What parts of the Standard American History Myth did you believe? John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were founding fathers, but they didn't attend the Constitutional Convention. My bad.
Have corporations stopped owning people? And those “corporations” are just a few rich royals behind a board of directors and investment company. Nothing has changed and lie that just blacks were slaves or indentured servants continues.
My 10th grade US history teacher announced to us that we would be taking a pop quiz that was worth 50% of our grade, and told us we had to get every answer right, otherwise, we failed. She handed us the "literacy tests" and said we had 10 minutes to complete it. Beside our understandable confusion as to what this had to do with history, we all failed, terribly. That's when she came out and told us that had we been black over 100 years ago, none of us would have been able to vote in the south, and told us these were the literacy tests the curriculum told her to teach us about. She is still my favorite teacher to this day, because she had such an amazing way of personalizing historic events to us.
@Tangerine I think that by "today" what was meant was actually TODAY. There are laws, either proposed or on the books, that prevent teachers from teaching ideas that "make student and/or their parents uncomfortable." Of course, these laws are meant to keep what they perceive as anti-religous (read:anti-Christian) ideas, which they claim violate their right to practice their religion of choice, from being taught in public schools. These laws are also meant to prevent actual historical views and practices regarding race from reaching the eager ears and impressionable minds of young people. I'm not sure if these laws had already been enacted when you were in school, though i suspect they weee some places, but they do exist TODAY.
The more I learn about American history, the less surprised I am that I was barely taught American history in school. They want a workforce, not an educated populace.
That’s why if your not motivated like I was, but your still smart. They won’t even try they just give up on you, general labor? Ok that’s fine buddy get out of here. They give up on you if you don’t seem promising. So fuck them, I’ll use that as motivation
@@joshuaortiz2031 I think you can only go so far with that, especially with things like STEM. It's a good start, but you can't rely on it without putting hours more of time and keeping with a constant amount of effort.
I'm over half a century old, and it's astonishing how little people know about the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights, which we're having to fight all over again.
I’m not a fan of the CCP, but I really wish I had access to true Chinese heritage for information. Just like other ancient civilizations we can learn a lot. There are so many Chinese sayings that REALLY apply to life. Any graduate of West Point and other US military academies have read “The Art Of War”. It’s required reading…. But it’s also a very hard truth. This is how to win. This is how to dominate.
Yes…. I didn’t clarify myself, and I apologize. Or I was trying to clarify myself and it came out wrong. Given that the CCP has only been involved for a very short time, I never should have mentioned it and given the culture the respect I have, instead of bringing that into it. I wasn’t trying to offend, but I did anyway. Sorry…
I think it would have been worth mentioning that when America's Black soldiers returned after serving honorably in WW2, they were not allowed to take part in the GI Bill. That means no low interest loans for purchasing homes, and no free secondary education. I learned this only last year… thanks high school and college education!
I wasn't aware of this either, so I looked it up (thanks!), and you're blaming the GI bill when the problem was in banks or colleges privately deciding to be racist. Although it's totally possible the bill was designed this way i'd have to learn more to be convinced. Blacks were included in the GI bill, and it more than tripled their college enrollment (though tripling means little when the start value is 1%) "Though black people encountered many obstacles in their pursuit of G.I. benefits, the bill greatly expanded the population of African Americans attending college and graduate school. In 1940, enrollment at Black colleges was 1.08% of total U.S. college enrollment. By 1950 it had increased to 3.6%. However, these gains were limited almost exclusively to Northern states, and the educational and economic gap between white and black nationally widened under the effects of the G.I. Bill"
And the platoons were segregated. Brazil was the only Latin American country that have fought in World War II and Nazi soldiers said that they knew the platoon were Brazilian because there was no segregation
@@kschacherer92the gap really went to shit after the civil rights act and welfare tho. ....so the government is racist but mlk and others are gonna use it to help black ppl.... Lol how did that work
my seventh grade social studies teacher said one lovely morning "pop quiz!" and then she handed out the first page of the literacy test that you showed. she had all of us take the test, and then she had said "all of you failed." then she explained what the test we took was, and how it was used to prevent black people from voting all those years ago. everyone in the room was silent. i went home and told my parents about it, and they said "they shouldn't be teaching you that." she was a good teacher. i'm glad i had her.
I usually skip anything to do with slavery because as a black man it’s exhausting. But this was so well done and factual I watched the entire thing. The fact it’s done by a white male is even more satisfying because no one can claim bias or prejudice. This was enjoyable and much appreciated. Thank you
@@stevearcher6100 ah. What a gem of a comment you left earlier, "that's cool, but how about we talk about the CURRENTLY exponentially higher black on white violent crime as well" yeah nah man, that doesn't sound racist at ALL
He did work at a school for the Deaf and hard of hearing, so that's probably part of why he's so sensitive about including them! It's also why he always signs the number "3" the way people who speak ASL would sign it instead of the way hearing people often do.
Yeah but the hate is still palpable down south. I used to work, really want to reiterate used to, at a church that man, every single white person in that church hated blacks. It was an all white church soooo... I guess that makes the math pretty easy. Well, well,well I worked with the youth. I started to get kids from around the neighborhood to come meet on our youth night. They were not white. The church was in a mixed neighborhood. When they eventually got me to the point of actually bring the head leader for the kids 80% of the church members pulled me aside the first month & pretty much told me to find some white children to come. It was a United Methodist church. They kneejerked & took the option to leave if gay folks were aloud to preach. None of them know I'm bisexual. They really pissed me off on Easter this year. Made my black boys cry with their racist shit. The boys left the church after that on my suggestion. I'm sort of proud about that. I hope I saved them a lot of future pain. I keep referring to this church in the past tense if you noticed. That's because I really worked hard for votes to go against them to leave the church or not. They really didn't want to leave the Wesley faith. I made good & damned sure they did. I consider the internet to be pretty much my confession. I don't read responding anything & I sure don't answer anything. I just put it out there
Folks also overlook the basic fact that one of the primary reasons that African Americans didn't get the first 40 acres & a mule reparations plan. Was simply bc the American economic system known as Capitalism really did require a sorta permanent underclass to extract cheap labor from
I am black and growing up black in my schools I was taught in elementary “slavery happened, it was bad but then MLK came along and also Abraham Lincoln and now slavery go bye bye” and they never covered it more than that! This video is so informational!
And they never mention Malcolm X. You can forget that...too militant. Anyway, watch Slavery By Another Name...its a documentary by PBS that talks about this in greater detail. Read The Miseducation of the Negro, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. You're not going to learn the true history of the US unless you teach yourself. Do not depend on the American education system (including college) will teach this
As a black person, it was more a sigh of exhaustion than seething with anger. Seeing the hard fight to ban topics like this being taught, I’m not surprised.
My high school American history class taught that Reconstruction ended in 1877 because "That's when federal troops were withdrawn from the south." but never did explain why that was or what happened afterwards. Today I learned it was an election compromise, not a pre-planned withdrawal, and now I know why all the black representatives that were elected in the 1870's mysteriously disappeared in the 1880's. By the way, I graduated in 2008. I'm a millennial that was taught the same set of myths and half-truths as you were.
Knowing Better, Atun Shei, and now my favorite NASCAR channel. This video is checking all the boxes. Also I grew up the same as you, with the Alabama high school version of history. I was in the military during the Treyvon Martin case. Active duty military is an interesting place because everyone is from somewhere else, and most units are small microcosms of the country as a whole, and the opinion was nearly unanimous that Zimmerman was a murderer. I was on lunch when the verdict came out, and almost couldn't stomach going back to work. I, along with most of the guys I worked with couldn't believe it. That was the beginning of a long educational experience for me
i actually learned it was an election compromise in a cambridge course. crazy how there’s a difference between how we were educated… feels weird to see people not learning about important things. then again, it’s over a decade difference since im still in school
"You learned everything you need to know about history in Elementary School," is one of the most accurate indictments of the American education system that I've heard to date. As a person that was in advanced classes through an exceptional Elementary School, a decent Junior High, and an infamous High School that was in rap songs that tried to re-brand itself, the only thing the latter two institutions did was regurgitate information I had already learned. Seriously though, I don't recommend any schools that are featured in the rise of multiple rap artists.
@@POLARISFPVwell you don’t need to reach that far back to see that. Just look at last years abortion decision and you’ll see the Supreme Court does the bidding of the party that appointed them. That was the first time the Supreme Court took away a right they had previously affirmed Americans to have.
@@Baelor-BreakspearI thought they gave thapt power to the state level? And not the federal level. Plus, why abortion such a huge up roar? I watch my gun rights and inalienable right to self preservation erroded everytime a Democrat gets into office.
my great grandma who recently passed one time mentioned picking cotton with black people when she was growing up in the south. (she was white, just extremely poor) she mentioned that she made extremely little money doing so, while the black people werent paid at all. it was then we realized she worked along side enslaved people in the early 1900s. truly insane to me
That is sad to hear - everyone is up in arms about minimum wage today. Now imagine being dirt poor, being forced to work for free and being owned by another human at the same time....@@donwilliamson2106
The same thing happened in many Europeans countries as well around that same period, with much of the white peasant population being in slavery to a tiny but extremely wealthy elite. We have something called the veen kolonies, or "peat colonies" in the East of the Netherlands, were at that time families would live in basically a hole in the ground, covered with peat bricks and grass, working for the land lord.
