Blacks Enslaved by Left, Argues New Film
Around 200 people gathered in a D.C. theater last night to watch the Washington premiere of Runaway Slave, a documentary by African-American Tea Party activist Rev. C. L. Bryant that encourages the black community to rethink its 95 percent voting rate for the Democratic Party.
Drawing on the history and language of slavery, the film argues that the Democratic Party and the welfare state are the new version of the slave-holding plantation, keeping black people mentally enslaved.
In the opening of the documentary, Bryant visits dueling Washington, D.C., rallies. At the Lincoln Memorial, Glenn Beck leads the “Restoring Honor” rally while the Rev. Al Sharpton leads the “Reclaim the Dream” rally in an African-American section of the city.
“Why aren’t these Americans with the others?” Bryant asks. “Why are we divided along racial lines?”
He then sets out to talk to black conservative leaders and everyday African-Americans on the street. He interviews high-profile black conservatives such as Hoover Institute scholar Thomas Sowell, onetime presidential candidate Herman Cain, U.S. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) and pundit Star Parker.
The film is best, however, when it profiles people in the trenches, such as the Oceanside, Calif., school board under fire for ending the school district busing program or Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the South Central L.A. Tea Party. Believing the problems in the black community are caused by the breakup of the family unit, Peterson runs a program called BOND, training young men to grow into fathers.
“They’ve been deceived that race is their issue,” says Peterson. “But that’s really not it. It’s the breakup of the home.”
Many of the interviewees in the movie trace their politics back to Frederick Douglass, a renowned former slave who became a leader of the newly liberated people. He rejected dependence of any sort for former slaves and asked only that they have the same opportunities to provide for themselves as other people had. The Frederick Douglass Association is a nationwide organization that embraces this heritage.
The film also covers the abortion of African-American babies at disproportionately high rates and speaks with activist Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.
Bryant does not hesitate to place himself in provocative situations. He stands at the foot of the podium while NAACP speakers denounce the Tea Party as racist. He takes his questions directly to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who refuse to speak with him.
Colleges are the white plantations. They appeal to the narrow minded now. Freedom is a responsibility that requires responsibility.
blah blah blah…blah blah. Spoon feed that mash to someone that hasn’t heard it before.
Please little White man do not nominate Rick goober Sanitorium who wants to convert us all to that pagan Catholic religion he can not beat Pres Obama that would mean that I would have to listen to four more years of your Whinning about everything the Pres and his family does.My ears cant take four more years of Republican hate radio and the White mans incessant Whinning.
And the First Card played by a member of the left is……
I guess we have a “Whinner” here…
Just as dumb as the rest of them aren’t you, go vote for George Wallace in the next election I hear he’s a good little Democrat boy.
A hint: most blog readers overlook misspellings, especially “teh” or “adn” where it’s clear the poster has merely made a typo. But when your post specifically attacks someone’s intelligence, all your grammatical errors are magnified and YOU are the one who looks stupid.
Go brush up on your punctuation after you go see what Mom wants; I think she’s calling you from the kitchen.
There is none so blind as who will not see. If you choose to keep the blinders on, it’s your fault.
don’t worry , if obama wins you won’t have to worry about anything except how that brown shirt and those jack boots are gonna fit while you’re standing in that bread line , and bowing to the east on your little gov issued prayer rug.
. oh and the tattoo…right across your forehead will be a nice touch.
Don’t be silly.The US is too civilized to use tattoos .Try microchips.
thank you for correcting me..:) you are right…that way we can be tracked anywhere we try to hide…
Read pages 1005 – 1007 of the OBAMACARE where it mandates that EVERYONE is to have a RFID (microchip) within 36 months from the date that OBAMACARE is enacted.
Do you fry your fish in water?
