woodguru

This is the stupidity we are dealing with that is because of the divisiveness in this country...history has one side and one side only, the "other side" is the spin, and those that don't like the facts and the way things were would have us believe that it's the truth and facts that are not the way they were.

And now a college is expected to represent the other side of what the facts are...that is sheer raw stupidity. Republican lawmakers call this intellectual diversity, when what it is is an exercise in misinformation. If the "other side" is represented, I don't suppose it can be called the spin or the way the other side sees it?

https://www.rawstory.com/what-is-senate-bill-83/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=9&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s

woodguru

My point here is that regardless of the fact that slave owners have a different perspective than slaves and those who wanted them set free...the fact remains that there is only one set of events and the way things happened.

kemmer

Josh Hawley said “America is where slavery came to die.”
Many decades AFTER European countries outlawed slavery.

pegw

I can't see another side to the slavery issue. Unless it's capitalism and people were getting rich on the back of the inslaved. I also heard this statistic. One third escaped. Looks like they didn't want to stay.
Acording to the Medis Bias meter, Raw Story is solidly left with a high degree of reliability. Biasly puts them as 63% reliable. and Ad Fontes puts them as liberal.
Trying to rewrite history because some decendents of a rebels will feel bad is not a good reason to change the facts.

keepuphope Loc: Idaho

And who fought to free them and did so? Allow me it was Lincoln who was a REPUBLICAN. Democrats fought tooth and nail to keep their slaves and so it was with Jim Crow act Republicans fought against it democrats for it. And 6 million Jewish people were tortured and slaughtered,men,women,children and there's also video evidence ect to prove it yet it's the democrats and liberals pushing anti-Semitism and holocaust deniers propaganda against Israel.

bggamers Loc: georgia

This is our great socialist education at its finest at one point Trump threatened universities to eliminate a lot of this but got embroiled in lawsuits and impeachment. They need to defund these higher learning sh#t holes of Americans hard earned money the government throws their way

woodguru

It wasn't a democrat or republican thing as much as a geographic area thing, some regions supported slavery past the point where is was being pushed out.

Radiance3

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RAW STORY ARE ALL GOSSIPS AND FAKE NEWS!

A prelude of the Slavery Story and Origin.
Slavery in the US was not the fault of the White Men. The slaves were sold by their own Black Muslim Slave Traders, to the Western world, and to the Muslim world. The West bought them. So as the Muslims.

Those sold to the Western world, had advanced and eventually given equal rights with all the people around. We are now equal. We learn, think, work for a living. Then follow the guideline that our Christian God gave us.
The Ten Commandments.

Those sold to the Muslim world just disappeared as soon as they got old. We don't know what happened. In the Muslim world, the slave women were not allowed to have children. Yet nobody complained about that.

The slaves brought to the West flourished and advanced their lives. They were given equal rights with everybody.

During the ancient times, slaves and free were commonly used words.
Nobody kill anybody for having free man or slaves. But now, violence is always committed against those who don't belong to the slave race. I often times see these happenings in NYC, DC, San Franc. or where many of them live. Why?

We are all God's creation. Genesis 1.
I pray, we all could unite and use our freedom to do the God given gifts of our mind, heart, and body for the good of all. For God's command, "Love one another, as I loved you".

kemmer

Uh-huh. Since when? 😮

martsiva

Which party fought for slavery to continue in this country? Golly gee - it`s the one you support!!

keepuphope Loc: Idaho

Bullshit.

martsiva

Not between Democrats who were the major slave holders and the Republicans who fought to free them and the Civil War was all about a geographic thing?? How ludicrous!!

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Like Delaware, for example.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

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Au contraire, Woody. You say "history has one side and one side only, the "other side" is the spin". Who is to say that the historians who write history don't spin their side of the story.

Take the issue of "slavery". If you read much of the "woke" i.e main stream news, the issue of "white guilt/privilige" goes hand in hand with "reparations initiatives" based on the misbegotten notion of state-sanctioned racial discrimination.

If you knew anything about the issue of "slavery", you would know that slavery was not a peculiar American institution.

As British historian Dan Jones notes in "Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages",

"Slavery was a fact of life throughout the ancient world. Slaves—people defined as property, forced to work, stripped of their rights, and socially ‘dead,’ could be found in every significant realm of the age. In China, the Qin, Han, and Xin dynasties enforced various forms of slavery; so too did ancient rulers of Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and India."

The indigenous populations of both North and South America, pre-European settlement, also practiced slavery.

In Milton Meltzer’s "Slavery: A World History", he writes "Perhaps because it conflicts with race-based political agendas, slavery of Africans by fellow Africans is one of those uncomfortable truths that often flies under the radar. Likewise, industrial-scale slavery of Africans by nearby Arabs as well as Arab slavery of Europeans are historical facts that are frequently ignored. Both subjects are explored in The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam by Simon Webb and Slavery and Slaving in African History by Sean Stilwell.

Republican lawmakers say the bill is being misrepresented and that its only intent is to promote intellectual diversity. MY COMMENT: Like the historical context of how slavery existed in most all cultures, including the African nations!

"I think in an academic environment, all sides — good, the bad and the ugly — need to be talked about and discussed and debated," Bill sponsor Sen. Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland) told News 5.

https://fee.org/articles/the-history-of-slavery-you-probably-werent-taught-in-school/

liberalhunter Loc: Your mom's house

So..... faggotry was outlawed for centuries, yet you managed to kill 40 million and infect 80 million and counting by being closet rump rangers..... worse now that behavior is in the open.

Slaves stay..... all fags to Africa.

Problem solved.