The following is from my vault. It is a syndicated column written 4/6/04:
“Taking a stand for what is right has put me at odds with the civil-rights establishment. I have endured all kinds of name-calling and intimidation tactics … But I understand that I am fighting against evil. Those names mean nothing to me. They are the pitiful words of cowards who do not have right on their side. By letting them pass, I am able to continue standing up for what is right … It is now time for white Americans to realize they are part of the same battle.”
One of the first series of questions I am most often asked is: “Where are you from? Where did you grow up? Where were you raised?” As if my answering those questions will somehow answer the unasked question – that being, “How can you, a black man, think the way you do?”
And just how do I think?
I think a man deserves what he earns. I think and believe that while the field of opportunity is level (contrary to popular myth), not all will achieve the same.
I think that the hate-filled cretin from Rhode Island who wrote me spewing bile and venom is a racist who happens to be white. And I’m certain he is not the only one. But I am also aware that there are Louis Farrakhans and Cynthia McKinney’s.
I think slavery was wrong and immoral, but it was not illegal. I agree in principle with Robert E. Lee, who in a letter to his wife Mary Custis Lee, called slavery “a moral and political evil,” while concluding that black slaves were immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially and physically. Except, I believe it was God Himself providing for a people who would later curse His name and praise the false god of the very people who originally enslaved them.
I think the reparationists must be challenged to acknowledge the truth – that being “that … free blacks disproportionately became slave masters” right here in America (“Dixie’s censored subject – black slaveowners” by Robert M. Grooms).
Antoinette Harrell-Miller, a claimant in the multi-billion dollar action against Lloyd’s of London is quoted as saying, “Like every other ethnic group living in America, I have a right to know who I am.” Not to be rude or deliberately acerbic, but I would say, “She is Antoinette Miller, a race huckster and profiteer.” But I digress.
I find it interesting that these hate-filled extortionists claim “Lloyd’s of London and others must repair the damage they caused.” Interesting because they leave out African and Muslim accountability. They omit the truth of black participation in the Civil War. Scott K. Williams in his “Black Confederates Fact Page” writes that 65,000 plus Southern blacks fought in the Confederate ranks. He also writes that they were compensated for their efforts in land and money, some blacks earning more than officers.
I challenge these necrophagous ghouls who seek to make gain through immiseration to tell the truth. How many Americans are aware that in New Orleans over 3,000 freed slaves owned slaves? The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves.
How many are aware successful businessman and cotton farmer William Ellison derived a major source of his income from being a “slave breeder” – a practice that was looked down upon throughout the South? Yet Ellison, a successful black businessman and slaveowner, secretly practiced it.
It would seem reasonable that if the reparation harlots were interested in truth, they would have these facts available as part of their suit. It is easy to bastardize and label as evil whites. But where is the vilification of the thousands of blacks who also practiced slavery?
The liberal media is quick to point to race-baiters as leaders in the black community. Therein I believe lies a major part of the problem: The black community is not a community unto itself, it is part of America.
Blacks do not need leaders defined by the media. They have them. At present they are President Bush and his administration. They have 535 total representatives being divided as prescribed state by state as do we all. They have governors and lobbyists, as do we all.
I think it is time for Americans who happen to be black to divest themselves of the “African hyphen American” foolishness. In truth, blacks today are no more African than I am mezzo-soprano. Teresa Heinz-Kerry is more authentic African-American than Jesse Jackson, she having been born in Mozambique.
I’ll take the petty name-calling, because I am right. And it will only be when all of America realizes the truth of this that we will truly have a “United” States.
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Well I did research black slavery by both whites and blacks. And it is the way you wrote about it Mychal. Mulattos and family members were by far fewer black slave owners. I’ve come to the conclusion that what is taught today in our schools has a socialist agenda, to anger the black population. The jews remember the holocaust in Europe. In America, I don’t know of millions of blacks being exterminated in a few short years by the whites. I do know of millions of black babies being aborted by black women.
