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Good video.The truth is hurtful to some.

1st. America would be better off today IF every slave ship had SUNK ! No apologies.

2nd. The Black ?citizens? OUGHT to kiss the ground they stand and live on. WHERE on earth do Blacks live a better life
and have NUMEROUS opportunities to succeed? huh ?


jwall, and I said that.

I have Black friends and have worked with some Great Working Black guys. I don't Blackwash all of them.

When is the Coliseum going to be torn down?

Great video, BTW. Well worth a couple minutes.

The first recorded slave owner in colonial America was black.

Sure they did, the fur traders journal's made note of the slaves owned by Native tribes of the west coast, one of the main articles of trade.
The white man freed those who would otherwise.... in future generations be enslaved.

“Crazy James” Vann, Cherokee Chief and one of the weathiest men in America at the time, was rich enough that he could afford to burn a slave alive at the stake for stealing, as a warning to his other slaves.

But there was Indians and then again there was Indians, the most benign form of slavery I know was practiced by the Seminoles of Florida, a sort of mild feudalism where runaway slaves settled into their own villages and gave part of their harvest to the Seminoles proper. Lots miscegenation of course such that Osceola hisself was a mixture of Indian, White and Black.

During the Second Seminole War the enduring partnership of the Seminole Wildcat and the Black Seminole John Horse became legendary.

After the Seminoles and Black Seminoles fought the US to a standstill, the 500 Black Seminoles, negroes who had been engaged in a shooting war with the US Government, were actually allowed to bear arms during their removal to Indian Territory with the Seminoles on the pretext that they were their slaves.

In Oklahoma the Black Seminoles settled mostly in their own communities adjacent to those of the Seminoles. Ten years later, in the 1850’s, the US Government outlawed the practice of slaves bearing arms, thus legally disarming the Black Seminoles. In response, Creek Indian slavecatchers started abducting Black Seminoles and selling them into real slavery. John Horse’s own wife was kidnapped and sold off.

Whereupon the Black Seminoles accepted a deal with the Mexican Government; a land grant south of Eagle Pass/Piedras Negras in return for the interdiction of Kiowa, Apache and Comanche raids. Wildcat’s band accompanied them south. During the latter 1850’s the Seminoles and Black Seminoles likely intercepted far more War Parties and raiders than the Second Cavalry and Texas Rangers combined.

Wildcat died of smallpox in 1857, most of his band then returning to Oklahoma, the Black Seminoles under John Horse stayed on. Fifteen years later John Horse accepted a deal where they would scout for the US Cavalry out of Ft Clark, so they relocated there. Three Black Seminole Scouts were awarded Medals of Honor for feats of valor when going against Comanches.

I am not aware of an Indian tribe that DIDN'T practice slavery.

You did not want to be a slave of the Apache or any other tribe!

Quite true! It is the Indians who we really screwed over. Killed most of 'em and took their land away from what few were left.
As for these descendants of slaves, they are the luckiest black people in the world. Because their great grandfather was a slave, they got the hell out of the sh**hole of Africa and now live in a good and prosperous country.

As for slavery, an abomination. I am from the South and I can't wrap my mind around the idea that a person could own another person. It is sickening and horrible. But these descendants of African slaves are damn lucky and they need to shut their damn mouth.

I think the Egyptians owe the Jews back pay for 400 years of slavery.

Exodus says that the Hebrews impoverished the Egyptians when they left. They left quite wealthy in gold, jewelry, and livestock.

The original sin is millennials.

DING ! DING ! DING !

Holy Mackerel You Got It Right ! Look how FAR down American has SUNK since 2001 !!!

Don't forget who's responsible for them. And/or their parents.

Shush! Not while we are scolding them!

How old are your kids?

‘76
‘78

Not America's only sin.

Nobody is without sin.

Original is NOT only.

Original is not accurate here.