As a black man who has had many victories in life over 6 decades, I congratulate you. I have never wrote an opinion on-line. You have thoroughly impressed me and contributed to my education. Thank you very much. Continue your passion and the Heaven's will openly reward you.⚖🦉
@@Sensei_gojoWhat a great question. I went to wikipedia and I found this: "In Greek mythology, a little owl (Athene noctua) traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology." A bit more detail: Minerva is the goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and more. What the reasons were for why the owl was associated with her is not agreed upon In either case, I presume this is why the owl is nowadays associated with law A further question I'd be curious about is why these values were associated with Athena. Perhaps it had to do with the fact Athena was the patron goddess of the city of Athens, and hence was a reflection of their culture, strengths, values, and ideals?
@@captainzork6109Predominantly, an owl is associated with wisdom. In East European fairy tales, owls and owl spirits are often sages, capable of passing solomonical justice. IMHO this differs a lot from the current state of American law.
Slavery by Another Name- Douglas A Blackmon The Color of Law- Richard Rothstein The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander … are all great books the go along or follow up with this video.
The Internet is definitely one of the greatest inventions ever because we can share content like this. Opening up doors, removing biases and introducing Skepticism
Skepticism is rarely skeptic to anything but a few things. The "Skeptic" in US history is just as often a useful idiot for other groups, unfortunately often for dictatorships in other nation-states that just so happen to be against the US. We see that most often with the current Ukraine War where even quite a few Lefties defend Russian genocide of Ukrainians just because they're anti-US.
@@stephenjenkins7971 yeah I wasn’t trying to say you specifically were doing it wrong. But the people who you were describing talking about the Russia/Ukraine war. But I can see how the @you name might have made it seem like I was saying you yourself were bad at it which is not what I was trying to say
@@JB-mm5ff very true. However we have written, oral, physical, archeological and scientific ways of confirming historical truths. Even some memories as poor as that may be. Lol
@@RichardChappell1 many people have gotten over the fact that many of their ancestors where soulless, evil, rapist, and child molesters who lived off of the sweat Capital of others. Many learn to understand their history, place it in proper context and move on to live healthy productive lives. Others cry when their heritages history is not handled with white silk gloves. They want the Winnie the Pooh version AKA nostalgic version
I was fortunate enough actually to have this taught to me in eighth grade for American History. The teacher taught us never to believe things were as simple and clean as the history books told us, and people found loopholes to continue atrocities wherever they could. I'm realy grateful for her; she was an amazing teacher.
This topic is sadly worse of and more confusing after this video. This due to the ignorance of the writer’s obvious bias for victim thinking instead of rational thinking and consequence based thinking. The majority of slaves lived in the south the majority of slave owners where in the south. The majority of southerners where from the poorest parts of Britain, this culture was distructive in the poor parts of Britain and likewise in the south. This culture was forced up on the slaves which then propagate it further. This can be sown in the way today black people speak English and the way today descendents from the poor parts of Britain do or did. This culture is what gives way for the inequality. If this wasn’t the case new Africans to the Americans Nigerians for example who do a hell of a lot better. This in the framework for America being racist doesn’t make sense logically. So the 1619 project and therefore this video. Personall note I find it sad that people like this UA-camr with lots of viewers don’t try to find mistakes in their logic like this. Thomas Sowell I such a savior for all of the Americans. Knowing better just made us know less, that might be the perfect allegory for these type of “mistakes” in logic.
@@DarthVader1977 This topic is sadly worse of and more confusing after this video. This due to the ignorance of the writer’s obvious bias for victim thinking instead of rational thinking and consequence based thinking. The majority of slaves lived in the south the majority of slave owners where in the south. The majority of southerners where from the poorest parts of Britain, this culture was distructive in the poor parts of Britain and likewise in the south. This culture was forced up on the slaves which then propagate it further. This can be sown in the way today black people speak English and the way today descendents from the poor parts of Britain do or did. This culture is what gives way for the inequality. If this wasn’t the case new Africans to the Americans Nigerians for example who do a hell of a lot better. This in the framework for America being racist doesn’t make sense logically. So the 1619 project and therefore this video. Personall note I find it sad that people like this UA-camr with lots of viewers don’t try to find mistakes in their logic like this. Thomas Sowell I such a savior for all of the Americans. Knowing better just made us know less, that might be the perfect allegory for these type of “mistakes” in logic.
My parents fled southern terrorism in the mid 50’s. Whenever mom would take us kids on a train ride back ‘down home’ as she called it, to visit grandma. I saw men on mounts, dressed in confederate uniforms, doing civil war reenactment. It was terrifying! Granny’s house sat next to train tracks. Every night around 2 or 4 a train would come roaring by at top speed. Her home was a shack that would shake at the passing of those trains. You could see the outside through the walls and floor. No indoor plumbing, it was a one room shack with an outhouse ands potbelly stove she cooked on and warmed the shack with. Don’t have to go in the middle of the night, there was no lights and you never knew what was crawling around outside. I had no idea I was black until we took a stop in Tennessee on the way to Georgia. I was not allowed to drink from a certain fountain. I could go on and on about my experiences, but you get the point. Because of this video, I was compelled to share. I know many may laugh at these 3rd world conditions in the riches country on earth, but I don’t care. Racism is a way of life here, till this day! I don’t expect empathy from evil folks. But, just know, the reparations America owes us will be exponentially more when you finally realize you must pay it.
Civil War reenactments are terrifying? You've never been through that. You have no reason to call it terrifying. 🤦🤦🤦 That's like calling a movie terrifying because they had civil war actors in it. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
@J.C… not terrifying in the manner of fearing for your life, but terrifying in the sense that you realize that all the people around you are reenacting a war in which they were specifically fighting to keep your ancestors in bondage. that’s what’s terrifying
Justice delayed is often justice avoided (by the responsible parties) . Worse yet besides typical delays, most lawsuits are summarily dismissed for being more than 2 years old. But the "authorities " have no such statute of limitations for "noteworthy" crimes prosecutions.
I actually learned about Neoslavery not from a history teacher but from my 8th grade Math teacher. This is because a black student called another the hard r and she decided to teach us why the word was not to be used. She taught us about how her grandfather was a slave even though slavery had been abolished and worked 12 hours a day to try and make ends meet at a plantation
I’m an Indian living abroad and my son is in American school. I wanted to teach him American history and I clicked on the video. An absolute eye-opener!! Nothing different from our very own caste system.. Power and greed leads to inhuman behavior. I don’t know how much I can teach and reveal to my son, but I know better than before now. Thanks a ton. 🙏🏻💐
@@kishmishhkoul2844 So is the caste system eliminated? I was under the impression that Hinduism was the reason for the caste system being that you were born to your condition and caste and not being mobile. What laws are you referring to being strict? And are they strict as in prohibiting the caste system from existing?
@@tntstorms7969 Hinduism never was the reason for it actually. The books said that your work would define your caste not the way you were born for example a teacher having the highest position after that the soldiers and so on. but well, greediness of the men in power ultimately disgraced the whole thing. While for the reservations its really helping, representation is now in large percentage ofcourse , and discrimination laws are pretty strict with people even getting convicted for life in more severe cases. I wouldn't say the caste bias is gone completely ,it is not practised but it's their, i have seen it even in my own family. however the times are changing and more people are fighting for the rights. Intercaste marriages were taboo 20-25 years ago however it's pretty common nowadays with interfaith marriages on the rise as well.
@@tntstorms7969 Er, me thinks you do not fully understand the way in which the which Caste system came about and it’s structure; I suggest you read a book by Isabelle Wilkerson.
Some stories of this extension of slavery survived within black families. You tell the average person about it and they try to convince you that it was just the regular prison system at work. When I was born, a few Civil War era slaves were still alive. It had to be painful for them to see their children and grandchildren grow up to be subjected to fates every bit as cruel as what they had experienced.
Prison slave labor still exists today. Over 100 corporations use slave labor. It has always been about the rich exploiting the most vulnerable and they didn't in reality care what color you were but the evolutionists started the debate painting black people as sub standard. The rich have and always will use any excuse to exploit the poor or disadvantaged and in the process use any means to divide and conquer those that have little power. I grew up in a mixed race church and we are to love ALL people.
This is why i hate when people say "Whats the point of knowing about History" Because all this stuff can happen and will happen again if left alone and without any knowledge. On top of that it gives us ao much information on what to do and not to do in the future when it comes to legislation, judicial issues, and so much more important factors that can effect our everyday life
Morelike who controls the history. If you havent noticed yet muraca was created by big greedy companies that are still runing the show. Railroad,pharma,oil and their lackeys in congress.
Behind the Bastards did a great couple of episodes on the KKK. The resurgence of the second KKK would be hilarious if it weren't so horrifying. It was basically a pyramid scheme selling white robes.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the history they are trying to protect. My father was a history teacher. When we moved to America. Every time he helped us with homework, he told us his blood pressure was about to go up. He taught us the real American history. So we study the myth to pass the test.. thank you for this video, and I had to share it.