Dear Stupid troll, you ignorant puto, I am from the ghetto on the eastside and I tell you we as minorities have been enslaved by the state thanks to the liberal and RINO elites of this country, you need to wake up, and what you said about the Catholic Church as pagan, sir, you troll, then why are you reading the bible a book compiled by the Catholic Church. Enough about religion, we are supposed to be free brothers, so wake up bobfryfish, wake up.
truth be spoken, they will enslave us all. the last hope for the black man is the conservatives who’ll fight to their dying breath for freedom for all in the u.s.of a. the establishment of progressives -socialist who want a One World Gvt., will be hard to defeat. many people say it’s too late, not enough of the people are awake etc… Our nation was given our rights by the creator our inalienable rights do not come from man. Our founders gave us the greatest document to govern by in the worlds history, it led to the most prosperous nation on earth which and helped untold millions on this planet earth. though not perfect we unite and should always remember we are to continually strife to form a more perfect union. Those who are destroying our foundation (Constitution) can’t be anything but evil. They do not see in terms of color of skin, they will enslave all and eliminate masses who do not serve a purpose. Divine intervention pray for it everyone. and if BO is re-elected work hard to make your voices heard constantly, if he is defeated, work even HARDER bkz the RINO is no different and there is no chance, that I can tell, a real patriot will win in 2012. Perhaps after 2013 as we start looking more like Greece, the people will wake up and we’ll get someone willing to run that wants to do the right thing for our country.
check it, puto! you been enslaved by the democrats who started their “social engineering program” eons ago…to divide families, make poor households dependent on “the man” and rely for GENERATIONS on the handouts of the government. YOU took the bait. YOU decided to take the easy road instead of fight to stand on your own two feet. YOU ARE THE SLAVE and you chose to BE A SLAVE and STAY A SLAVE. Open your eyes, homie!
Any human who thinks of themselves first and foremost by race as if it makes a difference will be a failure – to argue there is racism whether we like it or not is to buy into fear instead of fighting it and ignores the difference between de facto racism and institutionalized racism. Assemble a culture of racialism and that culture will be a failure. Rouse yourself and assemble yourselves based on interests devoid of a racial dimension and you at least have a fighting chance at success.
A country , society devoid of racism, people working together, everyone contributing..no need for welfare, affirmative action.. sounds wonderful doesn’t it?..
HOWEVER, the idea doesnt have a snoball’s chance of success in this country with this media we have in place…getting along and respecting each other, working together would not be newsworthy.
I didn’t mean to suggest a country devoid of racism but rather a country devoid of de jure and institutionalized racism versus individual racism. The former must be fought against and can be since it is a fixed target one can pin down. The latter must be ignored because it often requires mind reading to ferret it out and pops up here and there in disconnected and anecdotal ways; it can never be completely eradicated. Using cheap psychology that the mere presence of a last place team is proof of racism ignores the fact that there is always someone in last place, especially when racial huddling produces markedly different value systems both good and bad.
In this sense a first place team could be there because of the sloppy discipline of the last place team; or that first place team could have the discipline of Navy Seals. One can’t mandate and social engineer such things and they must be left alone or let’s then bring affirmative action to the NBA and NFL instead of having a double standard that only favors minorities.
My point was that black Americans, or anyone else who huddles by race for that matter, will never be the success story they want to be until they ironically stop thinking of themselves as a culture and race.
In these terms, black Americans are the most conspicuously in harm’s way and the delusion is self-evident. Black folks pillory whites, particularly on the Conservative Right, as racists but it was black folks who voted for Obama to the tune of 96%. Whites are treated as if they are the ones who did this and one can then only imagine how much worse whites would be thought of if they had voted for McCain to the tune of 96%
I know damn well what that would’ve meant for the average white American and I’m glad it didn’t happen. However it begs the question of how many generations black Americans will need to escape from the perceptual trap of their own making, the one with “dog-whistles” and racist Hallmark Cards and every other thing which magnifies the slightest de facto racism by white folks while minimizing the conspicuous de jure and institutionalized racism practiced by black Americans and supported by the Democratic Party.
I couldn’t agree more with Fail Burton. We have been dealing with overt and covert racism not only before and after the Civil War, but in the policies put in place by “progressives” and other faux liberals. I tried to do a summary here, including the turn to primitivism that elevated many a black entertainer into the celebrity culture that has only held the mass of black persons back. Here is the link to one of many blogs on this subject: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/08/racism-modernity-modernism/.
