History Has Never Fully Reconciled My People

Haunted as we are by a record of slavelessness.

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My family never had slaves in its history either.
We was robbed!!!
I think black people in America owes me something, because we would have been far better of economically today had we had slaves like everyone else around the world has.
I would like to start with Oprah and 50 cent – I mean just the Friday night bling would do for starters AND I want RESPECT!

I am sure that it was the very perceptive man,Mohammed Ali, who said ” I’m so glad that my great-grandfather was thrown on that boat”.

I’m not trivializing the horrors of slavery,but am pointing out the obvious that is hidden by political correctness. Where would you rather live today,doesn’t matter if you are black or white,Africa or America?

Kate, that is the FUNNIEST thing I’ve read in quite awhile …I nearly spewed my Friday night beer on the keyboard! Please give us some kind of “SPEW ALERT” if you’re going to write stuff that funny again.

Much like the alleged cruelty done to slaves of African origin—there is a dreadful silence about the indentured europeans who were defacto slaves in the colonial period.
No doubt there was some savage treatment but the inconvenient truth is that slaves were too valuable a property to be abused on a whim and priced out of reach of all but the most wealthy. Accounts of the dangerous process of lowering heavy cotton bales down the levees—-Irish were considered valueless and were put in the hazardous positions because the slaves were too valuable to risk in an accident.
Africans in the Confederate ranks indicate a non-adversarial relationship with their erstwhile masters……
It is entirely possible that this subject is largely the remains of a 19th century hoax similar to the current CO2 AGW hoax—-a political agenda.
At this distance in time an accurate assessment is difficult.

There were slaves in Canada. The Iroquois had some when they moved to the Grand River. They weren’t black as far as I know, but they were slaves.
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone.
As to my relatives, not so much call for slaves in the Highlands.

Fenris asks for reparations as well:
http://mitchieville.com/3289/the-wreckers/

The bloody English stole all your slaves, right?

the Haidas were slavers,They preyed on the salish people mostly, Part of the ceremony accorded the raising of a pole was the insertion of a stunned slave under the butt of the pole.

Paraphrasing Dennis Miller: “All of these cries of racism just bore me now. To them I have just one response: ‘Yawwwwnnnnn’!”

I don’t know if any of my ancestors were slaves but one of them was hanged for stealing sheep. I’m certain none of my family will ever be the same. How do I access proper redress?

Posted by: sasquatch at July 23, 2010 11:10 PM
Please don’t mistake/rename a hoax for a scam.
The underlying goals of the perpetrators are different.
A hoaxer aims to trick people just for fun; a scammer aims to trick people and then get money out of the victims.
Magicians have done this for eons. All one has to do is fool most of the people most of the time.
QED in today’s “focused” main stream media.

Over a million Europeans were taken into slavery by raids from North Africa. More than 90% of African slaves taken to the Americas ended up in Spanish and Portuguese colonies.
But somehow this evil stain doesn’t spread to the people who were most responsible.

Kate, you are obviously a blameophobe.
You need therapy.
You’re welcome.

I’m sure that any kind of angst would do…even manufactured guilt. So have another go at it, Kate.
No need to be left out of this vicarious flagelation thing just because our ancestors happened to be a bunch of lay-abouts….

Sowell nails it, as usual. One of several columns he has written about slavery/reparations:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell071700.asp

Kate,
If you’re a Scot, there’s a good chance you may be descended from the home children. That could be your ticket to victimhood!
Although now that I think about it, I’m descended from a home child and I agree with the statement above “I’m so glad that my great-grandfather was thrown on that boat”
I need to work on the fake outrage….

Kate, have you forgotten that you “own” Kinsella?

If you have any Scottish miners among your ancestors before the 19th century then there is a good chance they were slaves. They were freed some time after black slaves in the United Kingdom.
http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/429.html

Oh for pity sake you guys, you’re just going to get Volik and Warwick going again.

nick – stop it! We know Warren reads this blog; you just made his leg tingle, hard.
kakola – that sounds like fun. All the trolls here suck lately.

The funniest thing by far is the carefully suppressed fact that the Cherokee Indians (you know, Indians, as in one of the special victim groups) owned Black slaves, too. Oops!

One of my English ancestors was accosted, robbed and murdered on the way home from the pub one night. Do I get reparations? I should think at least we’d be owed some pale ale or stout.

Worked in Ghana for about a year. Toured the slave forts. Was informed buy the Tour guide of how it worked. Us Whities had the forts and one African tribe would capture men from another tribe and sell them to us. Nobody is innocent in the Slave trade not even the blacks. Man reality can really suck can’t it.

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