Spencer Haywood a former all-star who played on the showtime Lakers (briefly 1980), grew up as a sharecropper, he said his family was held basically as slaves and threatened with death if they ran away...He said when he started to grow and get bigger (he grew up to around 6'8") he was falsely accused of murder and sent jail for a night, his mom realized that they might be trying to keep on the farm perpetually so after he was released she found a way to get him out so he could live and survive with a family member in Chicago. He's still alive today, still talks about that time, says whether it was called slavery or not it definitely felt like real slavery to him.
i've argued for years that sharecroppers were actually worse off than actual slaves because the landowner had no vested interest (sizable purchase price) in the "free" sharecroppers and so had little interest in the health, housing and care of their tenants.
@@jessestreet2549 my teacher said the same point the other day. With slavery, the owners had some reason to keep the slaves alive due to the money they spent on them. But with sharecropping and convict labor, the victims would regularly be worked to death
I knew someone whos family "employed" "help" on their plantation theyve owned since the antebellum days. Apparently theyve recently started paying them in more than just "food and housing"
Yeah, went to school in Texas.. you live it in Texas. Expecially if you are Native American. Honestly the intended purpose of it was so that an American born and raised Texan can, if need be practically recite the whole American history book, while presenting the colors and retiring the colors daily...in a dare I say "due process" fashion to free one another from injustices and illegal slavery. Imagine finding out in your late 30s, AFTER marking that you are American Native on all standard educational documents, and licensing that you are not native American, but rather only a natural born American.
All history is based on white versions of their story. Whoever wins the wars writes the history RIGHT so don't act shocked and stop shitting on TX like that bullshit history was just told down south 🙄
As a Texan born and raised, it is an absolute shame that our state (which probably has the most interesting history of any state) does a horrid job of teaching its history.
I never even learned about Black Codes. You've made it so much easier to understand why such important history isn't taught in schools. And how critical it is that people today know it
I went to school in Appalachia in the 90's we learnt most of what was in this video. Though I didn't know the extent the peonage system had been in practice. I also thought it had ended in the 1920s. I'm surprised at the comments section here. I thought everyone knew this stuff. Whilst I think they need to keep CRT at college level I also think they need to teach this as well. They also need to teach about the banana republics and the assassinations. Everyone needs to know just how despicable corporations and businesses can be when left to their own devices. If anyone needs to be taught why we need regulation, it's this kind of shit that needs to be pointed out.
Every country has its own "national myth". I can very well recite the "Standard Mexican History Myth" from memory. It may change a bit with the years but the essence remains the same.
Wow, I’ll be turning 76 in November and after viewing your black history lesson on “Neo-slavery” the part I skipped, I’m very thankful that I took the time to get caught up on what I should have already known by now. As a kid growing up under the parenting of an angry single mom, divorced with two children, myself and a 4 years younger sister, with no real father figure in our lives, latchkey, we experienced some really difficult times growing up. What made matters worse was my mom was a very attractive, racially mixed up black lady, (often being mistaken for a “white” woman), and it still was difficult for her (with only a high school education) to get a good paying job, she did domestic work on the weekends, to make ends meet, often leaving us alone. Due to our mom’s long hours, often there wasn’t anyone home to ask questions or help us with our homework, so homework eventually took a back seat to TV. Unfortunately, getting a good education was not my top priority, and eventually I got swept up during the Vietnam draft. It’s because of my mixup ancestry, (my grand father was a Pullman porter and was able to buy some land in Tennessee and own a dry goods store…and folks couldn’t figure out just how much of our black “tainted” blood he had in him, but he was able to maneuver around all the hate and ugly of Jim Crow. I grew up in south-central Los Angeles and didn’t experience all the harsh discrimination of the south. I admire my black brother’s and sister’s whose families overcame their oppression and went on established most of the acclaimed black colleges in the south, while still fighting racial injustice in America. Let’s get out and vote for Harris and Walz and a Democratic down ballot ticket!
history teacher here, currently teaching a new African American history curriculum in high school and I am talking about a lot of the things you bring up, but this is an excellent narrative with new stuff that I can incorporate and learn from. Thanks for such a comprehensive video
again you lie. the MAJOR reason for the war was the rich scum wanted more power. they used the LEGAL way to get out of the system by invoking states' rights.
Man, I’m an African American who loves history, and for me to not know this……it hurts. The fact that schools barely teach this is disgusting. I’m glad you taught me this though. Thank you. 🙏🏾
It’s a pity that teaching real history has become “criminal". CRT became a boogeyman though it isn’t taught to undergraduates. Because stupid people don’t usually go to college, they’ve nothing to fret about.
I appreciate how thorough this video was. I remember being so inspired by the Underground Railroad, and slaves fighting for freedom, and civil rights and all that. I absolutely loved the idea that all Americans were equal, but when I got into the real world as an adult, I was grossly disappointed, and continue to be more and more every single day. Realizing that everything I was taught was twisted as propaganda (“white washed” some say) has been so painful. I hope someday our children will have the nation that WE were promised, and that all of those beautiful men, women, and children lost their lives for.
Most people dont even know that the African Kings and Queens started the African slave trade. They literally rounded up their own people and created the slave trade. There was black slave owners in America. Africans also invaded and enslaved millions of white Europeans. I believe these things arent taught to the people because it would help all of us understand something that would change everything. Its not about black vs white. Its about good vs evil. Good people should reject race politics. The people that accept all this racial propaganda are fueling this deception and division.
@@thetruthispotenza3602 I would definitely be interested to learn more about this. Do have anything you can suggest to me (documentaries, books, articles, channels, etc)? Even some Native Americans had slaves. You are correct though, it’s about good versus evil, and that the racial propaganda is fueling deception and division. Much love. 💜💜💜
Good job! There is absolutely no reason for you to feel "guilty" for the fact that you were lied to. You are now telling the truth and that is what counts. Good for you!
I mean, it’s human- his feeling burdened about having mislead so many kids Teaching someone the wrong thing really weighs on you It can be outweighed by teaching more people the right thing but still 💜
Wow, this explains why American history after the civil war was soooo boring. Probably because all the drama was left out and replaced by little smiley faces. Thanks for giving me the history I missed.
Those literacy tests were no joke. We took the test in AP US History. The teacher offered extra credit to anyone who passed. Only 5 out of 75 people passed. That was the easier test. The extreme test version had no one pass as you would need a near perfect memory of US history, dates, and people.
A lot of people in the comments are mentioning how they essentially knew a lot of this prior to watching the video but I want to be honest and say this video was more informative then I would like to admit in particular in comparison to what I was taught. Don't be too proud to admit that you didn't know something particularly when the majority of our education system specifically avoids these truths. I thought share cropping was the main system used in the late 19th century and learning the extent of debt peenage was infuriating yet unsurprising.
Oh sure, i learned some new stuff watching this, but yeah, its not like i wasnt taught this sort of shit. It just either wasnt covered as extensively as this, or most kids didnt give a shit growing up. Some people treated history like a blow off course, especially if you werent taking AP courses.
Yeah, 4nt actually hit the nail on the head for what I think is true for the majority of us. I knew the vast majority of this shit from school and "independent studying" (see: randomly browsing through wikipedia sources on random topics that we've all done, don't try to deny). Sure, I don't have the explicit dates memorized, deep knowledge of the minute details, etc. and- even after watching this video- I still don't have those things memorized because they aren't important enough for general life. Maybe I'm wrong, as I'm just guessing based on my own personal experience and interaction with people around me, but I think most people did already know the majority of things discussed in this video. There's nothing wrong with you if you didn't, its simply some historical facts you didn't know.
I think the issue is that, like with anything, you know the generals but are vague on the details. Some people may argue that not knowing the details means you don't know the generals, but I disagree. To me knowledge isn't just an "is" or "isn't" thing, but shades. Like, as a Korean-American, I consider the notion that anyone has simply KNOWN that Japan brutally occupied Korea before and during WW2 to be good enough and that the details are just garnish. We all don't know the details of things which don't affect us as a person or as a member of a group... but to me it's enough that you know it happened at all.
Thank you Sir, indeed you are correct in your assessment, because if people knew so much on the subject as they say, why they are not willing to collectively push for change and yet they talk about equality, because they are only willing to benefit from slavery and the laws that was pass after the civil rights movement. There has been so many immigrants that came to this country after the civil rights movement to benefit from the civil rights movement laws. They try to speak as if blacks is crazy when we speak on the subject like opportunities is always there. If blacks won’t better opportunities in America, they either have to join the military or get high interest student loans to get an education. The education programs that will put a person in a good job is 3 times cost of other programs. The only reason the Democrats won’t to pass an immigration bill is because those immigrants will vote for the Democrats. It doesn’t has nothing to do with freedom. Kamala, nor Obama are not African Americans, they don’t represent us. They are not descendants of slaves who built the US economy. Our people have been systematically oppressed by these basis laws dating back to the beginning of this country. I grew up in Alabama and yes the Klan hung the last black man in 1981. The US government has pretty much protected the Klan the whole time. It took public outcry for those few men not all to be brought to justice. I say, gawd dam them Democrats/Republicans and gawd dam America.
