Slavery by Another Name Documentary

this the one we watched in my class in college

Just reading this thread is crazy how f***ed the education system is here. I was taught all of this in high school but the fact that if shocks some people speaks volumes

I went to a good high school and they barely teach you s*** about african american history (Pennsylvania)

i'm still tryna unlearn a decade worth of being taught the Abeka cirriculum man

Abeka Book, LLC, known as A Beka Book until 2017, is an American publisher affiliated with Pensacola Christian College that produces K-12 curriculum materials that are used by Christian schools and homeschooling families around the world.

Well I knew about American slavery from the get-go. Essentially not forgotten unlike the indentured servants and Ottoman slave trade.

Ottomans had the Balkans on a 500+ year chokehold of rape & murder and taking away their male kids to make them soldiers

when prisons are abolished

Yeah once I read about Andrew Johnson and his whole term it’s really eye opening, that whole period between 1850-1900s America is interesting imo

The application of critical theory would change a LOT, what won’t change is the power structure that actively prevents such applications because it threatens their power structure

UC Berkeley actually did a study on de facto segregation and much of de facto segregation and the economic conditions that a lot of African Americans today still currently face

belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism

100% recommend reading. The statistics at the beginning are horrifying

Other sources for slavery, racism & segregation I would reocmmend:

Gerald Horne: The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States

Bruce Western: Mass Imprisonment and Economic Inequality

I feel like this should’ve been evident

The legal rehabilitation of black people does nothing to materially rehabilitate their position in society since there was nothing done to address the cultural and economic bias that has always existed against Black Americans

You’re nothing in this country without money, even if you’re given the rights you deserved for so long. And if the entire country still thinks of you as a lesser being, then what is to be done ?

I didn't know about labor leasing though. That's f***ing wild. Dieing in the coal mines just for swearing.

Plus it's good that dude at the end was saying he didn't feel guilty for being white (which some libs think is enough) and instead is guilty about not knowing the s***.

“But Africans sold Africans.”
“White people were slaves too.”
“My family didn’t own any slaves.”
“But Martin Luther King said...”
“Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.”

pretty much. There's only so much federal law and judicial decisions can do, and even then the federal laws relating to fair housing are bare bones. There was little to no guidelines on African Americans (and most minorities for that matter) for integrating into white neighborhoods and there were legal fights stretching up into the 1980s with white neighborhoods fighting against integrating

This country’s educational system is predicated on brainwashing propaganda instead of critical thinking, because critical thinking prevents people from being blind to just how much evil stuff this country has gotten away with

People still think that we kumbaya’d with the native Americans, deserved to expand to the pacific coast, and are a force for peace and freedom when the government has actively suppressed so many movements that have such ideals, yet threaten their power position

thought-terminating cliches

“It was 200 years ago, get over it”

the last "recorded" lynching was barely 40 years ago....jesus christ

"Slavery was a Choice" .... made my heart sink as a Ye stan

Ye says alot of stupid s***, but this overstepped the line and i'm glad he apologised for it although many won't forget it.

Ain't that what Juneteenth is about?

frfr that came to mind when I was watching this and I just felt so sad

yes and no video well worth the watch man

Yeah as much as I joke on Ye I knew he meant well with that but I just know some of his stans took that to heart

Also why I partially cringe every time Ye tries to be buddy buddy with any billionaire

Watch the video all of this is addressed

I thought everyone realised he was referring to mental slavery lmao