on the radar screen as to what was really going on and for how long it had been going on well before the English colonies were here...
Sooooo, In 1619, Virginia was still Tsenacommacah, Europeans were the non-native species, and the English were the illegal aliens. Uncertainty was still very much the order of the day.... When we make the mistake of fixing this place in time as inherently or inevitably English, we prepare the ground for the assumption that the United States already existed in embryonic fashion. When we allow that idea to go unchallenged, we silently condone the notion that this place is, and always has been, white, Christian, and European.
Where does that leave Africans and people of African descent??? Unfortunately, the same insidious logic of 1619 that reinforces the illusion of white permanence necessitates that blacks can only be, ipso facto, abnormal, impermanent, and only tolerable to the degree that they adapt themselves to someone else’s fictional universe. Remembering 1619 may be a way of accessing the memory and dignifying the early presence of black people in the place that would become the United States, but it also imprints in our minds, our national narratives, and our history books that blacks are not from these parts. When we recite the events of 1619, we establish the conditions for people of African descent to remain, forever, strangers in a strange land.
in other word, “We did not bring them here, we did not buy them or sell them here, or disrupt their settlement here etc. You are talking about history 400 years in time which none of us had anything to do it.
You Want some history try reading this...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/