The “government slave masters” would have nobody to rule over. That my dear friend will NEVER happen
“Why are we divided along racial lines?”….because the media is owned by the left which drives the message; they want division (apparently) and (apparently) there are a bunch of folks in this country of all colors who don’t have the ability to see through the deceptions and manipulations(apparently). That my guess.
BTW, I saw (again) today the ad for “whereblacksmeet.com” or something like that, a dating service intended (apparently) just for blacks. I haven’t seen the one yet that is marketed as “whites meeting whites” or “where whites meet”….must have just missed it.
You haven’t missed it: black culture websites with mainstream ads and celebrity participation commonly carry such racial ads and there is simply no such thing as a mainstream white culture site in existence in the United States. This not being able to see the forest for the trees shows the hypocritical level of delusion practiced on the Left and particularly the black Left.
The contemptible Valerie Jarrett just gave a speech to a largely African American audience celebrating welfare checks as economic stimulus and I wonder when the courageous will stand up and say ENOUGH, we want to learn to fish not just eat one day.
So Congratulations for this film, hopefully it will educate about all different tpes of enslavement. Isn’t the LEFTISTS disngenuous rhetoric that manipulates exactly what MLK was warning against??
‘Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!’
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” Negro Social and Political Thought 1850-1920: Representative Texts, edited by Howard Brotz (New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1962), p. 283.
is not affirmative action and other programs to do exactly as you’ve stated, well Douglas I should say, to give a chance. that is what we’re told, to give a fair playing field. does it offend you that such preferences are given to black americans? my only problem is my black friends don’t like that they are often thought of as gotten special considerations for entering college or jobs. However, it is true that points etc. are given for writing down of a persons name. entry into schools where the brightest are not getting in bkz of % to include minorities. I learned recently bkz Asians scoore so high they do not want to admit on applications to being asian. they must score as much as 50 points higher than whites to get into some of the ivy league schools. they are punished for their achievments in edu. bkz they work hard at learning? it is very crazy out there.
I’ve been waiting on this film to come out for a while now. I can’t wait to see it. I want it come directly to DVD or VOD so that I can catch it immediately instead of having to wait until I get back stateside, or for it to be released to DVD. The movie theatre is dying anyway. This film can be more successful bypassing the theatre and going directly to its customers.
Yesterday I read about this new museum that is to be constructed in Washington DC. It will be dedicated exclusively to African American culture and history. Of course Obama showed up, campaigning for the black votes as always. But why build such a museum ? Isn´t it better to make a point of including all sorts of American heritages ? Like Bryant says, why keep dividing along racial lines ?Race has been a political tool for too long and Obama uses it shamelessly.Victimizing will ” keep blacks mentally enslaved “. I really look forward to this film.
How do you know? You’re Swedish
McCain racked up a booming 4% of the black vote, when you round it up.
When I tell black people that I am a Republican their brains freeze. They cannot reconcile that the guy they were shooting the breeze with 2 minutes before is the diabolical force that Rev. Wright warned them about. To be honest, I get a big kick out of it.
As somebody who went to crappy public schools we are not taught about Hayek, the constitution, Thomas Paine, Adam Smith, VDH, Declaration of Independence, Magna Carta, Dan Henninger, Montesquieu, DeToquevill,…
It is not that hard to understand, you just need to read it.
Y’know, I think I just might like you. I know I like your style.
I submit my ovation to the intelligence in the documentary and Rev. Bryant.
Logic like this posted at “American Thinker” support the race based legislation:
It’s so easy to fool people today, about what’s black, white; up down; in, out; soft, or hard. Just give it a sly euphemism.
Sounds like this doc. may do some good but I doubt it tells the whole story. We need to understand all our history if we are to restore Liberty here.
And please don’t call our domestic enemies ‘the left.’ They are communistist, regardless of what cute names they tag themselves with. And yes, they ‘dominate’ the corporate media, owned by the same corporations they claim to be against. This should make us go hmmmmm… along with a lot of other things.
Don’t understand? Start here:
http://willowtown.com/promo/quotes.htm
And don’t miss this book:
http://tinyurl.com/7f8wv9s
…and other works by the same author.
Sounds like this doc. may do some good but I doubt it tells the whole story. We need to understand all our history if we are to restore Liberty here.
