Fact is that regardless of what world governmental power ever existed before the making of America, Slavery has always been a common universal crime commanded by world power, when committed against any person. Fact. America determined that a Black of America was not a real person. Therefore America deliberately chose to ignore the crime and law of Slavery.
You name any world government power- Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persian, Greece, North Africa Rulers, Rome, yes even Rome, etc., and you will discover that is was a crime to commit Slavery anywhere. World government not being able to enforce the law of Slavery and the consequence of Slavery was no excuse for smaller governments established in their own places to practice Slavery.
Before America, France, Spain, Germany and many nearby governments ignored the consequences of Slavery.
Understanding that Slavery was a crime the Slavery rulers made Slavery of Blacks legal when Blacks were in the Slavers domain and then took deliberate steps to create Slavery across the seas as well as into all territory the Slavery government was able to dominate.
Although North Africa participated in slavery (the capture of White peoples and enslaving large groups of White peoples), North Africa too practiced opportunity to be FREE from slavery by actually freeing White captives.
However, no other government practiced Slavery worst during the time before Slavery's conception and the time of Slavery's launch than the U.S. Gov.
Before the U.S. Gov's inception of revolutionary war and after the U.S. revolutionary war there is no doubt that Slavery was meant to be a part of the U.S. Gov's Constitution, as so written in the U.S. Constitution, for the sole purpose for the continuation of its White peoples supremacy.
To this day, all candidates for the U.S. presidency state the importance of the U.S. constitution meanwhile fail to mention anything about the Legal Criminal name-called the United States and the crimes the U.S. government has always committed against Black Americans.
If you read Stu Bykofsky article about Slave owners William Penn and Benjamin Franklin please note this... Stu is a pretty honest and fair news writer. Fair. Honest. Stu as his own style of reporting. Slavery is a rough subject to discuss. Anyway...
Stu wrote: "If we can’t agree on this, then Penn and Franklin really must go." I know Stu! What I didn't know that Stu was still working. I really thought that Stu retired from news writing be it Op-Ed or investigative reporting. Stu is really good at what he does. That being said... Research, more research is the thing on this subject.
And Stu, you dropped the ball on this one. For example: Penn did owned slaves. But as a Quaker he also spent many years in jail before he came to the so-called New World. Penn spent years in jail because he was against Slavery. There is slavey and Slavery. Quakers believed that slavery was the same as being an indentured servant. An indentured servant had opportunities.
One very important opportunity for the servant was the chance to be FREE. Slaves had no opportunity not even to rather kill themselves than to be a White man's Slave. So, Stu, yes, you have your opinion. But I don't think that the other commentator about this headliner was telling you that you don't have the right to your own opinion. This is also under what's called Black Studies, Stu. The Quakers not only rejected Slavery here in the Americas as well as anywhere in the world, the Quakers following their leader Penn's ambitions and goals for Black Americans (Slaves) launched Reparations for Black Americans during Slavery. Money Reparations, Stu, not the nonsense reparations the most recent candidates are talking about.
However, to end my comment on the subject- a very good news article that you wrote Stu- Ben Franklin was a racist. You left out something else very important about Franklin.. Franklin was a White supremacist Also. I wrote the article about Franklin many, many times in my own newspaper called the Philadelphia Front Page News. Yes, everything Franklin should be taken down is the first feeling about him. But, because he waited until he was an old man to acknowledge that Black peoples are human beings and Franklin to a public stand to join the movement to end Slavery Franklin should be exposed to the present call for Reparations. Everything Franklin today has the money to pay out money to Black Americans here in Philly.
One other thing Stu, where you dropped the ball on the subject of Slavery. Michael Cord. Michael Cord doesn't represent the mass voices of Black Americans in Philly or countrywide. Michael Cord doesn't present to White peoples what Black peoples prefer.
Next time you want to do a real story on the subject of Slavery please why not call me or many other top Black Studies professionals as we work tirelessly day and night to help Black people, our peoples, eliminate miseducation about Slavery. You know that I have been writing for over 30 years.
I want to thank you personally for all you have done in Philly and for our Philly people. Slavery is a very sensitive subject. And hidden racist and White supremacist are being exposed more so today than in a long while.
