Post by Justbec on Feb 17, 2023 13:01:47 GMT -5
First, They Came for the Confederates….
By William Sullivan
On Disney’s latest ultra-woke reboot “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder”, the characters immediately roll into a litany of damnable lies about the history of this country.
Intended for an audience of children, the first diatribe declares:
Slaves built this country and we the descendants of slaves have earned reparations for their suffering and continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in a systemic prejudice, racism and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for [sic].
Simple historical context and logic easily disprove that initial claim, of course. Slaves certainly didn’t “build this country”— America was nothing resembling the economic juggernaut that it would later become when slavery was summarily abolished in 1865, and one could hardly suggest with any seriousness that the agrarian part of the country where slaves existed was the most substantial driver of America’s eventual economic and industrial might.
Furthermore, if the Founders were truly enthusiastic about exploiting slave labor as a profitable means of “building” their fledgling nation, their first actions might have been to proliferate the practice rather than legislating its limitations. For example, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which created the legal structure for the eventual states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, included an absolute prohibition of slavery in the new territories —“and there was no objection, north or south,” Robert Selph Henry writes in The Story of the Confederacy. In fact, the very first Congress after the ratification of the Constitution included a provision allowing for federal enforcement of the Ordinance — the law passed without objection and was signed by our Virginian president, George Washington.
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By William Sullivan
On Disney’s latest ultra-woke reboot “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder”, the characters immediately roll into a litany of damnable lies about the history of this country.
Intended for an audience of children, the first diatribe declares:
Slaves built this country and we the descendants of slaves have earned reparations for their suffering and continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in a systemic prejudice, racism and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for [sic].
Simple historical context and logic easily disprove that initial claim, of course. Slaves certainly didn’t “build this country”— America was nothing resembling the economic juggernaut that it would later become when slavery was summarily abolished in 1865, and one could hardly suggest with any seriousness that the agrarian part of the country where slaves existed was the most substantial driver of America’s eventual economic and industrial might.
Furthermore, if the Founders were truly enthusiastic about exploiting slave labor as a profitable means of “building” their fledgling nation, their first actions might have been to proliferate the practice rather than legislating its limitations. For example, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which created the legal structure for the eventual states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, included an absolute prohibition of slavery in the new territories —“and there was no objection, north or south,” Robert Selph Henry writes in The Story of the Confederacy. In fact, the very first Congress after the ratification of the Constitution included a provision allowing for federal enforcement of the Ordinance — the law passed without objection and was signed by our Virginian president, George Washington.
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