Oh our educational system failed me to the point where I do know these things because I was removed in the 7th grade I hard to learn shit on my own not be fed it by "teachers".
I know more epic History-Video-Essays and Myth-Busting, so let me recommend you Oversimplified, Bluejay, Second Thought, Genetically Modified Sceptic and Some-More-News! Some More News should really be highlighted cause hes excellent Coverage of all kinds of problems, as hes specialized on simply 'adressing and listing problems', which may make his Coverage seem 'random' but its not.
It's somewhat terrifying that this just over hour video goes into far more detail than semester after semester of schools do. I had to learn most of it on my own, and yeah, it is upsetting, and horrifying, and very uncomfortable. But if we don't know, we can't do better. We don't have the tools to understand why things are the way they are when so much is glossed over or lied about - which is even worse when it really doesn't take all that long to dig into! Keep up the great work, glad the algorithm decided to bring this video up.
This omission of history feels quite deliberate. The obfuscation that the Confederacy fought for "states' rightz" is an easier pill to swallow when you don't mention that A.) slavery was one of those rights, and B.) all the practices after slavery that kept it going in all but name.
The real history of Black people in America is a history of the mistreatment of prisoners of war. It can not be told in history classes due to fear of said people finding out who they are. Their ancestors were not natrive to Africa but were prisoners of wars with Rome, England, Spain, Portugal and others. They were forced out of the Middle east and Europe and taken to Africa, from there some were brought to the Americas, the Carribean and other places as slaves. Black people in America are descendant of the Hebrew people of the Bible and this can not be taught in schools without offending and making liars of those who say they are Christains and Jews. It is the Christian Church and Jewish Synagogues that owes reparations for slavery and identy theift.
You hit the nail on the head with the feeling guilty for being white thing. I think that’s why so many people are afraid to open their eyes to racism because they just think “well I’m not gonna be guilty for being white!” when in reality you don’t need to feel any guilt as long as you’re not racist, you just need to acknowledge that it’s there and has been there. Very informative video
A lot of people like to cherry pick the smaller number of race activists and Twitter idiots who think literally all white people are racist and are consciously preserving their privilege. Those people exist, but they’re a convenient stereotype for other bad actors to use when they want to deflect from genuine race issues.
What about minorities being racist? Racisms aren't limited to affirmative action law! This new woke is untrue! That law, when it was written, was only for the current minorities. Not a forever law. I grew up in the late 60s and 70s. I had seen some of this racism first hand! I was so glad that law was enacted! We needed it! But like always, it's been totally abused! I'll tell you what. If Dr. King had come out of his grave before the George Floyd protests and rioting. He would have been over joyed with the progress this country had made! But the new all whites are inherently racist is just ridiculous! There were bigots there are bigots and they're always will be bigots! But that is not what you are calling racism! Our children have been exposed to each other's culture for a while now! They didn't even realize for the most part of racism! Until recently it was like I said mostly bigots! But not just bigots who were white! Bigots of all races! And whether you like it or not being white is a race! And when you talk so negatively about white people then you are a racist also! Somebody needs to stand up and control The narrative of bit. They need to acknowledge that there has been racism in the past and there are possibly some residue of its still, but nothing like is being yelled out by minorities now! Like I said earlier I had experienced real racism! This black lives matter whole situation is just a exasperating the problem. Let's get our facts straight and the narrative straight and become one undivided country again! And the kneeling during the anthem is disgraceful! Professional athletes have such a very wide avenue to be heard! I'm not against they're not believing in society yet I don't agree with, but have them go to the Arlington cemetery and have them kneel there in protest! Let them see why we are so offended! Let them see WHY people are so offended! Also, what's with playing of the black national anthem? There is no black nation! There's the United States! Maybe someone who disagrees can tell me where this black nation is? Did the black slaves get freed because the black slaves rioted for their freedom? No! How many countless whites were killed in the civil war to help free the slaves! I have yet to hear anyone speak of this! And don't tell me that's not the case! If it were then they wouldn't be tearing down Confederate statues and changing names! So they do recognize that the South represented slavery in the North represented non-slavery! So go to these Union graveyards and kneeling protest there for the tens of thousands of white people who died in that war! Disrespect their part and freeing the slaves! Whites should not be blamed for everything in history! Especially when your history is wrong! Especially when the history you are presenting is wrong! When affirmative action took place, it helped to relieve the current leftover racism in America! By bringing this up all the time about 400 years a slave has just set back racism by 50 years! And when you speak of slavery, do you realize how many native Americans we're enslaved? And killed with diseases! And put on these reservations without weapons to hunt with and terrible land to be able to farm! Don't you think that needs to be acknowledged! So how is all lives matter being racist? There is nothing about that that is racist! BLM is racist! Also in American history there was a thing called indentured servants! Check your history! These people were shipped over from England and that area because the lower class in England were getting overwhelming! So they offered free passage and the promise of land to the United States! But most of them didn't understand was that their patch of land which they were promised, came with 7 years of their type of slavery! In fact native Americans blacks and whites of that poverty level sometimes stayed in the same places together! And these whites who came to America under those conditions had very strict rules against them! They were not a citizen so they had no voting rights, they were practically a slave for the the 7 years. They had absolutely no rights and were beaten and abused when they didn't give their property owners the food and stuff that they had made each year just like the old class system of barons and such in England! Did you know that they were forbidden to be married! And if they did become married then there indentary was added by 7 years and the women lost any rights of citizenship! And did you know if they had children, that the children would be indentured until the age of 20? So you can see the cherry picking minority movement! And no one living today has anything to do with that! That goes for the civil war the rights to vote and everything else to benefit minorities or suppress minorities! Heck half of the white population or more in this country were immigrants well after the civil war! So you cannot blame the entire white race for your history of 400 years of racism! That would take you back to the early 1600s! When the vast enslaved people were native Americans and low class whites! So please stop this nonsense! Stand together shoulder to shoulder as the human race! We can do so much good if we did not allow them to divide us! PS I'm sure that some may try to pick apart different things in this statement go right ahead! The meaning is there! And the general history is there! So forgive people of 400 years ago who enslaved many races! And those who argue about how great our founding fathers were, you can look back and see what their thoughts were! And if the time of history that they were living in! And how they left ways to make amendments to the Constitution because they knew society would change! Just like the freedom of the slaves, women and black rights to vote! Affirmative action! And the mixing of races within the last 40 plus years! So don't be part of that problem! Be a part of what Doctor Martin Luther King had envisioned! Of a rainbow coalition and peace between the races! Okay I hope this gives you a slightly different opinions on the current conditions! My statement here is not too flare up anymore racism is to get an understanding into move back towards the future that we have come since the affirmative action law! Peace and love to ALL!
@@Ikon55_ Holy shit dude I don’t know wtf you’re on but I didn’t even mention half of the random ass crap you put in your long winded rant about I’m not sure what… most of it sounded pretty racist though so… nice I guess? 😂 why are you talking to me like I’ve done all this stuff and am blaming white people??💀 Did you even read my comment 😂
Exactly, we really don't need or want y'all to be guilty, we just want you to get how race impacts us differently because of all of these different factors
Someone is going to see this title, type "woke" in the comments and never bother listening. This is the single most informative video I've ever watched on youtube. This should be played in every history class in every school every year until racism is dead. If youre saying racism will never die then you are seeing my point.
You are the reason rasism won't die. You and race hucksters, identity politics. People who can only be intrestesting based on victimhood. Try reading Thomas Sowell than UA-cam garbage as "the single most informative video I've ever watched" ugh.
This video reminds of high-school. I have always been a history nerd, and this was my teachers last year before retirement. So in the AP class, instead of doing the normal skit, he decided to change it up. At his (and my) last 2 weeks he went in depth about everything and anything about just how messed up America was. He was retiring and didn't care. He contradicted pretty much everything the school forced him to teach. Pretty much explained everything in this video, so 3 years later I look back to that, and I probably learned the most in those 2 weeks than I did throughout highschool.
@@nacholibreriit’s actually the opposite. It shows us pretty well how MUCH the system actually works! It would be foolish to believe that anything BUT this is intended. For the people it is horrible and bad, but for the system, for the government? Ideal. What they planned out works! So why change it up?
@@tophatcat1173Sooo much is being skipped. If you’re a democrat or subscribe to communist ideology then these are the sources of the majority of what he’s telling you about. It’s propaganda, he’s inflaming the audience especially when he’s sharing what the Communist Party has done without recognition the past 100 years including the protests he referred
in more recent times, Sir James Goldsmith, back in the 1990's, actively protested against globalization. He said when you move factories to other countries, and import the goods, you destroy local jobs, and force local populations to go into debt to afford those imports. We are now living through the consequences of those policy decisions today.
Although this may be uncommon, my high school history teacher actually handed out those ‘literacy’ tests for us to take and failed all of us to make a point of how unfair it was
I had a teacher that did this too. We did this first thing in class one day and he told us it would be part of our grade. Mr Vanenburg best history teacher I ever had
Heck, in '60's Dallas (aka City of Hate) we used as a textbook, Texas History Movies, published by the Dallas Morning News in 1934, which was a racist Jim Crow graphic novel , still in print. Black folks all held melons and Mexicans all sombreros. And they wonder why we had issues.