And please don’t call our domestic enemies ‘the left.’ They are Communists, regardless of what cute names they tag themselves with. And yes, they ‘dominate’ the corporate media, owned by the same corporations they claim to be against. This should make us go hmmmmm… along with a lot of other things.
Don’t understand? Start here:
http://willowtown.com/promo/quotes.htm
And don’t miss this book:
http://tinyurl.com/7f8wv9s
…and other works by the same author.
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”
“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.”
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt: More of this speech at http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/05/teddy-roosevelt-no-room-in-this-country.html
Call me a cynic but it smells like the 2006 Juan Williams book The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America–and What We Can Do About It (http://www.amazon.com/Enough-Dead-End-Movements-Undermining-America/dp/0307338231/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t). It’s a powerful tale of the misery that socialism leaves in its wake and how it’s utterly crippled Black America. What’s even more remarkable is the honesty and the integrity Juan Williams has shown by abandoning the Democratic Party to become a stalwart Conservative and champion of freedom, liberty, individual rights and economic prosperity (NOT!). The next time you have the unfortunate circumstance to see Juan, ask him what he’s done about the Phony Leaders and Culture of Failure other than rabidly support them.
Juan is a good case study – he knows the Democratic Party is destroying “his people”, he knows there’s a much better alternative, but he’s been co-opted by the Democratic Party Establishment. His future depends on peddling the lies that spew forth from Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. If he doesn’t play nice then his access to the lies is cut-off and he’d be unemployed. But at least Juan has the comfort of knowing that he’s actively destroying Black America so he’s not a useful idiot. No, he’s just one of the many faces of evil in the world. He does everything in his power to prevent a better future for Black America and he does it for personal gain. Juan Williams – slave master.
As you say, this 2006 book of Juan W’s was wonderful; well thought out & researched. He made great points and seemed to be intellectually honest. In fact, giving ‘his people’ much badly-needed info. Not that it made (nor will make) any ding-dong difference, but I actually wrote to him several yrs. ago …
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Mr. Williams:
I have listened to and read you for years, even buying several of your books. Always before you seemed to me a disciplined liberal, who really thought about issues before voicing an opinion — until this last year, when it appeared you became the #1 supporter and apologist for both Obama and his administration. Many things you’ve said since the fall of 2008 were — and continue to be –almost diametrically opposed to many of your previously stated positions. There are times when on Fox as a panelist, and other appearances where I swear I can literally see you squirm and mentally contort yourself into an assigned cubbyhole of “approved” belief.
HOW did someone like you become such a shill? I can almost understand a lot of lame-stream media: it’s a chicken or egg question. Did they pick journalism because they are liberals, or are they liberals because they work in journalism? However, you are the odd duck in this regard; before now you forcefully came across as a person with a liberal bias, yes — but good common sense as well. AND you could back up your opinion with well thought out views without resorting to non sequiturs, ad hominem attacks and name-calling. Now, no matter how awful Obama’s policies (even if they’re a continuation of the hated Dubya’s), you tout him as a shining light on the highest hill.
I’m SO disappointed. I really had hoped that you — a previous light of the left — would have the courage to come clean and admit when something’s terrible policy. I’m not even saying questionable policy, but stuff that’s out-and-out, plain ol’ bad. Nope. You suck it up and plow on, upholding and touting things on behalf of Obama and his administration that before you wouldn’t have countenanced for a minute, or endured for a second.
I find I can’t even ask you to reconsider and perhaps change your mind, because having come so far down this road, I doubt you can turn back. I just hope however much you were paid off to sell your soul was enough, because now that you’re just another race-baiting RACIST, my buying your books had come to a screeching halt.
Juan clearly fits the old saying that “liberalism is a mental disorder”. In the abstract he knows that the Democratic Party has been a disaster for every group that has embraced it, be they unions, feminists, or blacks, but in the everyday rough and tumble of life he can’t admit the simple truth – he, Juan Williams, the smartest man in his brain, was conned, fooled, duped, hornswoggled, bamboozled and otherwise tricked by a whole lot of nothing presented by a legion of truly mediocre individuals. Rather than admit his error, which his book details nicely, he continues to perpetuate the lie, which means he’s knowingly doing harm to those he professes to care about.