Charlene: with your attempt to flaunt your profound knowledge, I find it so amusing that you are obviously unaware that Lyndon B Johnson strongly disliked negroes, and was known to frequently describe them in many unflattering terms. His favorite term being “uppity niggers”… While it is true that he signed the civil rights act – it was only because Kennedy has been assassinated and Johnson had take over presidential duties. Johnson was opposed to the civil rights act and after he signed it,one of his comments was “…this will keep niggers voting for us {democrats} for the next 200 years…” (Does that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling?) Truly intelligent people can see through “affirmative action” – it was designed specifically to keep minorities down and dependent on entitlements and “special treatment”. Psychologically, affirmative action promotes a sense of one being “less than” others. Do you really not realize this?
Mmmhmm…Patsy, I’m not sure I agree with you. Providence uses whom he will. He used Pharoah to free the Hebrews, He used Lincoln to free the slaves; and it is a well-know fact that Lincoln despised blacks, then He used Johnson to sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In all of these cases none of those who did the “freeing” if you will liked those that they freed. However, I’m sure all of those ‘emancipated’ by these individuals were ecstatic about it. If I’m not mistake, there’s a scripture in the Bible that talks about God using your enemies to bless you.
melania: I agree w/ part of what you articulate…but I have mixed thoughts on the civil rights act and johnson…
patsy bocook: like I said elsewhere on here I had issues w/ the civil rights act…
Ephesians 6:11-17 – this is you Mychal.
dlb: it is to be all who believe my friend…
I am a Hebrew American. This man has stood as a Black Man and showed that he has risen above. Not because he is better but because he has used his abilities as a Human Being to better himself. He is correct in so many ways from Sunday. He is correct in the times that he has said if only some of these cretians would take the time to look these things up, but again he is correct to state that they will only look to support their claim. He has seen and I have been a witness to people who have an agenda and remain as stubborn as a mule.
I called myself a Hebrew and I am able to prove this. However, if people read a book, they would find that the Hebrew people were slaves for over four hundred years to the Egyptians who were a dark skined race of people.
I aplaud Mychal for rising above the retoric and the negativity. History has a lot of moments that are not nice and clean or polite dinner topics.
I will guarantee that if any one of the races of people were to stand together to be tested to see if their blood is red and has white platelets, red platelets and has plasma. I have fought side by side with some of the best and seen that we bleed the same color. I will say also that one only has to look in a dictionary to find the definition of nigger. I will say till my dieing breath that Mychal does not fit that name tag. Those are as Mychal says are evil.
The major problem with the little h human race is that if they don’t understand something they hate it. Whereas the big H Human race is able to rise above and shake hands in true brotherhood and rise above the nay saying.
Mychal, keep up the good work, you are a Human Being.
dale: while I am sure your comments intended no insult (and none was taken)…I think your thoughts would be better served voiced a bit differently…just my opinion…
Americans who are decedent’s of slaves continue to see themselves as victimsand hold onto the past fiercely. There are so many other groups enslaved and for longer who have moved on. They could not profit from it.
The slavery in the United States and Islands had one advantage for the decedents.That latest slavery has been memorialized in history and writing in such a way that it seems alive. Time moves at an exponential rate. Twenty years ago is long these day. Even our morals and Language changes so quickly, you dig? Groovy. Maybe descendants of slaves are just so afraid that slavery will come back. they cannot let go of the fear and are enslaved again. So sad.
Do you think it’s sad when Jewish people continually speak about the Jewish Holocaust? Personally, I think they should as they say ‘Never Forget.’ Some anti-semites would argue that Jews are playing the victim. It seems it’s only wrong when blacks don’t want to forget their history. There is a move to “X” black people out of the annals of history-in my opinion. I love people of all races and I don’t ask them to forget their history. Whites in particular want it forgotten because they don’t want to remember the evil they that their ancestors upheld, not just toward blacks, but native americans, jews, filipinos, the japanese, etc. I don’t blame anyone white for blacks who now choose not to get an education, I don’t blame them for some black women who choose-yes, choose-to have 4, 5, and 6 babies so they can continue to get a welfare check and in the process help make their children a statistic. This probably angers me more than anything. All I’m saying is that I don’t like it when people try to white-wash the past. Tell the truth, that’s all I’m asking.
