Jared Taylor #racist #wingnut amren.com

Slavery Is Our ‘Original Sin’?!

More anti-white rubbish.

How many times have you heard that slavery was “America’s original sin”? I’m not quite sure what that means, but I think the idea is that slavery was a uniquely horrible thing that defines the United States and will stain whites forever. It’s one of the few things Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama agree on. There are books about it. Here’s a college course at UC Davis called “Slavery: America’s Original Sin: Part 1.

If slavery is somebody’s Original Sin, it’s sure not ours. What became the United States imported just about 3 percent of all the slaves who crossed the Atlantic.

Tlingit and Haida Indians went raiding for slaves as far South as California. During ceremonial feasts, the Tlingit would kill slaves, just to show how rich they were.

When we bought Alaska, Indians were furious when they had to give up their slaves. The Tlingit carved this image of Abraham Lincoln to shame the government into compensating them for slaves.

Only about 20 percent of Southern households had even one slave, but 75 percent of the free-black households in South Carolina owned slaves.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Arabs took more white slaves south across the Mediterranean than there were blacks shipped across the Atlantic.

And, of course, it was white people who abolished slavery, both in their own countries and, except for a few stubborn holdouts, the whole world. Africans, just like the Tlingit Indians, screamed about all the wealth we made them give up.

But slavery’s still our “original sin.” As Time magazine wrote just this month about slavery “Europeans and their colonial “descendants” in the United States engineered the most complete and enduring dehumanization of a people in history.

What a small minority of Americans did for 246 years — and in a relatively mild form — is worse than anything that was ever done anywhere by anyone.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the power of white privilege. I hope you are enjoying it.

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