@MiketheSnow said in Black Lives Matter:
On a mate's facebook page
I'm not racist, you know that, my gran was black.
Teaching people what they should know goes both ways.
We've had to forget that we were once the slaves of the Romans, then the bloody Vikings, and white people are still being sold as slaves today.
African countries are still selling black people today. ISIS and Al-Qaeda gain a lot of revenue from this activity. Don't hear of people wagging fingers at them.
Slavery was made legal through a law suit brought to a Virginia court by a black slave owner. At least 10 of the first 20 slave owners in America were black.
Yep. From my OU studies, I recall some of the most vociferous opposition to the abolition of slavery came from the African potentates who were raiding their enemies and kidnapping people to sell. They petitioned Parliament & the King to keep slavery going.
The other common (and current) myth is that "capitalism & the free market" was responsible for slavery. One of the most powerful arguments used by abolitionists against slavery was that it is the opposite of a free market, was inefficient, costly and stopped capitalism from operating properly. Much of the opposition to abolition actually came from the churches
