textbook: we were workers...not slaves

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/mcgraw-hill-to-rewrite-textbook-after-moms-170440446.html


McGraw-Hill to Rewrite Textbook After Mom’s Complaint

 

Trying to soften the hard truth huh?

 

These Civil War apologists have a loooooonngg game when it comes to changing history.

The first step is changing terminology so the next generation is skeptical to the fact that Black folks were brought to this country as slaves.

Just tell kids the truth. They'll figure the rest out.

 

All part of the Lost Cause myth. What's really shameful is when black people adopt the language of white supremacy.

The Civil War wasn't about slavery but states rights.
Slaves were generally well-treated.

All talking points that whites, southerners in particular, will spew to avoid confronting the historical realities of black subjugation. Their ancestors were no better than Nazi-era Germans.

 

A great way to avoid paying reperations

 

I saw that shit. Nothing like a little revisionist history to hide the country's history. I'm scared to see what they have to say about the Civil War War of Northern Aggression.

 

If anything, I think the textbook was stating the fact about black people who lived in the northern states. They were not slaves but they did work in factories, construction and even sailing vessels. The whaling vessels had black crew members. Herman Melville based his book Moby Dick on the events aboard the whaling vessel known as the Essex. The Essex was attacked by a whale at night and it sunk.

 

'Workers' generally implies some kind of wage or salary. Slaves weren't paid.
It was a poor word choice by the book's publishers. And since Texas recently has been engaged in a deliberate effort to re-write their history books, I suspect it was done on purpose.

We were African slaves who worked on plantations and were owned, bought and sold by slave masters.

Calling us workers instead of African slaves implies our labor was voluntary and we CHOSE to be kept in bondage.

 

There were slaves from the Carribean. And there was a company in the North that did have a pipeline from Europe to North America to the southern states. For a time, it was profitable and these white men became rich. The slave training was everywhere along the Atlantic coast. Even in Brazil. But, people up north finally wised up.

 

Gotta wonder exactly how much money that would be.

They also should pay interest based on the average historical coupon rates on the company bonds or the historical rate on T-bills with a reasonable markup.

"Fuck you pay me" ~Ray Liotta

 

Newsweek did a story a couple of months ago and and a researcher at UConn calculated somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.9-$14.2 trillion dollars.

http://www.newsweek.com/slavery-reparations-could-cost-14-trillion-according-new-calculation-364141

 

Wow. We be getting rims and weed like no tomorrow.

Lol

 

Reparation to who? Africans? African Tribal Kings were major players in the slave trade and were actually angry when slavery was abolished. There were African middle men who went to these kings to purchase these slaves who ere already slaves in the King's palace since they had been captured in war and they were then sent to the white man for stuff like rum,whisky, gunpowder etc. The reason why there are slave castles littered along the coast of West Africa is because the white man dared not enter the inner parts of these West African countries because at the time it was all forest so they hung around the coast and waited for the middle men to bring the human booty and then they ship them off to the New World. There were mixed race children from the union of while colonial masters and their native concubines who assisted their fathers in the slave trade and made a killing of it.
Reparation? Hell no

 

Reperations to the slave descedants. So since u mentioned it everyone involved in getting tge slaves should pay .

 

People need to let the myth of Black folk being paid formal reparations go.
There's no fair way to quantify or decide who should be responsible for paying it.

And in the bizarre off chance a Congress of the future and a liberal POTUS signed off on paying Black people trillions in lost revenue, you know it would be paid out over like 100 years.:smt102

No thanks.

We got screwed,(an obscene understatement), but that's one check that ain't ever coming.

 

There are ways to quantify it.i think its been done.

But like u are saying getting them to pay it is a whole different story

 

I'm not voting for yo ass.

 

Of course it can be quantified, and rather easily at that

 

Talk about a new word for happy slaves:workers. How those racist folk explain the Civil War? Low wage workers? Oh yes how many purchased workers in the 19th Century? Somebody had to find the writers and publishers of those textbooks.

 

Does no one else see TWO tragic failures here? True, the worker thing is reprehensible. But what about this kid's pitiful grammar? The educational system has failed him twice!