If you look at a group of committed leftists you’ll see that the predominate emotion is rage. That rage comes from the “Big Lie”… they know they’re wrong, they know they’re making fools of themselves but they can’t admit that they made a mistake so they become even more strident, which means compounding the error which increases the rage and the cycle continues until they destroy everything and everyone around them. They can’t exit the cycle because that would mean admitting error and they’re so much smarter than everybody else that they’d never make a mistake. That’s why elitism is so pernicious, average people would just say “oops” but intellectual poseurs can’t admit the error for fear of being unmasked as mediocre.
Juan Williams is a personal Power Seeker, who suffers “Inside the Beltway” disease, like most pundits in Washington.
I would like to see this movie. I am not black but I agree with this premise. Knowledge is what people should seek. Racial balance cannot be acheived by demanding it. I have read a few things about Frederick Douglas we were never taught in school. He is not alone in being deleted from our history. Liberals are responsible for this. What mindset keeps black people voting to enslave themselves?
African-American Tea Party activist Rev. C. L. Bryant that encourages the black community to rethink its 95 percent voting rate for the Democratic Party.
I’ll never forget a black guy at a Tea Party rally who was asked, on camera, why he wasn’t with “his” people.
He answered: “I’m with my people. Americans.”
(Bryant) takes his questions directly to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who refuse to speak with him.
There’s a big feather in your cap right there
Jesse was so jealous that a prétendeur should upstage his race hustling gig that he wanted to “cut Obama’s nuts off”.
“Jesse was so jealous that a prétendeur should upstage his race hustling gig that he wanted to ‘cut Obama’s nuts off’.”
Then he changed his mind and decided he’d rather wear them on his chin.
Exciting possibilities for this documentary film. I’m down to see it distributed. I know several black folk who are embarrassed/insulted by this President but fearful to say so publicly. Hopefully this film can reinforce some spines.
Spine is needed all over this country against unprecedented numbers of bought and sold drones.
We are all minorities.Why should Obama’s kids get affirmative action preference because they are black? Who gets to say who is a Hispanic? The very word white is racist.Why should so many victimized as non-white now be treated as white?Universities systematically discriminate against asians using holistic admissions as a disguise for cruel racial stereotyping,Calling me white insults my many ancestors who died from not being white.Let’s have a national conversation on gets to be a minority.
If Blacks are enslaved by our social programs, why aren’t all poor people? Answer: They are not.
Oh yes they are. Speaking from Britain, the TV series “Shameless” shows how welfare programs, that started out by helping people, gradually instil a culture of dependency, cheating, and detachment from mainstream society. (I haven’t seen the US version of “Shameless”.)
Most of us want to have a safety net for people who fall on hard times; but for large numbers of people, welfare can become a trap from which they lose the will to escape. We haven’t yet worked out how to have one without the other.
Part of the problem is that politicians (or public sector employees) whose support (or livelihood) comes from welfare recipients have a perverse incentive _not_ to solve the problems that these families face.
The challenge for conservatives is to offer people something better than saying “we’re going to stop your welfare benefits and let you fend for yourselves”.
People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would not want racism to end even if it were possible to completely eradicate it. Their power is in the anger and frustration they gin up among fellow blacks, making them believe their problem is the white man holding them back. Obama is an expert at this also. It’s the old divide and conquer strategy. The breakdown of the family has negatively affected the whole country, but the black family particularly hard. It is not hard to see that having two parents is always better than one (with a few exceptions). Each parent contributes their unique gifts to parenting, and children need both.
This is the 3rd film I’ve read about this afternoon (“Wanderlust” and “Act of Valor” the others) that counter the dominant narrative that has been emanating from the socialist, progressive left with increasing venom and fervor in recent years. It is about time, long overdue and hopefully a sign that the Americans for America giant is alive, well and finally coming awake. Interjecting itself in the mass media market long dominated by the predominantly radical left is turning the radical left’s favorite, most effective, destructive weapon reloaded with the pro American message, against them; an absolutely necessary tactic if discrediting and correcting the inculcated narrative, currently predominant in the culture, is to be accomplished.