My high school history teacher did a similar thing with old citizenship tests (I think passing the test was required for entry to the US but I'm not sure). I remember one of the questions to draw the utensils into an image. Easy right? Not if you're from an asian country and have only ever eaten with chopsticks or if your from a country that predominantly eats with your hands. It really taught me how these tests were purposefully designed to exclude non-white people.
When you revisit a topic you learned about in grade because your grade ten social studies teacher looked at the textbook, looked at us, and said "this book was written and mandated by the government, who were the winners. This has some truth to it, but not the whole truth, so im going to use it the vare minimum and instead teach you a whole lot more" (paraphrased) Same teacher told everyone to stand up, and everyone did, because there was an expectation that we listened to teachers, and then he questioned why we listened to him. 10/10 teacher, so glad i got a really good education
I feel part of why the redeemer era(1870-1914) gets so little coverage is that it paints an even darker image of America than even going into depth on slavery. The abolition of slavery as a bookend is a happy ending of where things were horrible and got better, a moral ark of history where America may be a flawed nation but inevitably makes progress. The redeemer era shows that to be false, the bad guys won through unrelenting backlash and violence, and in the end rolled back progress for nearly a century. For this they died not as villains, but largely seen as heroes in a world they had successfully made in their darker image. Multiple generations lived and died in the century it took for African Americans to regain the rights they should have had in 1866. That is not to say that progress is impossible, but that is to say that there is no guarantee of progress.
Absolutely correct. I would just add a little tiny thing onto that: It is not impossible for something similar to happen again. Even among the people that you say that you follow, or the leaders of your political parties or whatnot, do not be afraid to ask questions, and to consider the full long-term affects of what they are doing. I've pointed out how people in both parties have been manipulated into voting against their own interests, because the person with the D or R attached to their name say the things they want to hear.
@@BeyondtheBlade Most people voted for Sleepy Joe because he's not Trump. Now the gas prices are thru the roof, (Oh, Democrats are for the people, not the 1%, they say, so then why are the oil barons profiting? Hmm?) And Czar Vladamir the 1st of the New Mother Russia wants WW3.
@@CrazyBear65 It is only due to Joe Biden that I am able to make this prediction: Donald Trump will be vindicated by the history books as one of the greatest US presidents, if only because Joe Biden, at least for the time being, appears to be absolutely inept, weak, and feckless. If Donald Trump had won his second term, he would have likely been seen as one of the most chaotic and terrible presidents.
As a 16-year old who recently learned about the WW2 era and de-segregation, I could tell something was wrong but obviously didn't know what since I wasn't taught anything else. This video really helped set things straight for me, and you put it so clearly even a kid can understand. Thank you for making this video, more people need to see this.
and that's what they "gov't" doesn't get. This younger generation is not stupid and it doesn't matter what you look like but as long as they can feed the lies, they will. I'm glad that you came across this video as well. You can continue to enlighten yourself by educating yourself b/c their goal is to keep individuals like you in the dark.
If you want, try to find out what Jefferson said about those coming into the country with nothing to offer but the labour of their hands. I can't accurately remember the radio programme made by the BBC but I think it was something along the lines that they don't count as people.
@@KAYSLIF3350 Many politicians over time and space complain about 'Immigration'. Others say that we are short of young workers. One of the reasons given for the fall of the Roman Empire is the lack of citizens prepared to do the jobs down at the bottom of the pile that the society depended upon.
@@brianvanroy1528 By all means, explain what bearing the fact that people of any skin color could be taken as slaves in war, or sell themselves into slavery, in the Roman empire has on the issue of chattel slavery of Blacks in the United States. But please, let me get some popcorn first.
I was one of the "hippies" referenced by Nixon's man. I never broke a law or joined a demonstration, but I was a very effective advocate. I was harassed by police, and couldn't get a job, even though I had a college degree. What I am saying I saw the horrors of the war on drugs and how the law was applied. I saw how police used, and are still using no knock searches to intimidate, and at times assassinate their target, and that most of the time the target was black or brown. I saw how the war on drugs helped create and empower the cartels just like prohibition produced organized crime. I saw how the police were all over some street kid selling crack while downtown I saw several businessmen cram into a toilet stall blowing powder while a cop was using a urinal.
It's one big crime syndicate, greed and crime will get you to the top, but you need another narrative to give plausible deniability. Nixons Narrative explanation was no anomaly, it's SOP. standard operating procedure, it's worse than Mob activity and deadlier
The biggest problem has always been the rich on the poor. The more they could make white fight black and black fight white the more they could divide the people and accomplish their goals.
@@313-v9k stop. the problem is the blatant sentencing disparity between "black" vs "white used substances. think for more than 2 seconds about this topic, as uncomfortable as it may make you.
Thank you for updating my education on this topic as I was wonderfully under-educated in Alabama, especially because I was never given an actual US history course, because in the AP program, you take European History the year they taught American history in the non-college credit classes so I only learned about the colonies and then jumped back across the pond after Independence. This was 20 years ago now, so it's possible things have changed from the way things were then but as much as I had learned on my own since, there were still some things I hadn't come across. I am so grateful you're making this information available and I have shared this with several people already. 🙏🙀😿
And the black guy that they elected was mixed raced and raised by/around nothing but white people. Had to make sure he didn't have a chip on his shoulder.
As a UK person, I remember covering the American civil rights movement in school for exams, (conveniently circumventing Europe/Britain's involvement in the unit title I know), and we all were taught the same timeline you were. But it's good to find a channel like yours, learning never stops
@@f1rek1ller-56 seeing as america basically influences all western powers it's quite normal to learn a little bit about them we never covered anything in Australia though
Debt Peonage isn't even "neo-slavery", it's classic slavery on the rocks. In Roman times this was called 'Nexum' - debt slavery. Not always of oneself, but sometimes of one's family; it was less targeted, and I want to say involved less trumped up charges and traps to keep one in the system and whatnot, but I can't say that in good faith. This wasn't like slavery. At other periods in human history, we'd absolutely have called it slavery.
Comparing slavery in the US with slavery in the classical era isn't very productive. Societies were quite different. For example, a person wasn't a unit in the eyes of the law (law being much less developed in general). You could collect a debt from someone's family or friends. Also money was less ubiquitous. Working off a debt was a very common and reasonable arrangement for lower class people. And lastly, slavery in classical societies spanned a very wide range. From prisoners of war being worked to death, to people voluntarily entering slavery to be apprentices to the master.
@@darkmater4tm I'm not comparing slavery the entire institution and it's impact on society, I'm comparing Debt Peonage. Which in Classical Times we - and they - called slavery, because it is an was.
@@darkmater4tm Yet what you said makes the comparision valid because there was people that worked to death and those and chose to appease their masters. This what I cannot stand Slavery just didn't happen in the US. Hell it was happening then your euro nations it's why a lot of people fled their country to comes over here. So they wouldn't be such, even if they ended up repeating the past by not understanding it. This is also why people understand a lot of laws aren't for the rich it's to leak money from the poor. The pricing for fines can get crazy.
I love how the United States has always been about slavery and there has never been a day where slavery did not exist in the US. And to be more accurate, it is just as funny how 1860-1945 was the transition to prison slavery by making it so that black could be slaves everywhere by every single measure possible (black codes and debt peonage) and then we exclusively switched to prison slavery.
Thank you so much for this information. I am 72, have a college degree and I had heard of most of this only in passing. No one ever explained this through-line and I am embarrassed and ashamed of myself and our educational system. It explains institutional slavery. I am in your debt for this.
and bet they didn't tell you irish were 1st slaves and (indentured servitude) were white Irish and the 1st african slave arrived by accident in 1619. Irish were way way cheaper than africans. mainly african were indentured servants like the irish, so served 7 years of slave labour. the 1st lifelong african slave was owned by Anthony Johnson 1654 who was a black man. yes you heard right and he mainly owned white irish slaves.
@@valleyboy3613 I am Irish, mostly, and am well aware of the many English and Irish slaves in the Mediterranean area long before America had any. I am also aware of the Irish indentured who were all but slaves long before Africans were brought here as slaves. Still, most of the information in this video was new to me. Thank you, too, for this information. Apparently I am not as educated as I thought, and I am grateful for everything I learn that is new to me.
I have an honest sincere question - I didn’t know most of this either - and assuming that this man has represented these bits as accurate truth - why would you feel “guilty” did you participate or get anything from these folks - most everything he’s pointed out stopped 60 years ago
@@MaxMeridius0920 I was never taught any of this history. I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I didn't see through this, and that I didn't understand how many lies I was taught, and how I participated in systemic racism generally. No, I don't know of anything racist I particularly did, nor my parents, who taught me that black and brown people were my equals. I never saw them be unkind to a black person, but I did see their slight air of condescension. I grew up thinking that was the worst that black people experienced. I am ashamed that I wasn't a more open confederate to those fighting for their rights.
I didn't realize round 2 slavery was waaaay worse than round 1. Using the they're criminals myth and eugenics really helps explain why segregation was so widely accepted/permitted at the time. It always confused me why the North bought into it.
