Blacks embark on their fourth
great migration
Aspen Times,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
9/22/2019 10:48:03 AM
Their first migration was great not for its goodness but for its enormity. It was of course the capture, enslavement and diaspora of black Africans. They were stacked like cargo aboard slave ships bound for America and elsewhere and then auctioned and owned like cattle.
Slavery was common throughout the world and had been for thousands of years, but American slavery was notable for its sheer scale. By the mid-1800s, between 30% and nearly 60% of the population of southern states were slaves.
In abolishing slavery, colonials should have led the world, not lagged it. They were destined to found a nation, said Abraham Lincoln years later...
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/22/2019 11:03:33 AM (No. 186380)
Those who do not read the whole thing will entirely miss the writer’s point. An excellent essay...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/22/2019 11:15:17 AM (No. 186389)
You want to see large scale slavery? Ever heard of Rome?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 9/22/2019 11:27:02 AM (No. 186400)
How does Mr. Beaton see But to their credit, Dems later led the civil rights movement. Black voters saw that, and by the late 1900s about 90% of blacks were voting Democrat.? The Dems became more clever in disguising their bigogtry, they didn't lead the civil rights movement! Prior to 1964 the Dems thought BLACKS ARE TOO STUPID TO VOTE. After 1964 the Dems thought BLACKS ARE TOO STUPID TO GET VOTER ID. The Dems switched to the soft bigotry of low expectations, so to speak. They destroyed the black nuclear family with welfare programs from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. What IS heartening to see is people like Candace Owens leading Blexit. That should scare the bejesus out of the Democrats, and it is likely the reason they suddenly love illegal immigrants They are the replacement victim-class the Dems need to justify their existence.
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MOBeef4u 9/22/2019 12:14:27 PM (No. 186444)
Check out this map representing the slave trade by number of slaves imported and you will see that the number of salves brought to what became the US pales in comparison to other parts of the world.
http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Slave.jpg
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 9/22/2019 12:15:48 PM (No. 186447)
I hope he is right. There are great problems in the black community, and the Dems are exacerbating these problems greatly. I think that some Repub approaches could help with some of it, although much of it has to do with things like getting married instead of a woman having 4 kids by four different men who never lived in the home and never contributed a cent to it's upkeep or to the children.
Best wishes, I hope that they can cut their chains and become really free.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/22/2019 12:51:42 PM (No. 186488)
Optimism and praise is all well and good but while this may apply to many blacks we can not include all. The weekly murders over nothing but artificial turf lines, the abandoned families, the widespread drug use, the overt racism and hatred. We are not there yet. When I can walk safely and un-harrassed down one block of a black neighborhood I will declare the battle almost won.
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HotRod 9/22/2019 1:11:40 PM (No. 186505)
Mr. Beaton is light on facts, but heavy on history revision. The ''rural south'' was the democrat party. Less than 1/2 of 1% of southerners owned plantations. Most were independent farmers and ranchers who did not own slaves, and had little contact with them. Also, the Civil War was not instigated over slavery, as many northerners owned slaves too, but over fiscal issues and oppression of Southern commerce. Slavery was a later add-on, to deal with flagging interest in the war by northern citizens.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
504pc 9/22/2019 2:09:17 PM (No. 186537)
i have sold to the construction industry for almost 40 years. In the past couple of years I have seen a huge increase in major construction projects associated with black churches. Think residential drug treatment facilities, homeless shelters and the like. These projects are to big to be financed by the state of Louisiana much less a congregation. I suspect this is republican outreach to faith based communities of color as only the federal government has this kind of money.
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RuckusTom 9/22/2019 2:47:18 PM (No. 186554)
We'll see in 2020. If blacks vote around 50% republican and 50% democrat rather than 10% or less republican and 90%+ democrat like they've done for the past - what? - 40 or 50 years, we'll know something's up.
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Everybody is an expert on slavery and the south. Now it's a writer in Aspen.
Not agreeing with everything he said; especially that part about wanting to work.
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