Yes the slave trade was a tragic time in our nations history, but we are now in the year 2005, where technology is abundant, student loans for every one. The problem is that we are spending to much money on our past when we should be investing in our nations future. This is just aonlther nutty professor script that could only be written in California so Kledis get off your rump and get student loan and go to college, i promis with a good education comes a good job and and a good salery.
Submitted by Bill Ward from the Los Angeles Times: a review of the book, “White Gold,” about white slavery in North Africa.
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Milton’s reliance on the accounts of captives like Pellow adds a more genuine feel of what it was like to be a European slave in North Africa. There was hopelessness and despair, as the following suggests:
O purgatory in life,
hell placed on earth,
evil with no equal,
strait with no way out!
The words come from a character in “El trato de Argel,” a play by Miguel de Cervantes, a slave for five years in Algiers before his ransom was paid and he returned to Spain, where he later wrote “Don Quixote.””
Once again money is thrown at a cause with no result.
Could we please get an accounting of just how much money has been spent on these programs in Oakland. The 19th century slave trade has nothing to do with the blight in this city. It has to do with families not motivated to do anything other than cash the government check.
Don’t get me wrong. It is not a good situation there. But my father never made more than $20,000 as a fry cook. We never took govt assistance and I put myself through a private university for a good career. It does happen people.
Maybe I should sue the The Queen and her family for oppression when my family was serfs… hmmmm
You get what you ask for. If you want to be treated equally, get the chip off of the shoulder, get out there and work/go to school. The world does not owe you a living period, much less for something that is history. Get a life, get a grip, get a work ethic, GET REAL! That state is pathetic.
“The U.S. Civil War fought from 1861-1865 smashed the Confederate slave-holding society of the U.S. southern states”
Confederate slave holding states like West Virginia? Maryland? Kentucky? Missouri? Slaveholders like U.S. Grant? Or Mary Todd Lincoln? How ’bout the slaves working on the US Capitol during the war? No doubt Harvard & Brown Universities discolsed their slave heritage as did northern powerbrokers like Vanderbilt and Livingston. Try reading history rather than revising it. For starters, Dr. Tom Woods’ (Columbia) “Politically Incorrect Guide to History” and Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo’s (Loyola) “The Real Lincoln” before publishing abjectly stupid half-truths of history.
This is a bogus feel-good legislation that does little more than tilting at windmills. No wonder California is in such a financial mess.
Okay, the point here is really about pushing for reparations and not much else. An apology can be seen as an admission of guilt and getting corporate America to admit to guilt in this issue no matter how coerced and absurd it may seem is a means for building a case that renumeration is due. California is not just crazy left – its dangerous.
What % of their proceeds will Black Contractors have to pay for America’s Black slave dealers and Black slave owners? More reasearch would reveal the % of Black slaveowners in American history. Slavery was bad, but let’s get the history straight. You will find that “THE FIRST BLACK SLAVE IN VIRGINIA” WAS OWNED BY A BLACK MAN! This is documented in court records. In my city in Virginia over 200 slaves were owned by about 150 Black residents prior to the War. All folks need to a proper education about who they are! Lose that history what comes next?
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Yes the slave trade was a tragic time in our nations history, but we are now in the year 2005, where technology is abundant, student loans for every one. The problem is that we are spending to much money on our past when we should be investing in our nations future. This is just aonlther nutty professor script that could only be written in California so Kledis get off your rump and get student loan and go to college, i promis with a good education comes a good job and and a good salery.
I am white whose going to compensate me for my enslaved ancestors by black slave traders.
Book review of “White Gold:” white slavery in North Africa
From: wardwriters@bellsouth.net
Submitted by Bill Ward from the Los Angeles Times: a review of the book, “White Gold,” about white slavery in North Africa.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quote:
Milton’s reliance on the accounts of captives like Pellow adds a more genuine feel of what it was like to be a European slave in North Africa. There was hopelessness and despair, as the following suggests:
O purgatory in life,
hell placed on earth,
evil with no equal,
strait with no way out!
The words come from a character in “El trato de Argel,” a play by Miguel de Cervantes, a slave for five years in Algiers before his ransom was paid and he returned to Spain, where he later wrote “Don Quixote.””
Once again money is thrown at a cause with no result.
Could we please get an accounting of just how much money has been spent on these programs in Oakland. The 19th century slave trade has nothing to do with the blight in this city. It has to do with families not motivated to do anything other than cash the government check.
Don’t get me wrong. It is not a good situation there. But my father never made more than $20,000 as a fry cook. We never took govt assistance and I put myself through a private university for a good career. It does happen people.
Maybe I should sue the The Queen and her family for oppression when my family was serfs… hmmmm
You get what you ask for. If you want to be treated equally, get the chip off of the shoulder, get out there and work/go to school. The world does not owe you a living period, much less for something that is history. Get a life, get a grip, get a work ethic, GET REAL! That state is pathetic.
Will this count for all contractors or just those that are white?
“The U.S. Civil War fought from 1861-1865 smashed the Confederate slave-holding society of the U.S. southern states”
Confederate slave holding states like West Virginia? Maryland? Kentucky? Missouri? Slaveholders like U.S. Grant? Or Mary Todd Lincoln? How ’bout the slaves working on the US Capitol during the war? No doubt Harvard & Brown Universities discolsed their slave heritage as did northern powerbrokers like Vanderbilt and Livingston. Try reading history rather than revising it. For starters, Dr. Tom Woods’ (Columbia) “Politically Incorrect Guide to History” and Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo’s (Loyola) “The Real Lincoln” before publishing abjectly stupid half-truths of history.
This is a bogus feel-good legislation that does little more than tilting at windmills. No wonder California is in such a financial mess.
Leave it to the Northern California liberals to come up with this
Okay, the point here is really about pushing for reparations and not much else. An apology can be seen as an admission of guilt and getting corporate America to admit to guilt in this issue no matter how coerced and absurd it may seem is a means for building a case that renumeration is due. California is not just crazy left – its dangerous.
How stupid is everyone? Let’s just go back and include 18th century slavery ties and shut down the whole country.
People need to get a grip!
What % of their proceeds will Black Contractors have to pay for America’s Black slave dealers and Black slave owners? More reasearch would reveal the % of Black slaveowners in American history. Slavery was bad, but let’s get the history straight. You will find that “THE FIRST BLACK SLAVE IN VIRGINIA” WAS OWNED BY A BLACK MAN! This is documented in court records. In my city in Virginia over 200 slaves were owned by about 150 Black residents prior to the War. All folks need to a proper education about who they are! Lose that history what comes next?