Re:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... TS-it.html
"calls Independence Day a 'celebration of white supremacy' and REJECTS it because black people
have been 'dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized and terrorized' in the US for centuries"
Actually, that being celebrated is the independence of the first states from foreign domination.
Slavery is a different matter, having been outlawed in 1865 after the Civil War and not directly related
to U.S. Independence. Historical perspective should be that U.S. independence was the beginning
of the states' cooperation to end slavery in America.
Re:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
"Slavery was known in almost every ancient civilization and society."
"Slavery was widespread in Africa, with both internal and external slave trade. In the Senegambia region,
between 1300 and 1900, close to one-third of the population was enslaved. In early Islamic states of the western Sahel,
including Ghana, Mali, Segou, and Songhai, about a third of the population were enslaved.
"It is estimated that by the 1890s the largest slave population of the world, about 2 million people,
was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate. The use of slave labor was extensive, especially in agriculture.
"there were 2 million slaves in Ethiopia in the early 1930s out of an estimated population of 8 to 16 million."
Re:
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
"Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa,
forced into slavery in the American colonies"
Re:
https://theconversation.com/american-sl ... myth-79620
"Africans first arrived in America in the late 16th century not as slaves
but as explorers together with Spanish and Portuguese explorers."
"Roughly 25 percent of all Southerners owned slaves."
"Only a little more than 300,000 captives, or 4-6 percent, came to the United States.
The majority of enslaved Africans went to Brazil, followed by the Caribbean."
( 300,000 x .06 = 18,000 slaves )
Ending racism for good is an important goal - for the entire U.S. -
but pushing this protest on U.S. independence (and its symbols of statehood)
ignores the true history of slavery ... worldwide (including Africa)
Rod
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