With stunning eloquence, this freed slave told his former master to go **** himself. An edited version is below; for the story, complete letter, and more letters from freed slaves, go here. Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir, I got your le[...]
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Florida Gov. DeSantis’ bizarre claims about slavery
Defending his efforts to censor the history taught in Florida’s schools, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis made the wildly inaccurate statement at left. In fact, British courts were questioning slavery well before the American Revolution, and the British Empire abolished slavery decades before America did[...]
June 30th, 2022 - 5:25 pm § in Racism, Schools & Colleges
Slavery by any other name is still slavery
Texas is some kind of unique animal, a unicorn among states, in the sense of “only in Texas …” For example, only in Texas do a dozen or more cops mill around outside a school for 70 minutes while a crazed gunman is slaughtering children in the classroom. Only in Texas do people fre[...]
April 2nd, 2022 - 2:39 pm § in Misc.
Southern slavery, circa 2022
Slavery still exists in the American south; it’s just not legal anymore, that’s all. Three men who imported farm labor slaves from Central America are going to federal prison. Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr., 24, got 30 years; Aurelio Medina, 42, got 5 years and 4 months; and Yordon Velazquez[...]
Tennessee teacher fired for telling white students their ancestors weren’t oppressed slaves
White privilege is real, and white students do have advantages, but you can’t tell them that if you want to teach in Tennessee. Matthew Hawn (photo, left), a tenured high school teacher who taught a social studies class on “Contemporary Issues” in Kingsport, found that out the hard[...]
October 29th, 2021 - 2:21 pm § in Misc.
Slavery in ICE detention facilities
Until two days ago, immigrants in a Washington state ICE detention facility were forced to work for $1 by the private contractor who runs the prison-like facility. These immigrants haven’t been charged or convicted of crimes, but they’re confined while the government determines their imm[...]
September 23rd, 2021 - 2:24 pm § in Racism
Robert E. Lee statue replaced with slave tribute
Robert E. Lee wasn’t the hero of mythology. He was a slaveowner who led an army that fought a treasonous war of rebellion with the aim of preserving the “abominable institution” of slavery. Good riddance to his statue. Southern whites were never victims of oppression; they were opp[...]
September 7th, 2021 - 5:14 pm § in Politics
GOP candidate wants reparations for slave owners
Larry Elder, a Los Angeles radio talk show host (bio here), probably won’t be governor of California even though he’s the leading GOP candidate to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, in the September 20, 2021, recall election. (Read story here.) He’s well behind Newsom in polls,[...]
May 2nd, 2021 - 7:11 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
The wages of slavery
A South Carolina restaurant manager who worked a black slave 100 hours a week without pay for 6 years has to pay the emancipated slave over $500,000 in back wages. Bobby Paul Edwards (below left), 56, also was handed a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to forced labor charges. Re[...]
Was the Civil War about slavery?
This article is liberal commentary. Lincoln didn’t think so. He didn’t get around to emancipating the slaves until 3 years into the war, and then only in the secessionist states, as a measure to punish them for secession and pressure them to give up. Lincoln fought the Civil War to prese[...]