But that’s what our younger generations are being taught/led to believe (re: Black Lives Matter):
In a world largely free of slavery today, it may seem hard to realize that slavery was an almost universal institution for thousands of years. Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was based on race, for most of the millennia in which slavery existed around the world, it was based on whoever was vulnerable to enslavement and within striking distance.
-Prof Thomas Sowell (Wealth, Poverty and Politics)
America was established as a series of colonies, often on the basis of religion with much of it coming from European settlers looking for a better life in the New World. Most were Christian, read the Bible as their foundational theological text, and were well acquainted with the enslavement of the Jewish people over the ages – thousands of years ago. Now, all we hear about in pop culture were Blacks that were imported into what is now America without the context that America was NOT the largest percentage, destination-wise, of the slave trade originating by Blacks and Arabs from Africa. Our Educational system, just by dint of what we DON’T hear, doesn’t teach that slavery has been universal in human history and location.
The problem was, and still is where slavery is STILL practiced, the result of Strong Man governance (by the failure of government; our Southern border has become a haven of human trafficking as the Biden Administration has refused to “faithfully execute” our immigration laws with the result of the cartels schlepping human chattel in and out of our “free” country).
But BLM was a great play for political game for a couple of years – and, as we have recently seen, degenerated into a mere financial racket. Just like the George Floyd death started a movement based on Oppressor/Oppressed, that turned into a pretense of slavery, I see a similar political play in the works here with the Gunstock politics. No, the latter has nothing to do with the former but the structure and performance has been similar even as the focal point is far different (people versus a rock pile but using OTHER people to shaft for that political stance).
The common thread is that certain, very distasteful people will use any tool or advantage they can muster up in order to achieve their political end – which generally (when one is being objective) the use of politics to enslave others to a particular idea that promotes themselves over others.
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
