Sticker campaign targets
slavery roots in New York City
Reuters,
by
Dan Fastenberg
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/7/2021 8:14:24 PM
A New York-based campaign is drawing attention to prominent New Yorkers whose names are emblazoned on streets, schools, and storefronts and who it says had ties to slavery. The campaign - called 'Slavers of New York' - says there are at least 500 sites that feature the names of figures who owned slaves. Many of the slaveowners date from the 17th century when New York was New Amsterdam, including colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant and the Cortelyou family. The group comprises artists, educators, activists and researchers, said Ada Reso, campaign co-founder. It places stickers through Brooklyn to draw attention to the mostly unknown
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 7/7/2021 8:35:39 PM (No. 838847)
Just change the name of Washington, DC to George Floyd, DC and maybe the woke freaks will finally be happy. .... Nah!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 7/7/2021 8:48:13 PM (No. 838858)
OP, Never..........it's easier to believe a lie than to accept that you've been lied to.
12 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
vesparado1 7/7/2021 8:49:28 PM (No. 838859)
Shouldn't blacks have something (a ring, perhaps, or a pendant) that indicates whether or not they have "ties to slavery" (i.e., some forebear(s) were in fact slaves). That would vastly simplify the task of identifying who deserves reparations...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 7/7/2021 8:51:55 PM (No. 838864)
50 years from now, they will say that owning a dog was barbaric. And everyone who owned a dog today will be wiped from history.
Ovomit (who didn't just own them, but ate them) and biden will be on that list.
Yes, cancel culture is going to cancel everybody eventually!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Encore 7/7/2021 10:24:48 PM (No. 838890)
I’m waiting for PETA to want to burn old cowboy movies because they rode horses and roped cattle. Don’t even start about those cavemen herding woolly mammoths.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/7/2021 10:35:03 PM (No. 838892)
But...But.... What about New York itself?
It is named after the Duke of York, who held the Exclusive English license to sell slaves in the Colonies!
The Biggest SLAVE TRADER of them ALL!
WHEN are they going to 'CANCEL' THAT Name?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 7/7/2021 11:56:54 PM (No. 838931)
No sane or rational people would hack at its foundations to see it crash down into smithereens. We all know the history... of our Republic which of course was not created until long after colonists and settlers arrived, from many countries. The Brits brought in the slaves whom they bartered for or bought from African slave traders.
Perhaps an enterprising person will put up stickers labeling the Dems as the Party of slavery, civil war to keep it, Jim Crow and the KKK and how it was tough to get enough Dems to finally vote for civil rights acts.
The media won't inform the public, we have to find other ways.
This self-hatred exercise is unhealthy and dangerous. Frankly, it seems cruel, very cruel, to focus on part of this nation's past with the intention of stirring up pain and wrath . Then, meanwhile, people have struggled to get here from all over the world, virtually every country.
These racists are the worst of them all.
It's time to label the haters as "persona non grata" and invite them to leave.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/8/2021 12:17:21 AM (No. 838937)
80% of black students can't read at grade level. Change the signs all you want. They won't have any idea what the signs say.
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Did you know that of the 10.7 million African slaves taken to the new world, only 388,000 went to North America?
That importation to the USA was outlawed in 1808? Brazil and Portugal (and African Bantu) kept up the trade until 1886?
That there were more Irish slaves forcibly imported (now called indentured servants) than African to the USA? And, yes, they were slaves despite modern efforts to recast them.
That the indentured servants were set free only upon the passage of the 13th Amendment? (If they were free, why mention them in the 13th?)
That Biden’s Delaware was among the last states to free the slaves?
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Hold it. How many blacks did Stuyvesant or Cortelyon employ ? Provide an education ?
Keep biting the hand that feeds you and soon their will be no hands.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/8/2021 12:31:43 AM (No. 838943)
Some of my ancestors owned slaves. I am duly ashamed that they had a hand in bringing them to the US. We would be a far better and wealthier country if we hadn’t imported thousands of Africans here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/8/2021 2:46:11 AM (No. 838967)
Book soon to be published, "The Cotton Fields of New York."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/8/2021 8:29:39 AM (No. 839091)
How about this group go next door to Connecticut and shut down Yale University? The ultra-leftwing shiitehole was founded by Eli Yale, a slave trader whose ill-gotten cash was used in part to finance the university. Throw all of the administration, faculty and students out and turn it into section 8 housing - it’s only fair.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 7/8/2021 8:51:36 AM (No. 839113)
Who is paying for these fringe people to conduct this campaign against America? Soros? Big tech billionaires? Our corrupt "intelligence" community? China and Russia?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
privateer 7/8/2021 9:54:43 AM (No. 839168)
I demand quotas, set-asides, affirmative action and reparations for everyone in the USA of Irish descent.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/8/2021 9:58:11 AM (No. 839172)
When you live and breathe with the thought of slavery you become a slave and rot on the inside. Blacks and the cancel culture just keep moving forward with no end to their madness.
Will our countries history just die there's no satisfying these people.
Off topic, yesterday I watched a history video of a Civil War battle. In one of the stills was a dead Confederate soldier lying barefoot with his musket across him. My first thought was that man was not fighting about slavery probably dirt poor and never owned a slave in 1863 there were other reasons he fought a gave his life but it wasn't slavery.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 7/8/2021 10:40:13 AM (No. 839238)
Yes there were some people who owned slaves 150 to 200+ years ago. Get over it. It's not happening now.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 7/8/2021 11:24:32 AM (No. 839281)
My wife's a woman of color from Kentucky. Her family owned slaves (other people of color.) AND my wife's so conservative she makes the late Jesse Helms of NC look like a flamin' liberal. AND she worked for Trump on and off for 13 years starting in the late 1980s.
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When will they realize the Democrat party is the party of slavery?