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Beginning of US Slavery... Walter E. Williams
« on: August 28, 2019, 02:51:45 pm »
Beginning of US Slavery
Walter E. Williams

Posted: Aug 28, 2019 12:01 AM

The New York Times has begun a major initiative, the "1619 Project," to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe American history so that slavery and the contributions of black Americans explain who we are as a nation. Nikole Hannah-Jones, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine wrote the lead article, "America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One." She writes, "Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different -- it might not be a democracy at all."

There are several challenges one can make about Hannah-Jones's article, but I'm going to focus on the article's most serious error, namely that the nation's founders intended for us to be a democracy. That error is shared by too many Americans. The word democracy appears nowhere in the two most fundamental founding documents of our nation -- the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Instead of a democracy, the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4, declares, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." Think about it and ask yourself whether our Pledge of Allegiance says to "the democracy for which it stands" or to "the republic for which it stands." Is Julia Ward Howe's popular Civil War song titled "The Battle Hymn of the Democracy" or "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"?
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The founders had utter contempt for democracy. James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper No. 10, that in a pure democracy "there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual." At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, delegate Edmund Randolph said, "that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy." John Adams said: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall observed, "Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."

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Re: Beginning of US Slavery... Walter E. Williams
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2019, 07:35:46 pm »
We were controlled by Britain from 1607 till 1789!!!

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Re: Beginning of US Slavery... Walter E. Williams
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2019, 12:27:45 am »
Dr. Williams is 100% correct across the board. He usually is.
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Re: Beginning of US Slavery... Walter E. Williams
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2019, 05:22:44 am »
Sorry, but so much is just silly. The indigenous peoples were well known for taking and keeping slaves, be they of other tribes, colonists, or whoever was available. The worthy were married into the tribe and their genetics absorbed. Those less so, never attained status, and were even sacrificed to deities. The practice was common throughout most of North America, and even more brutal in MesoAmerica, where sacrifice was common.

How long this went on, no one knows for certain, but with the advent of humans on the continent in excess of 12,500 years ago there were thousands of years for the practice of slavery to be instituted and evolve, long before the first white Europeans set eyes on the New World.

A.D. Sixteen nineteen is a late date, indeed, and is suffers from the tunnel vision common to those who have a racial agenda.
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