There’s a reasonable argument to be made that the breakup of homes in the black community is due in no small part to the War on Drugs. The mass imprisonment of a significant percentage of black males due to mandatory sentencing laws and the subsequent stigma of being a convict is having a huge deleterious effect on the community. Add in the states which disenfranchise convicts and you have a group pushed further to the fringes of society.
That’s not a liberal talking, that’s the opinion of the Cato Institute.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv9n1.pdf
Then there’s the breakdown of the statistics.
http://tremblethedevil.com/?p=1693
Just in case anyone is still wondering about the comment made by Anonymous regarding microchips, here is what you’ll find on pages 1005-1007 of Obamacare:
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Now I see.
Welfare spending spiked in the early 1970s, not immediately after 1962 welfare act. What happened in the early 1970s? The war on drugs started. There’s a strong argument to be made that the war on drugs is a significant contributing factor to the break up of the black family. It is hard to have a successful family when a sizable percentage of black men are either in jail or convicted felons. Fathers are either missing or unable to get a job thanks to the stigma of the conviction. Add in the fact that many states disenfranchise felons and you end up with population without a voice pushed to the fringes. The interesting thing is that blacks are less likely to use drugs than whites, but are far more likely to be arrested, convicted, and sentenced to significant time in prison–see disparity in mandatory minimums for crack versus powder cocaine.
This is not the whining of some hippy liberal, this is the consensus of the Cato Institute: http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv9n1.pdf
For a look at the numbers: http://tremblethedevil.com/?p=1693
Note: for some reason a previous version of this comment did not post.
There is a problem inherent in adhering to government’s conflicting definitions of what one is and is not “for the purposes of … ” depending upon whichever bureaucracy is writing the rules and regulations, especially where “Race” is concerned. Don’t forget it was racist democrats of the old south that instituted (and enforced) the “One Drop Rule”. (Meaning that if you have “One Drop” of “[Black]” DNA in your bloodstream, you’re counted as “100% [Black]“. Something our government still does to this day.) In the case of the married man claiming to be single because he and his wife are separated, you may lay the source of confusion at the feet of the Department of Treasury’s IRS rules for his tax status “if you have lived apart for the entire year”, etc.. That would be the most likely source of many’s confusion, as they’re exposed to this governments definitional status “logic” on a ten to one ratio compared to the decadal census taking. (However, “Actual Enumeration” means what it says, Justice Bryer notwithstanding.) I prefer the scientific classification, “Caucasian” to “White” and so duly cross out “White” by the box I’ve checked and writ large “Caucasian” instead. Why? Because a “Rainbow” is made up of “Separate, But Equal” bands of colors that do not mix on their own. I consider my “Ethnicity” to be “American”. Here’s why: I was once asked by a fellow (female) community action group member, “What” I was. When I responded “American”, she went into apoplexy, admonishing me sternly that I couldn’t make that claim, as that wasn’t a “recognized, legitimate” category or group. I responded that when I was stationed near Munich, West Germany, I was asked, in German, the same question. I then told her I responded thus: “Armenischer, Englander, Franklander, Hollander und Scotlander”, to which my German questioner, bursting into a big smile said, “Ach! Amerikaner!”. I told her it was a lesson I’ve never forgotten. As long as we Balkanize, segregate, separate, categorize, fold, spindle and mutilate the American polity, we diminish this grand experiment. We must embrace our uniquely American commonality, especially those precepts as espoused in our Constitution and its Preamble thereto that bind us together. We must disavow those who would divide to conquer, control and diminish us, both as a people and as a nation. Once again I ask you. Am I wrong to insist on my “Americanism”? Especially since my grandparents sacrificed so much just to get here to raise a family in freedom? If you agree with her, please follow her advice. Just do it somewhere else. Otherwise, welcome to my country.
One could argue that in the old south, the slaves had to be treated better, because unlike share croppers, that were only paid during the season, slaves had to be fed, housed and taken care of year round.
Also it is highly suspect that slaves would deliberately be mistreated, because the cost of procuring a slave was so expensive that the investment had to taken care so the plantation owner would make money back on his purchase.