charlene ivory: there is a big difference between having your families, friends, and neighbors taken to gas chambers, furnaces, and death camps…africans were viewed as valuable property…much more valuable than the irish slaves…I am beginning to formulate the opinion that you are standing waist deep in horse manure trying to keep your feet clean…
I don’t see the benefit for anyone living in the past. Are you saying that only minorities have been mistreated? I think over our whole history on earth, many different races have been mistreated – including whites. Christians were fed to lions at one time. I think people need to know history, learn the lessons from histoy and don’t repeat them. Forgiveness is from God and people are supposed to forgive and move on for a good reason – it benefits their own well being.
d: tragically ignorant would be the words I employ…
mychal,
you are vilified because the black MO in this country is to blame the white man, so many blacks can’t stand it when one of theirs actually tries to make themselves better. this is such a curious paradigm to me, because making excuses for people just creates that, more excuses. it does not create prosperity, philanthropy, and or anything positive. but, guys like al sharpton, whom i actually think has a great sense of humour, is unkwowingly helping blacks perpetuate the lie to their brothers. obama is banking on that thought process, that they are victims. keep on thinkin that, my brothers, and you will continue to fail.
dan bulshansi: sharpton knows full well what he is doing…pursuant to the “one of theirs” comment…if we are americans…everyone is one of ours…that is what we must strive for…the only thing race based assignations does is divide and allow those who you race as currency… to prosper…
Wow Mychal, as usual, your articles knocks the socks off my feet! Because you write with historical and current facts and great descriptive words, I can feel anger, compassion, laughter, enlightenment, shock, etc. May God continually protect you and yours as you raise your voice for America and all of us who love reading your articles.
As always you do your best to defend the evil that white america inflicted on blacks. Why don’t you tell your followers the truth-most of these ‘blacks’ were really mulattos who inherited plantations from their white fathers. There were other blacks who owned slaves and were called benevolent slave owners. Often times they would free the slaves after purchasing them as many were relatives. Mulattos are not black. They may have been called black by some according to the ‘one drop ‘ rule-but if you’re going to report something be truthful about it. Many of these mulattos passed for white and did not associate with the black slaves. Many were concentrated in Louisiana and South Carolina. Just like mixed-raced people don’t like being called black today-they liked it even less during slavery times. You’re reprehensible in so many ways,Massie.
He does not tell that because it would be a lie. What Mychal Massie says is fact, it is available even to cretins such as yourself to find, but you won’t find it unless you want to, because it takes looking. Cassius Clay, at the time of his drafting, and his proclamation of “consciencious objector status” claimed and accepted on the basis of “I’m not going to some foreign Nation to fight a White man’s war” got him out of the draft, yet also took his heavyweight title from him, yet he stood and stated himself, he was far better off the descendent of slaves, and living in America, than he would have been had his ancestors remained, and he had grown up in the jungles.
Those who cannot look at where they are, and disregard how they got there to have an honest appreciation for the moment are ignorant, and easily led, and can very easily lose the very advantage they have, by chosing hate over dealing with now, and “today, as it is”.
Those who proclaim most loudly against White Man, refuse to acknowledge that at the same time Whites began to buy slaves from North Africans, and Muslims, 97% of all Whites were serfs, belonging to the land claimed by tyrants, and not even being the property of people, but of dirt. I am most reminded of Jesus’ statement about looking at the mote in one’s neighbor’s eye while ignoring the beam in one’s own.
If you can speak the truth, tell the world how the statement Mychal quotes from Robert E. Lee, is factually incorrect, and explain how Mychal’s own view, that it was indeed a work of God, moving people out of Africa, and into the world, and providing a chance to be more than a simple, jungle living person, living hand to mouth for a very short lifespan. Don’t even bother trying to deny Mychal’s factual statements about Black slave ownership, fighting on both sides of both the civil war and our war of Independence, which was in fact where many of the freed Blacks got their freedom, and began the practice of owning their own slaves. Slavery is an act of man, and it connects to no one tribe or group alone, but to all. There is good cause to put the weight of this mantle on the shoulders of the Muslims of North Africa to a large degree, because they were the primary providers of slaves then and now, today.
To be right, one must be educated, and that occurs only when a person chooses that as their own goal. You obviously have chosen to be indoctrinated, as it doesn’t take up any of your precious time, researching facts to find truth.
Sincerely,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC,ret.
