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Who taught black people that slaves built this country?

Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:43 am
Posted by ApexTiger
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:43 am
It seems widely believed among todays black community...thus white people privileged from it...

Why is it believed?

Builds animosity...

Then we had Obama telling America "you didn't build that" (because government provides so much)

It's all so confusing
This post was edited on 6/7/20 at 7:52 am
Posted by CoachChappy
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:44 am to
It’s taught in public schools.
Posted by Tunasntigers92
The Boot
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:44 am to
It's literally part of public school curriculum
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:46 am to
I wanted to tell that to the thousands of Irish immigrants that died from yellow fever digging the New Basin Canal.
Posted by Malik Agar
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:46 am to
(((our marxist schools)))
This post was edited on 6/7/20 at 7:47 am
Posted by thelawnwranglers
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:47 am to
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.
Posted by ApexTiger
cary nc
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:48 am to
Interesting...

Wasn't taught when I went to school in 70 and 80s.

Some people benefited from slavery...

But that doesn't translate into what we have today.

Those dots do not connect
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:49 am to
quote:

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


Because slaves were too valuable to risk using them.
Posted by Mohican
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:49 am to
quote:

It’s taught in public schools.



Not only that. It’s taught that capitalism is evil.

I had no idea the type of shite my 5th grader was being force fed until this quarantine.
Posted by Tunasntigers92
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:50 am to
The people who benefitted lost everything thing in the Civil war, this country was built off intellectual minds and headstrong Patriots
This post was edited on 6/7/20 at 7:50 am
Posted by rebeloke
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:51 am to
BHO /thread
Posted by Haydo
DTX
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:52 am to
quote:

evil.

I had no idea the type of shite my 5th grader was being force fed until this quarantine.


Please elaborate if you’d like. I’d be very interested to know what they’re teaching kids
Posted by ApexTiger
cary nc
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:53 am to
Does anyone have a copy of this curriculum or quotes from some history books.

Posted by viceman
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Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:54 am to
Not the railroad. That was mostly built by Chinese wage slaves.
Posted by IslandBuckeye
Boca Chica, Panama
Member since Apr 2018
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:54 am to
It is absurd.

Slavery is a stain but it is a short chapter in the history of our country.

The building of our country is much more complex and has many variables. I may be called a racist for this. So be it. I no longer care.
Posted by Bulldogblitz
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Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:55 am to
quote:

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


Every white person was a plantation owner, obviously.
Posted by funnystuff
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:57 am to
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!
This post was edited on 6/7/20 at 8:00 am
Posted by ApexTiger
cary nc
Member since Oct 2003
53774 posts
Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:57 am to
quote:

Every white person was a plantation owner, obviously.


Wasn't it closer to 10% in those times and Small percentage of blacks owned slaves as well
This post was edited on 6/7/20 at 7:59 am
Posted by funnystuff
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 7:58 am to
Let’s see some pictures of the text
Posted by Amadeo
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 6/7/20 at 8:00 am to
quote:

Who taught black people that slaves built this country?

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.

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