By Mychal Massie February 10, 2023 @ Daily Rant Economy / Education / Public Schools
The next time someone tries to guilt you about white
privilege and the lies surrounding slavery; here are facts that I
shared in a syndicated column from 2017 titled: “Let’s Demand
‘Reparations’ From Blacks For Riots and Violent Protests.” It’s too bad
these facts are not taught to children in Florida taking the ‘Advanced
Placement African-American Studies Program.’ It is too bad Nikole
Hannah-Jones didn’t use these facts to tell the truth, instead of the
crock of fantasy and outright lies she spread like manure in a wheat
field called The 1619 Project.
BEGIN MY ARTICLE HERE:
Certainly not all, but it’s safe to say the majority of
blacks openly claim or quietly believe the lie that America was built by
slaves. Many people, and especially many black people, are not
interested in factual truths; they’re only interested in lies and
distortions that augment and support their ignorance.
The truth about slavery in America is that it existed.
It was immoral but it was not illegal. At no time did America supplant
any Eastern country as having the most slaves or a country that supplied
slaves to other countries. America participated in slavery only briefly
and only in limited locales. America didn’t invent slavery any more
than America created crazed jihadists.
When American Republic was founded in 1776, slavery not
only literally existed everywhere on earth, but it was an accepted
aspect of human history for centuries before Moses was born and
eventually led Israel out of Egyptian bondage.
Following are facts about slavery that the purveyors of
white guilt are ignorant of: Aristotle further opined that “it is clear
that there are certain people who are free and certain who are slaves by
nature, and it is both to their advantage, and just, for them to be
slaves.” The Romans seized so many captives from Eastern Europe that the
terms “Slav” and “slave” bore the same origins.
All the great cultures
of the ancient world, from Egypt to Babylonia, Athens to Rome, Persia to
India to China, depended upon the brutal enslavement of the masses –
often representing heavy majorities of the population. Contrary to the
glamorization of aboriginal New World cultures, the Mayas, Aztecs and
Incas counted among the most brutal slave-masters of them all — not only
turning the members of other tribes into harshly abused beasts of
burden but also using these conquered enemies to feed a limitless lust
for human sacrifice.
The Tupinamba, a powerful tribe on the coast of
Brazil south of the Amazon, took huge numbers of captives, then
humiliated them for months or years, before engaging in mass slaughter
of their victims in ritualized cannibalistic feasts. In Africa, slavery
also represented a timeless norm long before any intrusion by Europeans.
Moreover, the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch or British slave traders
rarely penetrated far beyond the coasts: the actual capture and
kidnapping of the millions of victims always occurred at the hands of
neighboring tribes.
As the great African-American historian Nathan
Huggins pointed out, “virtually all of the enslavement of Africans was
carried out by other Africans” but the concept of an African “race” was
the invention of Western colonists, and most African traders “saw
themselves as selling people other than their own.” (Six Inconvenient
Truths About The U.S. and Slavery; Michael Medved; Townhall.com; 9/26/2007)
The myth that America became wealthy because of slave
labor is just that – a myth. America became wealthy despite slave labor.
The most prosperous states in the country were those that first freed
their slaves. As Medved states: “Pennsylvania passed an emancipation law
in 1780; Connecticut and Rhode Island followed four years later (all
before the Constitution). New York approved emancipation in 1799. These
states (with dynamic banking centers in Philadelphia and Manhattan)
quickly emerged as robust centers of commerce and manufacturing, greatly
enriching themselves while the slave-based economies in the South
languished by comparison…All analyses of Northern victory in the great
sectional struggle highlights the vast advantages in terms of wealth and
productivity in New England, the Mid-Atlantic States and the Midwest,
compared to the relatively backward and impoverished states of the
Confederacy.”
Devin Foley, co founder and president of the
Intellectual Takeout wrote: “Turning back to ‘Warfare In The Western
World,’ we find statistics that show just how dramatic the differences
in populations and economic power were between the free North and the
slave South. … “But in a longer struggle the North’s advantages were
substantial. With a population of 20 million, the Northern states
obviously possessed a much larger military manpower base, but their
industrial capacity was far greater as well. In 1860 the North had over
110,000 manufacturing establishments, the South just 18,000.
The North
produced 94 percent of the country’s iron, 97 percent of is coal and –
not incidentally – 97 percent of its firearms. It contained 22,000 miles
of railroad to the South’s 8,500. The North outperformed the South
agriculturally as well. Northerners held 75 percent of the country’s
farm acreage, produced 60 percent of its livestock, 67 percent of its
corn, and 81 percent of its wheat. All in all, they held 75 percent of
the nation’s total wealth.” (No, Slavery Didn’t Build America: It’s A
Popular Narrative, But History Doesn’t Support It; 3/2/2016)
Foley also notes:
“That final statistic combined with
the North’s victory in the Civil War should be sufficient to dispel the
idea that America was built on slavery. Keep in mind, too, that not all
of the wealth in the South was generated by slaves. Free men in the
South also worked their own fields and industries.”
Medved further points out that:
“Yale historian David
Brion Davis in his definitive 2006 history ‘Inhuman Bondage: The Rise
and Fall Of Slavery In The New World’ notes that colonial North
America…surprisingly received only 5 to 6 percent of the African slaves
shipped across the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the Arab slave trade (primarily
from East Africa) lasted longer and enslaved more human beings than the
European slavers working the other side of the continent… when taking
the prodigious and unspeakably cruel Islamic enslavements into the
equation, at least 97 percent of all African men, women and children who
were kidnapped, sold, and taken from their homes, were sent somewhere
other than the British colonies of North America. In this context there
is no historical basis to claim that the United States bears primary, or
even prominent guilt for the depredations of centuries of African
slavery.”
Armed with these facts it would be nice to enlighten
“The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America” to factual
reality. Said Reparationists are in the midst of attempting to shake
down and extort money from University of Chicago; because supposedly:
“Like so many other venerable American institutions, the University of
Chicago is built on slavery…Hundreds of enslaved people lived and died
on [the Douglas] plantation to make the University of Chicago and its $7
billion endowment, possible. [Ergo,] reparations are long overdue.”
This is based upon a published paper by four University of Chicago
graduate students from the history department. The paper detailed the
University of Chicago’s founding with profits from enslavements.
The very idea of this extortion attempt should be
subjected to harshest rebuke. It’s time for blacks that bathe in the
immiseration of lies and blackmail, to cease and desist. In the absence
of that I say we should counter their arguments by holding them
financially accountable for the cities and personal property they have
destroyed by rioting, violent protest, and the looting that accompanies
same.
Instead of allowing institutions and businesses to be
blackmailed under the guise of being held accountable, I say we teach
blacks what accountability is, by holding them financially responsible
for the murder and mayhem they commit.
About the Author
Mychal Massie
Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here