Vanceboro, NC
The first African to be “legally documented” as a slave for life was John Punch, who was an indentured servant to Hugh Gweyn. Punch ran away from his white master and in 1640 was sentenced to life as a slave. His punishment was considered harsher than those of white indentured servants who escaped. John Casor was not legally sentenced a slave for life until 1654, which debunks the argument that a black man was the first in the English colonies to “legally” own a slave. Slaves were in the Americas as early as the 1500′s if you’ll take the time to educate yourself. They were brought here by the European Spaniards. Remember Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492. Anthony Johnson was brought from Angola as an indentured servant himself, so he was in servitude to someone first and they weren’t black. I do not deny Africa’s part in African slaves being brought to the Americas, however, that didn’t give white, fake christians the right to enslave blacks, rape, murder, and lynch blacks, and deny them their citizenship for centuries. The San Miguel de Guadalupe colony founded by Spanish explorer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon had the first African slaves-this is where the first slave rebellion was recorded and they fled the colony seeking protection from the Native Americans. You can take the time that you’ve suggested for me to take and get your own facts straight. I’ve never posted without researching my facts. Do I not know that my life is better here than if I were in Africa? Of course I know this better than you do! And as far as education goes, I’m probably better educated than you are! I’m not a Muhammad Ali fan-so interjecting what he said about anything means zilch to me. You’re the one whose being led by a blind, self-hating black,and you’ve both fallen into the ditch-portraying the past as you want it to be-instead of how it really was! You’re just another denier of the Black Holocaust initiated by racist whites and you have that pandering idiot named Mychal Massie to co-sign on all the mistruths white america has perpetuated since the beginning of slavery in the Americas.
charlene ivory: yhou should have half the education and experience John has…your ignorance is rift…you attempt to spk down to a man you could but hope to aspire to emulate…but you are to blinded by hate to glean that…
john mcclain: this woman is a mole…she is here to disrupt…she tried to mask it but as usual she was unable to do it for long…she tried to impress us by wheeling history that I’ve been writing probably before she was born…she is typical I’m angry so you have to be angry and if you’re not you’re sell out or house negro…I had to laugh when she proclaimed herself to have more education than you…
charlene ivory: here is my suggestion…get over it…white people haven’t done a thing to you except pave the way for your free education and an affirmative action job…and spkg as one who is actually familiar w/ the nixon admin I curse the day he came up w/ race based affirmative action…you are only partially right pursuant to your reference to the mulattos in louisiana…but there again you wouldn’t know that…you wouldn’t know that it was blacks and socialists who changed the truth of history so as to cover the truth about blacks who owned slaves…it must be really tough being the as smart and informed as you are…sarcasm intended…
how do these past events affect you, today? How have you been hurt? or helped? My ancestors where burned alive in Europe for having red hair. I am afraid of fire, but I think red hair has become popular, No?
d: point made…but don’t forget that many irish were brought to america as slaves…
wendy: thk you much…
Of course slavery is awful. But, as long as folks keep looking at the past, they`re never going to make much real progress. Just as an aside,I wonder if Ms. Miller ever gave any thought to the fact that, had her ancestors not been brought over here, she wouldn`t even be around to “find” herself. I wonder if the day will ever come when we can all drop the hyphens and just be Americans. If not, we are sunk.
Why should we drop the hypens? If it weren’t for racism(from all races)everyone could proudly claim to be what God made them to be. No one should drop hyphens to appease a few of the naysayers. I love seeing white men and women of Swiss, German, Polish, Italian, English, Dutch,etc. descent just like I love the Japanese, Filipinos, Chinese,and Koreans. I love my African/African-American brothers and sisters, Jamaicans, Haitians, Bahamians,etc. I love Brazilians, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Panamanians, Dominicans. Without these wonderful cultures, we wouldn’t have german potato salad, pizza, polish sausages, sushi, jerk chicken, arroz con pollo, kwanza, etc.