Lethe. V It wasn't worse, let alone way worse. It was still bad, but comparing it to actual slavery is like comparing the current war in Ukraine to the Nazi invasion and occupation of Ukraine in WW2.
We always want to see progress and sometimes a little too impatient with our own family. Then not even to consider our friends or the other people in our community. By what I mean is it more important that I become as rich as Elon or that everyone that works for a successful company should not need government assistance along with their salary to make ends meet?
I'm only 2 minutes in, but I just want to point out what a missed opportunity that acronym is. It totally should've been name the Standard History of America Myth (SHAM)
Hearing about Charles Bledsoe was truly heart-shattering. _Mobile, Alabama was my birthplace._ October of 1941 places that man's actions to after my grandparents were born, long after federal law supposedly abolished slavery - hell, my grandfather is *still alive to this day!* I can only imagine the horror that would wrap across his face to know this happened within his own lifetime. I truly, sincerely, fucking _profusely_ thank you for this video. I've been well-aware that American history has been watered down, but even I wasn't prepared for this.
My great grandmother is still alive and was born in 1924. I knew slavery ended much later than 1865 but just how far away....mind blowing and eye opening.
And we have been brainwashed this entire time and flooded with propaganda daily. We are no better than the Soviet Union except perhaps only better in the maintenance of the illusion of freedom
"But I can assure you, no child is learning about anything I've talked about during this video." (around 1 hour 14 minute mark). Well, there is one now, and that would happen to be me. Great video, I told my father, who is also a former history teacher about this stuff, and he essentially knew nothing as well.
I have been waiting for someone to REALLY do this subject justice the way you did. Thank you sooo very much for putting this video together. I hope you continue to tell American/human History as it was 🙏🏿 * PS This is my first time ever leaving a superthanks for any video
I was born in deep rural Georgia and I remember when the 1996 Olympics were held in Atlanta. It was the first time I even heard that there were people who thought some in Atlanta were racist. I recall being confused and then indignant. For surely I would have seen it before, right? I mean, I was a white 18 year old female born and raised here, went to a mega southern Baptist church, and attended a Christian high school. Who better to know about such things than me?? I remember loudly condemning interracial couples because no one was thinking about how hard it must be for the poor mixed children. I'm still embarrassed by my sheer racist stupidity. If you're not from here it can be hard to understand how much of the racial divide is purposefully ignored. Thankfully, I looked beyond the truth I was told and did my own work to know better. As fate would have it, I'm married to a funny, handsome, and talented Black man who is an insanely gifted voice actor. When we aren't having a blast with our 3 mixed children, we run a production studio with a focus on getting more diversity in cartoons, video games, audiobooks, and other media. People can be reached and educated. Don't give up!!! 💕
Believe me when I say that racist crap was taught to Black children in Christian schools. I was fortunate enough to attend a church where mixed couples, with their mixed race kids were members, and it was interacting with them on Sundays that broke through the lies of the southern Baptist school curriculum
@@warlordofbritannia Yes there is when it affects black people lol. It’s good to grow as a person but take responsibility for the affect of your actions.
@@rawfermews4186 What better way to "take responsibility" than to grow, learn and be better? What good does an apology do if you continue in your ignorance?
Kind of tangential but slavery also is very prevalent in Dubai (and other places I'm sure, but I'm more informed on this one). There's an entire pipeline of people in India going to Dubai to get opportunity and upwards financial mobility only to get there, get their passport taken and work as basically slaves who don't get payed for months if at all. No guarantee that they will ever get back to their families. My dad worked there for a few years and the conditions are appalling, glad he was lucky enough to get out.
Yep, it's very much a thing throughout much of the middle east. It's just a very different Type of slavery from the American kind most are familiar with, largely because even within the context of four thousand years of written history of slavery the kind practised into the mid-19th century in America is one of the worst kinds there ever was. Modern Middle-Eastern slavery is closer to the kind of stuff the united states was practising into the 1970s.
Americans are in love with their victimization as if they get "brownie points" for every group they fall under that makes them a victim or an unappreciated minority. Telling them that their are unfair things in other parts of the world steals their limelight and they will hate you for it
In China and around Asia too, many of the scammers from there are actually slaves, entire building full of them inside guarded complexes, and the police there ignores it even though they clearly know about it. The BBC did a documentary on it.
Something similar to neo-slavery happens in the gulf states nowadays. Worker from South-Asia arrive in countries like Qatar and the UAE, and often have to sign contracts which they know little about and their passports are taken away, essentially trapping them. After that, they're often horrible exploited, having to do tough labor in harsh conditions. Often times they are debt-trapped as well. All of this just to make some money to support their families back at home, young men leave their countries. And when they die, the debts sometimes get sent back to the parents at home who are struggling to make ends meet. It is actually quite unnerving how many similarities there are. I guess we still have a long way to go.
Oh noes! B-b-but CNN, and Knowing Better, tell me that the USA is de worstestest EVAR! How can it be? It’s almost like, as you point out, there is actual barbarism and savagery in this world, so much in fact that we DON’T have to burn time inventing and pretending it exists in the USA. Remember. Jussie Smollett’s would-be assassin still walks free.
This particular type of slavery if I'm not wrong is called 'Indentured Servitude', basically what happens is its a kind of labor contract where the person voluntarily works without pay with food and shelter provided in exchange for paying off some sort of debt or service that has been given to them. Generally its meant to be a more tame type of slavery with clearly defined limits as to what they will be doing, how they will be treated and for how long they will be working, as its voluntary on part of the worker in question though as for how it happens in Qatar and the UAE it is practically abduction akin to what was previously done to Africa with the slave trade. A example of which is with some colonists used to get to the America's, these particular colonists would use these sort of contracts to get to the Americas or where they wanted to go in exchange for providing the ship or affiliates of the ship a service. A example of which could be quite simple such as offering to work as a kitchen aid or helping the crew clean the ship while in other cases they might work as something a bit more demanding such as a railway constructor or in a general labor position much like more normal slaves.
As a German (who was taught very little about USA's past) this makes much more sense and actually explains the current state of affairs in the USA better than the bite-sized stories like the BetterU one I've heard most often. Really good video!
I'm South African, the old Apartheid government did some pretty horrible things too, not just segregation. What do the U.S, Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa have in common? Eugenics and race science. Ideologically, the U.S and the Nazis weren't that different. Hell, American race scientists and politicians were very fond of Hitler in his day. In South Africa, we have a remnant party called the AWB, which is some alternative take on the Nazi party. If you Google it, you'll see what I mean. Point is that as a South African, what many people don't realise is that the history of these crimes against humanity goes much deeper and appears in much scarier places than one could imagine. Anything you could think of that the Nazis would spew about race was institutionalised as culture for a very long time here in South Africa. My grandfather still taught me that black people are inhuman and are that way because they carry the mark of Cain (which to the racist means that black people are destined to evil and must be extinguished). These evils run very deep and they exist where you don't expect them. Half of Europe agreed with Hitler, they just didn't like the idea of living under a German flag.
@@julianmcmillan2867 American race science created Hitler. He read all of their publications. He was then funded by Americans and Europeans during the war. He murdered the same people that funded him. None of this is hidden knowledge. All of the scientists ended up creating the nuclear, space, and medical space scientific advancements.
@@julianmcmillan2867 "Half of Europe..." This is not so clear. Indeed a lot of people where more ambivalent about their thoughts. As an exemple, I remind the example of two jews who where hiding in a attic and protected by the concierge. When the food went to miss, near the end of the war, the concierge had to ask more bread to the baker that she could have from the tickets and explain why. The problem is that the baker was kinda... Antisemitic... and had expressed joy learning the "Vel d'hiv" raid. But, when she was asked by the concierge to help, she didn't say a thing to the germans nor Vichy milicia and gave her more bread... and a few candies for confort! There is sometime a difference between what people say and what they do at the end, especially when confronted to the reality to have the power to kill someone they're in front of. People are better than what they think... Indeed?
@@greenfrog7578 , weird analogy tho... Doesn't that imply that the baker's ignorance to the fact that the concierge was hiding Jews in it attic their saving grace...? Either I'm reading your comment wrong cause that doesn't help your argument at all, in fact makes it soo much worse.
@@greenfrog7578 I agree. When I say half of Europe, I referred to the political landscape, the ideological landscape. Whilst the U.S was fighting in Europe black men were being lynched back home and black women sterilised. Same in South Africa. I do agree that what people say and what they do are two different things. For instance, my dad is a staunch racist, however, his actions speak otherwise. He will stop alongside the road to help a black family with their car, or a security guard and his wife get home because they had alot to carry and a far ways to go. I understand that, still the reality of that era is that the allies had alot more in common with Hitler than you'd think. They just didn't want to live under a German flag, and the U.S didn't even want to get involved until Japan attacked. After WW2, it took another ~30 years for people of colour to be awarded civil rights in the U.S. And it took another 50 years in South Africa. Today, in my community, I'm surrounded by people who say 'Hitler was right, we should have exterminated all of these pests'. These are the remnants from the apartheid era, and they're still very much alive and kicking.
