There was and is no benefit to slavery. Slavery is an abomination. A violent inhumane brutality of one group upon another.
The myth that the poor slave girl falls into the arms of the slave master is a fantastical farce used to hide rape, molestation and mutilation. The malicious intend to change history for the benefit of a political win from a bigoted hateful populist whose lies and venom serves no purpose but to undermine and gaslight a race and a culture that help build this country in every way, shape, and form.
Let’s us be mindful that If not for Jewish activists after the holocaust atrocities that occurred in Dachau, Auschwitz’s and the many murder camps across Germany before, at the start of and during WWII, would have disappeared. We would believe these atrocities never happened. We would believe that the murder millions and millions of men, women, and children never happened. Today, in this very moment we know it did. No matter what deniers say. For we have written history, film, books, personal stories, and Museums that have archived these facts. (See #UnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMusuem).
In August of 2023 Viola Ford Fletcher the oldest survivor of the #TulsaMassacre memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” was released. In DeSantis Florida or even Tulsa, Mama Fletcher’s book may be banned. Why? Because this book is an account of what she (Fletcher) witnessed at the age of seven and that may be too much for some who call themselves Liberty mothers. However her story be lost to history, if not for historians, sociologists, archaeologists, anthropologists will continue to tell the stories, and the ancestors of those who blood seeps through the very ground they were butchered on cry’s for those stories to be told.
So as our Civil Rights fighters grow into their winter years and fade into history. Their stories will continue be told. From names you know like John Lewis, to names you don’t like Janice Wesley Kelsey who as a young girl in Birmingham, Alabama marching for the rights of black children was hosed with water and detained on the orders of the beast Bull Connor.
We shall and will remember, from the SmithsonianNationalMuseumofAfricanAmericanHistoryandCulture, TheLegacyMuseum or (Lynching Museum) and numerous Civil Rights Museums from Birmingham to Detroit, from Memphis to Savannah.
History is here for the Learning. History is here for the Yearning. Please-don’t let them bury our stories.
Please visit the following for more historical facts:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (www.ushmm.org)
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Tulsa Historical Society & Museum (tulsahistory.org)
National Museum of African American History and Culture-Smithsonian Institute (nmaahc.si.edu)
The Legacy Museum - The Legacy Sites (eji.org)
CellyBlue-I Do Know This!
CellyBlue -- I do know this! -- Your mention of the horrific massacre and massive arson of 1921 in Tulsa is very important.
The State of Oklahoma and the City of Tulsa each had projects:
About 2001, a Commission of the State Legislature, assigned to the project in 1997, produced a circa 200-page report of the 1921 massive massacre of a highly professional and cultural area of Tulsa:
https://digitalcollections.tulsalibrary.org/digital/collection/p15020coll6/id/667/
To buy a copy:
https://digitalcollections.tulsalibrary.org/digital/collection/p15020coll6/id/667/
https://www.cityoftulsa.org/1921graves
The area of Tulsa was known as a little Wall-Street for its professional community.
And you point out that the Holocaust Museum and similar institutions do an important work in making sure we do not forget.
The programs in Florida, beyond absurd, are actually dangerous in breeding ignorance and forgetfulness.
Ron DeSantis is Harvard educated and knows better, which makes me question why such persons promote a neo-fascist agenda.
It was well-known that already in the 1920s, Hitler was encouraged that outrage over the Turk killing of over 1.2 million Armenians in WWI had been largely forgotten. That forgetfulness emboldened the crazed Nazi-Leader to formulate the "Endlösung" (Final Solution).
We MUST never forget.
Anyone who reads Frederick Douglass and other important witnesses will have NO DOUBT what the evil of slavery is.
It is frustrating that we have to defend so vocally today truths that are so well-established that everyone should accept them, like we accept the laws of gravity, or that the earth is round.
What you describe should be self-evident, and I am very upset that we have to engage the public at such an elementary base of truth to correct DELIBERATE DISTORTIONS FROM THE RIGHT.
Thank you, THANK YOU, for the valiant fight for TRUTH.
Thank you! One more time or the heartless and clueless Cretins in the cheap seats.