“The truth is harsh.” So spoke the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, back in the 19th century. On no topic is the truth harsher than on that of race.
The
Eric Holders of the world incessantly bemoan the absence of an “honest
discussion of race” in America. But such a discussion, beginning, as it must,
with a discussion of slavery, is actually the last thing that they could afford
to have, for such a discussion would include facts that would undermine much of
the ideologically-invaluable conventional wisdom concerning this topic.
For
instance, the very word “slave” stems from “Slav,” i.e. a reference to the
experience of millions of (white) Slavish people who endured centuries
of slavery at the hands of African Muslims. This, of course, is a most
inconvenient truth, for it is a most Politically Incorrect truth. But it is
the truth.
Yet
the Slavish aren’t the only whites who spent centuries in captivity: Europeans
of various backgrounds were enslaved by African Muslims as well. All of this is
heavily documented in such neglected pieces of scholarship as Robert Davis’s Christian
Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast,
and Italy, 1500-1800 and Paul Baepler’s White Slaves, African Masters:
An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives.......To Read More
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