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Yes, it was "illegal" to import enslaved people (as if people obeyed the law). However, consider the following: A lot of contraband trade continued well after the cessation of the Asiento in 1807 and was carried out by northerners and southerners. The North furnished the ships that carried enslaved people; insurance companies were created to give the South policies to "insure their property"; banks provided loans and mortgages to slaveholders to buy more kidnapped people; and textile mills wove much of the cotton into cloth to sell on the international market. Everyone's hands were dirty! Why did Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder himself, delete the prohibition against slavery before the Constitution was ratified? Because the other slaveholders refused to sign it until he did! Why was the 3/5ths clause included in the Constitution from the very beginning? Because slaveholders wanted to count enslaved people as part of their population for congressional seats while denying them freedom. Why was there a Civil War? Because slaveholders both North and South wanted to maintain an internationally lucrative operation based on stolen land from Native Americans and forced labor from stolen people. It does not matter that other Africans offered prisoners of war as slaves. So-called Christian Europeans did not have to purchase or exploit them for profit. Why were state Black Codes in the 1680s and 1690s enacted as well as federal U.S. Supreme Court rulings like the Dred Scott decision (1857), the repeal of the 1875 Civil Rights Act (in 1888), and the Plessy vs. Ferguson, "separate but equal" law (1896) enacted? To control every aspect of the lives of enslaved people. Why were Jim Crow laws enacted? To "keep black people in their place." Why was it necessary to have a modern Civil Rights Movement starting in the 1950s and moving forward? Because racial apartheid was/is entrenched in this society. Why was so much lynching done in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including recent police murders? Because many whites were jealous of the little economic success black people managed to achieve and decided that it would be easier to kill us than get along with us. Shall we continue? You need to really read and study history as it happened not as you imagine it. Thank you.

@@dellitaogunsola9544 All you have stated reveals just how deeply the WORLD-WIDE trade of slaves was and is! The fact is America is based on certain specific values that you seem to negate as some kind of 'White Supremacy' . . . when it is not nor ever was meant to be! The values these great men sought to instill into society are still grand values for all mankind, for all human beings! YOU WANT TO RANT ON ABOUT STUDYING HISTORY . . . BACK AT YOU . . . BECAUSE YOUR IGNORANCE IS SHOWING!!!

Seems to me you are merely arguing sentax! Nothing dissimilar to the epic "Chicken or egg came first?" conundrum. Whether an organized body was formed or a peoples peopled a formed politic (😂) & established laws, you have a "government". Spin your narrative if you must, just be principled and factual! #da system

While I think so many in the black community, and those that consider them selves allies, disparage this country more than they should and they don’t seem to have the context to understand most countries have done similar things, I think you’re missing a lot here. You should do as I’m doing and going through and watching multiple Long interviews with this writer. As I remember in a recent video I watched she said that she’s not trying to tell the history of slavery or other countries, she’s telling how she believes the original sin of America has has continued in one way or another. This is the country that started by saying it was for freedom and liberty for all, yet it did not live up to those ideas. I don’t agree that the country was founded by people who viewed slavery is wrong. Some dead, some didn’t. The one nice thing they could’ve done was make more laws protecting slaves. That you can’t force the women to have sex, you can’t sell their children, you can’t break up marriages, and you can’t whip them for small in fractions. It might not have necessarily been possible in that climate, but that tells you that wasn’t important. Even if it wasn’t necessarily normal to do from the federal government because of how the federal government was so limited and power, states could’ve done it. Or maybe they could’ve got around it and had the federal government basically say if you did do something really bad to a slave that they were able to see you, Collect money, and buy their own freedom. I’m not even saying it would necessarily work hardly ever, but maybe it would set up some morality and how slaves should be treated. My viewpoint is that people who are enthralled with the 1619 project very possibly like to view this country as horrible in one form or another, and maybe people like you like to view it as virtually all the black community’s fault and that the country is the best in the world.

@@dellitaogunsola9544 - I’m so glad you didn’t mention anything incorrect about the 3/5ths compromise. So many people view that as disparaging Black people because they were only counted as 3/5ths. But obviously the problem is that 3/5 is too high, it should’ve been 1/5 or nothing. But every time I hear about 3/5th in the constitution people act as though it’s immoral that Black slaves were not a full person for the census. And people who know better don’t correct those who don’t know any better.

Obviously you are interested in facts or history - just the version of history you agree with or like.

@@DG-cc6tx I'm interested in the truth. What else is there?

@@DG-cc6tx My history is something where genuine causal relations exist.

That has yet to be proven! Now is this YOUR incredible opinion or credible by fact?! Hmm...

Say that

They applaud their racism silently. White people are not ignorant about racism.

@@stephdrake2521 Go cry somewhere

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The fact is that every single failing black school is in urban areas that have been controlled by democrats for decades. Democrat mayors and democrat city councils. One after the other for the past 50 years. And yet nothing ever changes. Until the unfortunate blacks that live in these areas decide they want something better nothing will ever change. The cycle of poverty and violence in the inner-cities will never change. Can you tell me any policy differences between Lori Lightfoot and Brandon Johnson. Of course not because there are none. They both are invested in maintaining the status quo. There is money and power in keeping urban blacks poor, angry and dependent on the government.

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You are tragically misinformed. Here are actual facts: climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus

Yes for money making for the worker and the people who invest in green energy make a little more for taking the risk. That is how it used to be but now we have greedy fossil fuel executives arent' satisfied with just billions, they and there cronies in health industry, big agri et al want it all at the workers expense

Fraud temperature representations. Since the 1990s NASA and NOAA over the years manipulated temperature data cooling the past and warming the present.

In the countries which have poured money into the boondoggle solar and wind the workers are the ones paying with increasing electricity rates.

@@georgelet4132 Do yourself a favor and learn more about why earlier data was updated (maybe not from denier websites? Just saying).

That's not quite right, unless you mean back when the republican primary was on and Clinton's goons made sure their friendly media would elevate Trump on the delusional belief that it would help her win while doing nothing and offering absolutely nothing to the voters.

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