My head is spinning. As a lawyer with 2 separate undergraduate degrees, I am shocked that NONE of this was taught -- at any time, in any school. Not even as part of law school. You've totally changed my mind and attitude towards reparations now. I need to watch this yet again. Thank you for making this video.
@@charlievane317 You're joking, right? Quite the opposite: this bit of history was quietly erased, not forgotten. There are plenty of people who "remember" the Confederacy and celebrate "the lost cause" and "states rights" yet somehow they neglect to study this part. This knowledge wasn't "lost", it was buried because it didn't fit the narrative they wanted to push. Quite frankly, NOBODY wants to teach lessons about how the rich and powerful have manipulated and mistreated the working class. The issues of overinflated criminal charges, used to disenfranchise minorities? That's STILL happening, so of course "they" don't want it taught. Hell more and more prisons are being operated for-profit by corporations that are subcontracted by the government.
Fabulous video. 🙌🏻🏆 I have ADHD and I watched the whole thing. Incredibly informative, educational, and eye-opening. I've NEVER been able to sit through long videos before. You are such a phenomenal educator and presenter. 🙏🏻💖 Thank you so much for teaching the truth. I learned AND ABSORBED a lot. 🕯️
I found a “labor contract” for my 3x great grandfather in South Carolina. Heartbreaking to know that after he was freed from slavery, he still ended up toiling in the fields. Thanks for making this video. So many people want to sweep history under the rug and cry that “critical race theory” teaches people to hate our country. The truth is we’re a country of wonders and horrors and we deserve to learn the truth about our past and how it shapes the present.
Dude, I am all for that. But critical race theory does just teach negativity and division. Problem with us is that none of us can try to learn without picking a side and stamping on a label. I'm pretty proudly Americana, but I don't call myself a conservative because that label sparks instant division and negativity. We all just need to be people, and truth just needs to be truth. Everything else be damned.
@@loturzelrestaurant - ha-ha! Don't forget "unF* cking the Republic" on podcast! THEN… it would be a magnificent power to behold… along with some other personal selects… but that's my preference.
"we’re a country of wonders and horrors and we deserve to learn the truth about our past and how it shapes the present." That sums it up. I'm so sick of hearing that America is the greatest country in the world. There is no 'greatest country in the world.' And if there were, it wouldn't be America. But there are a lot of great things about it. So it should have the backbone to look at itself in the mirror.
@@konspiracy9895 teach negativity and division, or just point out a variety of selected information in an argument / ethnographic analysis - such as summed up in this video. One could say this video is a result of “Critical Race Theory”, if the author had cited research and published this to a research review board. Dont blame the methodology, rather blame the knee jerk biases people have, selective ignorance, or talking heads that try and shape narratives into their favor.
It's a matter that is not unique to USA or any nation. It is a human thing, which keeps proving what a strange species of animal we humans are. I blame nature.
Sir... this video made me cry. Your dedication to the purely educational aspects of all of this while being able to subsequently invoke powerful emotion through critical thinking and hopefully an inherent empathy for of inhumanity of it all propelled by greed in its purest form has made this video one of my top five ever. We should all just be better people and try to help uplift one another because only through that is true progression worthy of reach. Good work and I love you for it brother
When I was in 11th grade, we walked into APUSH class and the teacher immediately gave us a test. It wasn't over anything we had studied. The questions were strangely worded or basically indecipherable, some had no correct answer or didn't specify how to provide an answer. She told us that the test would determine 10% of our semester grade. Through the entire time, she was muttering that she knew we wouldn't know how to do the work and that we'd never pass the test. She'd scold us if we asked questions or spoke. Just treated us like idiots. Rushed us to finish, then collected all the tests. That was how she introduced the topic of the literacy test to our class. Incredibly traumatic to me, a very anxious and possibly neuro-atypical student, but also one of the lessons that left the greatest impression on me.
One of my history teachers did a very similar same thing, only he just gave people random grades on the test because some of the questions didn't really have a right answer. He then talked about the literacy tests and showed actual period tests that had a lot of the same questions on it. Of course the test wasn't for an actual grade.
I’m a 90s kid, at the time I went to school in Oregon I noticed the teacher (wht, old) would always mistreat the blck kids- she would get mad at them all the time, she would rip up their tests if she did that like it, etc. I was too young to understand why they were treated that way but I understand now that I’m an adult. Rsm will always continue to exist and people of color are still treated differently.
I'm from the Caribbean. In school, we learned all about the versions of neoslavery that existed here (apprenticeship, plantation tenantries, various Located Labourer acts). It's a wonder to me that this kind of stuff isn't readily taught in the USA.
Apprenticeship is kind of like internship. You work in exchange for learning. Plantation tenantry is serfdom. I'm unsure about 'various located labourer acts' unless you want to get into some weedy anecdotes. None of those are actual slavery (ie. indefinite to permanent ownership of the person until they are sold or freed). Neoslavery is a conveniently imprecise modern buzzword. Instead, learn the proper terms for these things, because they will actually tell you what they are. It's important to distinguish reality from naming convention (physis from nomen, ie.), don't you agree? That's why the names like 'serdom' are important, because they are the closest we have gotten to reality so far to describe these things.
It's weird for me as an American too because most of this was taught in my school (although way later than it should've been imo. Not until high school). Must be a state thing I guess.
As someone who studies convict leasing in Tennessee, this is a great video. Just a couple corrections: 1. Tennessee prisoners were NOT sent to Birmingham. They were leased to Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company (it's a little more complicated than that, but we can go with that for simplicity's sake) who used prisoners in their mines in Tennessee. After convict leasing ended in Tennessee in 1896, Tennessee Coal and Railroad moved its headquarters to Birmingham and continued using forced prison labor there, but those were Alabama prisoners, NOT Tennessee prisoners. 2. States absolutely used convict leasing to make money. The lease on the Tennessee State Penitentiary could not be sold for less than $100,000 PER YEAR beginning in the mid-1880s. That would be over $2 million per year in today's money. 3. Selling crops after sunset was specifically illegal as a means of controlling sharecroppers. The idea was that sharecroppers might sell some of their crop outside of their contract with the landowner. They would need to do it secretly so that the landowner didn't know, and would probably do it at night to prevent witnesses. Hence why selling crops after sunset was illegal. I am happy to provide archival documents for these facts if you are interested.
Weren’t there other sunset laws though? I remember learning about them. They scared black people into staying off the street or out of view after sunset because almost anything they did could be construed as illegal.
In addition, selling things after sunset might have been a great way to make some extra money as a side hustle (watch NotYourMommasHistory where she talks about how side hustles helped free black people stay afloat). You might catch foot traffic by people coming home from work, and if you’re selling food people might be hungry because it’s dinner time. Not surprising it was criminalized by racists in power.
Right, but isn’t #3 simply an example of how it got started, but then later was used and abused later? We see this all the time and, especially certain people, get hung up on defending the origins, but not the common use?
@@lukeiamurdad9055 Ngl, not many have the intellectual Integrity to watch the History Coverage that Some-More-News did i nthe video "Our Fake Thanksgiving'.
This makes me ache in my soul for my poor grandparents and great grandparents from the early 1900s. Just knowing a piece of their stories, this reminded me that there was probably so much more that they saw and went through daily that they haven’t told me. I can’t imagine living in fear and working to the bone each day leading to absolutely nowhere. Thank goodness Black Americans have some kind of natural joy in our spirit and in our community and are able to fight through trauma together. I pray for the ones who this system has taken, and for the ones who are affected/corrupted by it today and don’t even know it.
You can't imagine? Maby not the fear buy do you have a job? If so even if you enjoy it your probably working persistently for the benefit of your boss. He gives you peanuts while he or the company racks in the lions share. That's working your fingers to the bone. And if your poor or just lower class in america. You know the average black American. It's ten times worse 40 hours work weeks with 30 and 15 min brakes. 45-60 mins of rest to work 8-12 hours per day. At a warehouse or restaurant or under the sun. On concrete floors. Working for even less peanuts. Then imagine that times 2 just to kinda feel middle class sometimes and have a little financial head way. Then imagine leaving that work to go home. And having to worry about police assuming your guilty of something until proven innocent. And other blacks around you in a lower class or in a worse situation. Some even wanting what you have. Others killing each other and taking innocent people like you with them in the cross fire. Not to even mention the prison system. All of that is working your fingers to the bone and living in constant fear. Wat he just described is a small piece to a very large puzzle
I'd hate to imagine the absolute horror that they were able to forget… only because it always happened! It would leave us traumatized… what they were able to forget.
@@YouHaveToSeeThisMovie -… and imagine that another country changed YOUR country's minimum wage laws to $2.20/hr., so that they could build a factory there? This causes a chain of events that leaves the region in complete chaos. So bad… that 10 of the top 10 most dangerous places to live (outside of active war) are all around you! Then you try to seek asylum… but that same country makes it to where you can only seek asylum in the nearest country to yours which is ON THE TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS PLACES TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET!
