Johan Pelck Olsen
The Whore of BlahbylonCan't argue with this.
⁰FisherTX14@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
That's the part they don't want taught. That fortunes were built on slavery that endure in a prolific manner today. It's fairly easy to have a profitable business with slave labor.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon At my school it was taught as the history of one of the local industries (Bristol was a major player in the triangle trade).
PJ "Vote Green" Coffey@mekkaokereke did his best but #BlackHistoryMonth was very much about white history. Very informative!
Tigerfort@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
The history of colonialism (and oppression more generally) is so often taught/discussed as bad things that "happened" to people, rather than recognising that they were done by people, to other people.
Usually in the passive voice, until a heroic white guy comes along to be given (active voice) credit for sav(iour)ing everyone.
The history of colonialism (and oppression more generally) is so often taught/discussed as bad things that "happened" to people, rather than recognising that they were done by people, to other people.
Usually in the passive voice, until a heroic white guy comes along to be given (active voice) credit for sav(iour)ing everyone.
Dominic Cronin@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon It's neither. It's the history of the human race. Many white people have no traceable family that were slavers, or slaves for that matter. The same is true of many black people. Modern America has concentrations of people very much closer to slavery, and it still has a huge influence on their culture.
Wayne@dominiccronin @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Dominic, quick question. You're not British are you?
@dominiccronin @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I cannot honestly remember why I asked.
Irene@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon And the history of those black people have been ignored for centuries of not millenniums.
Jon 404@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Damn. Truth.
Martin Vermeer FCD@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon The For Whom the Bell Tolls fallacy.
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The interesting part is that they are neither portrayed as slave owners but also not as slaves.
As to be portrayed as slaves to the the ottoman empire, for example, would show weakness.
Lassielmr@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon sadly it is more complex than that. White on white, black on black, white on black slavery existed since man existed. Many slave owners and slave traders in West Africa were black. The first plantation slaves to the British West Indies were white - typically Scots - send there by the ruling classes. Modern day slavery is still prevalent across the African Continent, but per capita India has more slaves today than elsewhere.
Karl@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon wow that is so poignant
Stellarator 🏳️🌈🌮@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Oh. Wow. That is a really good way of framing it.
Oh. Wow. That is a really good way of framing it.
Cyberspice@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon @jenf Which is wrong when white people often kept other white people as slaves too (Vikings, etc)
ex or current IDF unwelcome@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Go to a bookshop and find books on white slavery and I don't mean the modern idea of sold for sex.
Grandpa DonI attended segregated jr high and high school in the South and most definitely learned that there was slavery, followed by jim crow and kkk. We read Uncle Tom's Cabin and Huck Finn, both focused on people escaping slavery, discussed sympathetically why they wanted to escape. Learned that slave ships had appalling conditions and high death rates. No doubt it was softened, but I would not say whitewashed as these bastards seek to do now.
Aviva Gary@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon true (unless we are talking globally, the framing changes but it gets more complicated as it should be approximated by history about who did the bad thing vs those who suffered the bad thing etc)
katie@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon As a teacher in high school, I can't figure out why my students of color are responsible for all the events during black history month.... it feels like we're giving POC more work to have to show why they're worthy of kindness. It's NUTS!
chef 😎@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon There is a lot of truth in that. ☝️
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B @TweetsByBilal
One of the problems is that slavery is taught as the history of Black people and not the history of white people.
Miakoda 
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon It also came across (in class) as something that happened to black people, as opposed to something DONE TO THEM.