No thankyou. I decline anyone’s offer to live in a color-blind, un-hyphenated society. I love everyone’s culture. From one drop of blood God made all the nations of the earth. God loves diversity, that’s why he made all of the different nationalities with their unique languages and customs and He makes no mistakes. The mistake rests with humans, who always screw up everything with their flawed opinions on how the world should be.
charlene ivory: the hyphen should be dropped because it is used to divide…as you have proven many times over…teresa heinz kerry is more african than you are…at least she was born there…I amazed that someone as smart as you are trying to have us believe you are…would know this…then again lenin may be your idol…in which case what was spawned in 1915 would be worth celebrating to you…
jim: that is exactly the way Booker T. Washington saw it…as he thanked the God of providence for bringing africans here…
Mychal, As always thank you again for being for what’s right. It’s not the color of your skin, it’s whats in your heart. We all have the same blood and our hearts are made just alike. We went to the Glen Beck Restore Love program in Dallas a couple of weeks ago and Mr Beck read a note from Abe Lincoln’s dairy. He was concerned even before being President about the slavery problem. He quoted that if you were lighter than the next person would that make you superior. If so then the lightest person would rule. There is always going to be a lighter person than you are and you are always going to be lighter than someone else. God must really be amased at what his people are doing down here. May God bless you and your work. Your race should be extremely proud of you for standing up for what is right. I was born white and many times I have been ashame of some white folks that are just like some blacks that can seem to live together. I bet Heaven is not waiting for those who can’t seem to get it right. Thanks again Mychal. fay Miller
fay miller: my race is the human race…my people are americans…
I’ve just forwarded this to a black fellow who constantly belittles me and calls me names because I think Obama is the worst president we’ve ever had. Perhaps he’ll believe Mr. Massie but most likely not. Everything comes down to race with him… He can’t see that if the country goes down we ALL sink with it.
Now, that’s tolerance for you!
d: tolerance spelled i-g-n-o-r-a-n-c-e…
jake: my guess is that he would rather believe you than me…
Revisionist history is just about all that is practiced today Mychal. Those that wish to “fundamentally change” this once great nation of ours into some sort of twisted, faux-utopia don’t have a chance of doing so should truth be told. God bless you my friend, Alan.
alan: you have spoken well my friend…
Thank you! I also feel the hyphenated designation needs to be dropped. I was really upset when Gabby won the gold, and the commentators said she was the first African-American woman to win gold in gymnastics. She is no more African than I am. She is an American who happens to be black.
linda goossen: well said and agreed…
Mychal:
I read your rants regularly. I read history often. I read David Barton’s American History in Black and White last year. The real history of our two party system isn’t one the Democrats want clearly and accurately told. Since around 1820, slavery, while legal, was the basis of horrendous acts of violence and enslavement of blacks by mostly Democrats and fought against by Republicans. After the murder of Lincoln in 1865 things really got ugly. Your use of immiseration is precise. Excellent, accurate and bold statements. You, sir, are a fine American, indeed!
Make an effort to report factual information before posting. Modern day Democrats need not hold their heads down in shame because of the racism and bigotry that white Southern Democrats perpetuated in the south. Yes, the Republican party was known as the ‘anti-slavery’ party after 1865. However, the white democratic south was an anti-black, jim-crow loving, lynch-craving party. The white racists of the south from Strom Thurmond on down switched to the Republican party in 1964 after northern democrats (Yes, northern, not southern)pushed for Civil Rights legislation. This is when the racist, white south switched parties, after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Solid South was no longer solid. They were upset that northern democrats were destroying their way of life. Some in the Presidential election voted for Nixon and some for Barry Goldwater-both states righters, which the south loved-the right to continue to keep every black living as second class citizens! The racist, democratic south switched parties in 1964 because the democratic party was now viewed by many southern whites as the ‘pro-black’ party. My grandfather told me parts of the south cheered when Kennedy was assassinated! Study Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’-his attempt to draw all the former racist democrats to the Republican party-and he succeeded! From the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ’til now most of the former confederate slave states vote as Republicans. If you’ll do your research,you’ll find that prior to 1964 anytime any democratic president pushed for civil rights for Afro-Americans, the white south would vote against that president in the next presidential election. Yes, the Republican party was known as a ‘pro-black’ party prior to 1964, but not after. Many southern democrats abandoned the republican party after 1964, and no self-respecting black, especially those raised in the South, will join the Republican party because of the history of the Republican party as it relates to the South. Who wants to rub elbows with the former oppressors of your parents and grandparents? Not saying that all Republicans are like this, but those who hail from the south are-I work with them. They adamantly oppose affirmative action-but they have their jim-crow loving parents/grandparents to thank for this. If it had not been for their blatant refusal to adhere to and enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, there would never have been a need for the Civil Rights Movement or affirmative action.
