Who taught black people that slaves built this country?

It’s taught in public schools.

I wanted to tell that to the thousands of Irish immigrants that died from yellow fever digging the New Basin Canal.

In fairness there was some labor on Whitehouse?

Otherwise my guess is Slaves did very minimal building sans wealth for a very select few plantation owners.

Not the railroad. That was mostly built by Chinese wage slaves.

It is now a core part of political messaging that America is fundamentally and irredeemably racist. And that message is being pushed by both the political and economic elite.

Reason being, if the original sin of slavery means that America is truly broken right down to her core, then none of the failures of today can be blamed on those who currently hold power. As long as we’re focused on hating the other side of the isle, we’re not focused the systematic destruction of American jobs or the industrial-scale buying of political influence. Nah, who needs to worry about those minor side-issues while we’ve got 400 years of racism to rewrite!

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Who taught black people that slaves built this country?

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It drives me crazy that this notion will almost always go unchallenged.

The very real issue of uncompensated servitude aside:

Without out those ships built in Bristol by white men, that sail with the help of instruments like the compass invented by the Chinese, and the astrolabe invented by the Greeks, to textile mills in European cities established by whites, located in industrial cities created by white folk...that cotton is still sitting on some dank arse Mississippi River dock.

One more reason that if we're gonna defund anything, start with the Department of Education.

Defund the public schools who teach total bullshite and don't stick to the facts. Those who cannot think critically cannot teach students to think critically.

If police are in trouble for just following orders, the same should apply to teachers. Silence is violence right?

Public schools.

I never knew slaves were used in the coal mines of Appalachia. Did not know they built the skyscrapers in NY or the auto industry or the aeronautical and space industry.

My history book was apparently incomplete.

I don't know, but I had a black IT colleague tell me that 20 years ago, and I laughed in his face.

Yeah, slaves built some stuff. Maybe, you can say a lot of the early economy was built off their field labor, but the Irish, Chinese and every freaken else bled, sweated and prayed to get this country were we are.

Now, it seems like a large chunk of the black population and all Democrats want to tear us down and destroy the country.