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Another little known historical fact. "Only" 300.000 black people have been brought to US as slaves. Less than 5% of American families owned slaves. Also to p
by JanezStupar 10y ago
Another little known historical fact.
"Only" 300.000 black people have been brought to US as slaves. Less than 5% of American families owned slaves.
Also to put things into perspective - between 1MM and 1.3MM white Europeans have been enslaved by Arabs.
What has been done to Native Americans is horrible. Slavery is horrible.
But I have no idea what any of that has to do with the fact that United States is really a one-of the kind country in the world.
I think that Americans should take a long hard look at all the problems on their plate, but they should really stop falling for snake oil peddlers who are selling Identity Politics and trying to benefit from pitting communities against each other.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> "Only" 300.000 black people have been brought to US as slaves. Less than 5% of American families owned slaves. That's a really odd point to make. From Wikipedia: "In South Carolina in 1720, about 65% of the population consisted of enslaved people... The number of enslaved people in the US grew rapidly, reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census."
- JanezStupar 10y agoPeople are mamals. Mamals breed. There were 1bn people in 1800, there are 7bn today. Facts don't care about your feelings.
- vacri 10y agoSo you're saying that slavery only counts if they're imported (your 300k)? Being born a slave is not a problem (ceejayoz's 4M)? And seriously, does it matter if it was 5% or 30% that owned slaves, if 65% of the population were slaves themselves?
- JanezStupar 10y agoI am saying none of that. Slavery was horrible. And American people fought a bloody war so it could be abolished. All I am doing is I am setting some perspective. As some people on the left engage in fallacy that every single white person owes them something because some of their ancestors may have been slaves. Slave population in 1860 was 12%, 65% was for a single state, that was an outlier.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> People are mamals. Mamals breed. Yes, and America took advantage of that to increase the slave population in a cheaper manner than importing. They ripped children from their parents. That you're portraying this as a positive fact is horrifying.
- JanezStupar 10y agoI am doing none of that. What is really horrifying is your ignorance and lack of intellectual honesty.
- dang 10y agoThis breaks the HN guidelines. Personal attacks are not allowed here, no matter how wrong someone else is. Instead, please (re)-read the site guidelines and post civilly and substantively, or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- JanezStupar 10y agoMy apologies to both HN readership and ceejayoz specifically.
- dang 10y ago> you're portraying this as a positive fact That's an exceedingly uncharitable interpretation. Please don't do that here.