I meant to say ‘many southern democrats abandoned the DEMOCRATIC party after 1964.
I actually saw the head of the Democratic,(Southern) party address that on Meet the Press(or a similar program) They had lost big in the national elections and the Man, (dont remember name) said they would change there position to keep winning elections.
cahrlene ivory: that is your ignorance…I wondered how long it would take for you to wheel out that specious bromide…
Charlene, I am so happy that you know exactly how us southern racist republicans think and act. Your ignorance astounds. I am from the south, Alabama to be exact, and find your opinion disgustingly broad and wrong, but you have the ones that taught you to thank for that, right. You mention affirmative action as one of the things that we racists are against, do you know why? In and of itself affirmative action is discriminatory and racist. Think about it for just one second. It simple implies that black people are inferior to whites in every way by telling them that we know they cannot achieve without advantage. Affirmative action has caused more racial problems than it could ever have helped. Giving something of value to a person simply because of their race is STUPID. It has led to the major problems we face today of the entitlement society. The real solution to the inequalities faced by blacks is to give them what would truly be helpful, respect as fellow human beings. Don’t continue to expect less of someone because of their race or heritage.
A-men Johnny!
To ‘take’ something of value namely freedom,equal protection under the law,the right to vote, the right to go to desegregated schools, etc. because of their race is STUPID! Which is what the white racist south did systematically, by instituting Black Codes, the birth of the KKK and Jim Crow laws. Which is why affirmative action was needed. The white south had proven for centuries they were incapable of doing the RIGHT thing by blacks, only the WHITE thing. Equality had been a right for blacks only on paper and as a theory, as Pres.Johnson said, affirmative action would make equality a fact and a result! I know well the history of racist Alabama. I know about ‘Bloody Sunday’, George Wallace blocking two blacks from entering the University of Alabama, and the 9 black boys being accused of raping a white woman with little evidence, and more. Yes, Alabama has raised some hell on this earth! If my opinion is disgustingly broad and ignorant to you, you have the white history books I used in my US History and Political Science classes at my predominantly white college to thank.
charlene ivory: you have conveniently omitted that blacks have been milking that experience both criminally vis-a-vis race based preferential treatment since that time…that said you also conveniently omit the fact that whites worked shoulder to shoulder w/ Booker T. Washington at the height of southern bigotry…and you also reveal yourself for what you are when you hurl racial epithets such “your white history books”…you are a mole trying to be clever…your problem is that on this site people aren’t intimidated and they are bullied…your attempt at stealth bigotry under the guise of erudition doesn’t play here…
johnny smith: well said…but the real solution would be to get over self and inculcated segregation…too many are more interested in being black than taking advantage of the same opportunities that everyone else has…
charlene ivory: do you really believe you are that intellectually superior to those of us on this page blog…or is that you are feel so inferior that you are attempting to puff up your plumage to look more attractive to yourself in the mirror…
jimtex: Dave Barton is great historian…
My word! I knew that Africans has sold their own into slavery in many cases, but I had never heard that freed blacks here had owned slaves, themselves. I’m astounded!
the first actual slave owner in USA was black, his indentured servant became a slave.
Anthony Johson is the “owner” and John Casor was the slave.
Anthony Johnson came here to America as an indentured servant. After he was released from his servitude, he also acquired an indentured servant by the name of John Casor, but refused to release him from servitude after his seven years was up. He took the case to court, and the court found in Johnson’s favor, after John Casor ran away,and the court made Casor a slave for life-this was 1654. Johnson was not the first slave owner in America.John Casor was the first slave to be “legally” recognized as a slave in the state of Virginia. Hugh Gweyn, who was white, had an indentured servant who ran away and the court made him a slave for life, the slave’s name was John Punch-this was 1640-fourteen years before Anthony Johnson and John Casor. Plus indentured Africans/enslaved Africans were here as early as the 1500′s when Spain brought them over.
charlene ivory: I’ve written and referenced anthony johnson many times in the last umpteen yrs…spain was actually more responsible for introducing the natives form the islands here…
dmacleo: not exactly but it can be argued that he could be referenced tangentially as the father of slavery…
kate a: the lie that is told to cover this is that blacks bought other blacks out of slavery to free them…while there is evidence of same…the ignored fact is that blacks were actual slave owners…as I noted in this article…
Great & profound piece you wrote in 2004.
It is little discussed that African people who became slaves were captured by native Africans of other tribes who raided villages & then sold their captives to the slave traders. The practice of Africans enslaved by other Africans was practiced in Africa long before Africans were brought to Americaj to be slaves.
Rarely do we discuss the practice of permanent indentured servitude, the equivalent of slavery, that is practiced by nationalities/races on their own people.
Slavery is not just a problem for blacks but for all races.
norlyn: the slave traders were muslims…so in a perverse way farrakhan is right when he says islam is the true religion of blacks…sarcasm intended…
Thank you, Mychal. I’m glad you brought the slavery information into focus. I could make comments on today’s black slavery and human trafficking in Obama’s background but that will be for another time.
marilyn: you are very welcome…
Very thought provoking as well as prophetic! In regards to your comment about Theresa Heinz Kerry being more qualified than Jesse Jackson to be called an African American, I have often asked this question of my black co-workers: “If someone who was born and raised in Africa happens to be white and they move to America, does that make them African American?” To which I more often than not was met with a blank stare as if I had just dropped in from another planet! After all, those born in other countries who now live in America are called Asian-American or Mexican-American, etc., irregardless of the color of their skin.
If more individuals like yourself continue to tell (as Paul Harvey liked to say) ‘the rest of the story, there is still hope for our great nation. Keep thinking outside the box Mychal and God bless!!
fullcirclethinker: what can they offer apart from a blank stare…
Anyone with a mind that is operating at even two percent efficiency knows by now that left wing Marxist communist liberals never ever allow themselves to be confused or distracted by facts and truth. We know they will continue to lie, distort and misinform anyone who will listen to them. You wrote this in 2004 and last night I was going through some of my past writings and came across a piece I wrote in 1995 a month or so after the OKC bombing, about what the clintons were trying to do to our country. If you recall he once proclaimed himself as the first black president but that bit of pandering didn’t carry very far because he wasn’t black. His shameless attempts to exploit the OKC bombing as justification for his call for more gun controls brought me back to the present. As I read more of my article I was struck by so many parallels and similarities to where we are now. Change some of the operative names and the agenda is the same: Turn America into a third world socialist controlled dictatorship that used to be a great nation. One difference is how effectively the current regime has been able to play the “divide them along racial or ethnic, economic, and religious fault lines and we will bring them down.” part of the communist plan to conquer us. Another difference is that more traitorous power seekers have infiltrated the congress, senate, judicial, the press, and alphabet bureaucracies than there were back then. Too many that were in office back then are still there today passing more laws, raising taxes, inventing new ones, calling for more government controls and in general keeping the screwed up status quo while telling the sheep it is for their own good and promising to fix everything when they are re-elected. If the people don’t wake up to sweep them all out with the rest of the trash so we can start with a clean slate, liberty will go down the tube.
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! Meaningful comment on a “bulls eye” Massie Post!
sandra: hahaha…
wakinyan: your first sentence says all that needs be said…
You know what image just came to my mind? Obama whispering to Russian President Medvedev that once he gets past the November presidential election, he’ll “have more flexibility” to meet the terms of Russian oligarch Vladimir Putin on the U.S. missile defense system based in Eastern Europe. I have always wondered which country he is loyal to…
dlb: excellent point…
Mychal,
You are so right. I happen to live in Georgia and, I swear, Cynthia McKinney was one of the WORST racists I have ever seen in my life. I am proud that you, as a BLACK man, think CLEARLY! I wish more people had your insight into the troubles in this country today, including the white population. When people come together as one to fight the good fight against the evil being done to us, perhaps there will no longer be any hatred between the races. I forward your column to everyone on my list – I just hope they have enough sense to read it!
andr: and yet mckinney got 60 percent of the white vote to get elected…and yet she is quick to attack whites…
I learned things in this article that I did not know. Bless you.
patricia vilt: that’s why I go back to my vault…
You’re totally right. And, you, like me, are just part of the human race, God’s people. Isn’t it a joy to hear the young US Olympic athletes who happen to be black, giving God the credit for their success?
paul spangster: my prayer is that it is from a believers heart and not just lip service…