@@YouHaveToSeeThisMovie out of everything I said you attached to the phrase “I can’t imagine…” and wrote all of that? It is just a phrase to express empathy
@@YouHaveToSeeThisMovie @Tasha Hype I think what both of you said is completely valid, and obviously you both share a similar intent. There is still so much pain and unresolved trauma from the past, compounded with modern difficulties. We are still fighting this fight-the same fight-for our ancestors, ourselves, and our children. We just have to keep going, and we will eventually get to that “mountaintop.” Much love 💜💜💜
As a Black woman born in the segregated south and the great granddaughter of a enslaved woman who was a child when slavery “ended”, this video is appreciated. Unfortunately most people have been conditioned with the belief that “slavery ended along time ago and they should just get over it”. Sadly most people either don’t care or would rather not be reminded of the atrocities subjugated by people over another. Considering that other ethnicities have and will continue to be placed above and benefit from the struggles and civil rights advances. It’s still a fact that civil rights doesn’t apply to Melaninated people. At only 14 percent of the population, black people are still the core contributors to the financial sustainability of a nation.
Dude, you’ve been at this for a long time and your videos have been consistently getting better but WOW. You absolutely FLOORED me with this one. Not only did I feel like I was always learning something new every 30 seconds, but you treated it with the proper gravity and also used some great writing tricks. I really, really appreciate your craft. Thank you for sticking at this for so long. Made my day to see this.
@@Praisethesunson has he? I caught his videos somewhere in the middle I guess, as I started watching him about a year ago. Was he really like right-wing? How refreshing of a change
@@blankii333 I have watch his videos and I think he just tried to be neutral in his videos, as much as the topic would allow him, but been factual and honest when it comes to assess the reality will place you in the "woke side" more often than not. Saying that, he used to have conservatives ideals, he had talk about it, he comes from a Military family, he went to some military school or something and served in Afghanistan or other place, not sure where, he got injure in combat or something. As young student he arrived to some "conclusions" on why black kids weren't doing as good as him or the rest of white kids, yes, negative conclusions. He have a video about the school system, he touch a little bit of his past inmature and wrong conclusions in that video.
@@Alobster1 I do too, the problem is that everything that's it's not staunch conservative is "lefty" or "woke"...In my country nothing is deal in left or right, so I was not aware that I was a "Lefty" keep on mind Mexicans are VERY conservative culturally speaking (religiously, social norms, work places etc) but we tend to lean left in social issues, a meant left to American conservatives. I am very conservative, financially speaking, dating, working, etc, but to the American right, just for have commun sense in social issues am just a "woke lefty". So yes I don't like to deal in these absolute terms, specially since in my country political alliance is not deal or define like this. But explain that to an average Con Joe after decades of Tv and political/religious propaganda about communism and the left distroying the very fabric of their country
In my American history class someone shared an anecdote about their grandfather talking to a black cab driver in New Orleans and he ask “you can vote right? since you can read” and the driver said he got down to the polling place and the literacy test they gave him said “If you can read this your dead”
Sadly, when I moved to New Orleans for business in 1981, it was made VERY CLEAR to me that they were still fighting the Civil War in Louisiana. White and black alike made this clear. And it was, back then, a VERY different world from anything else I had ever seen. After this video, I now understand why both races were mentally stuck in the 1860's, and what they were angry about. This needs to be taught in school. Putting blinders on hasn't worked, so let's try some understanding.
@@allisonmarlow184 I visited Huntsville Alabama in 1981 to visit an Aunt. I was in 7 th or 8 th grade. My Aunt took me on a river cruise. At one point they started playing the song Dixie. Everyone stood up just like they did to sing the national anthem at a baseball game. I have the chills now just thinking about it, I have a very new understanding of what happened. The more I learn the more I realize all of the lies I have been taught and why things just do not make any sense.
"it abolished slavery as a legal concept but didn't include punishment for people still engaging in it" HOLY SHIT that is some Terms of Service legal fine print loophole they've made there @_@
I believe I learned that once slavery became illegal, it was actually only a little illegal there were many ways of getting around having to pay for labor. For instance and imprisoned black man could be forced into free labor. Many things could put a black man in prison. Many ridiculous things. There you go back to your free labor nothing changed. Nothing ever changes instantly anyway and money always talks
I have a Bachelor's in Communications, with a minor in History. I have really been into studying History and reading about the topic. This is the first time I am hearing about debt peonage. That alone should say plenty. Thank you for making this video, it was very informative and enlightening.
Before this video I wasn't someone who thought that racism ended with slavery hundreds of years ago, but this still managed to change my perception on racism in America more than anything else I've ever seen, heard or read. It did more than my school ever did, and my school went out of its way to teach the true history, so it did a better job than most. Every child in the country should watch this, thank you so much for making it Edit: I also want to add what part of my perception changed. I was often dismissive of modern racism in America because "Well sure there was segregation and the war on drugs, and police brutality's still an issue, but black people have been essentially free to do most things since the 1860's. racism is what put black people in the position so many are in today, but it doesn't keep them there, they have it pretty much the same as white people in the same class as them." But with the knowledge that slavery not only existed, but was prominent for nearly eighty years after it "ended", that those who weren't enslaved were in constant fear of the very real possibility that it could happen to them over essentially nothing at any moment, I came to understand that racism is much more than a faint shadow of this countries past.
We need the parents, man. Somebody has got to break through the mindset that continues to foster the lies, yes, but a generation of parents need HELP!!!
@@frankthefrankfrank8138 me too, i had a similar experience to this person, grew up a white guy in the deep south (my immediate family, except my dad isn't racist) and up until a few years ago when I started stepping outside the bubble I lived in I realized and learned alot and it completely shifted my opinions on pretty much everything about post civil war America. It's great seeing people grow and learn and I haven't finished the video yet, but I know KB has explained it in a way that will change alot of people's minds.
If you were willing to change once, I beg you to look at the actual facts, and open your mind once more. Police brutality is an issue for black people as much as any other race, the statistics show that more white men are shot and killed by the police than black, and you better believe they don’t get the same attention even when it’s a questionable shooting. All the”hands up don’t shoot” garbage you see on twitter is a flat out lie most of the time, and you shouldn’t make opinions until you’ve consulted a non-biased source. Racism DID NOT put black people in the position they were today, if it did, then how would you explain asians, who suffered much of the same discrimination, even being put in camps in the 20th century, yet today they earn on average more than the American white man. If slavery caused the American black to be in their current position , then explain Nigerians. Nigerians were among the people enslaved, blacker than the average American black, today Nigerians are the highest earning people in all of America. They make more money than white people, AND asian people. Ask yourself this… If racism and slavery was the reason, why have many other black ethnicities prospered in our country, yet the American Black has failed? Truly ask yourself, dig deep, and I think you’ll find this is much bigger than racism and slavery’s scar. Indeed, it a result of culture, Asians do better than most because of how highly they value education, that is culture. Nigerians are apparently even better at encouraging education. Not to mention, the absolutely staggering 67% single motherhood rate among American blacks, there are massive issues like single motherhood present, and people want to blame it on racism?
And, the truth is, many similar laws are still on the books. The are technically laws that anyone could be held to and are... black, white, orange, and green people all fall prey to these laws, but the people affected are disproportionately people of color. I think we have an overall great country, but we still have a loooooooooooong way to go to get it right. Thank you for reconsidering your position.
I'm french, and this is gold. We have our own myths that are still causing harm as well, with the same kinda rotten smell and artificial flavor. There is so much to understand from this video. Like not believing obvious lies and biases, staying critical, digging the facts and examine them from all perspectives, with humanism in mind. To be learned by all americans indeed and everyone, really. Thank you !
I had an aunt who while recounting stories about her early life, told me that during the great flood of 1927 in Louisiana a group of Black men showed up claiming that, "The master abandoned us." This was after the water started rising. The implication is clear that these been were slaves…
There's a movie that Keke Palmer starred in (don't remember the name) that retold the story of slaves that were found in either the 1960s or 1970s that had been so isolated from everywhere else, that the white people were able to keep the black people enslaved. This is exactly why I don't celebrate Juneteenth
That's a trip. Many of my family members left the South, as part of a caravan comprised of extended family and other "kinfolk," right after The Great Flood of 1927 and during The Great Migration. My great grandmother told me that's why she was deathly afraid of rising water because she remembered when the levee broke.
I find it disturbing and despicable that Southern states are writing laws banning this information from being taught. We need this information shared, not banned and hidden.
This is your best work. Hard to even express just how impactful a message and with such a sincere and genuine delivery. Looking back you may lament some of your shortcomings as a teacher but your messages are so needed and reaching people all over the world. Your dedication to seeking the the truth is admirable. Thank you
1:14:25 This person feels guilty for teaching the “standard” and “sanitized” way, he probably had at most a few hundred kids. He reached 500,000 viewers with this video. That makes up for it IMO.
As someone who was taught in the Canadian education system, we often glorify our role for the underground railroad and helping to free black slaves escaping servitude, however this entire video enlightened me a lot on the "in between" period of slavery and the modern day war on drugs. I learned a lot thank you for sharing.
@Christa Simon to be fair, although it is probably not available in a lot of the country, I was pushed into an alternative English class which was entirely based on indigenous authors and their experiences, for two years. It was not glossed over, but I live in the middle of nowhere and have no idea how it is in the majority of the country.
Responsibility for most of the drug trade and use lies at the feet of the American government. They have and are using it to fund wars, regime change expenses along with a host of other illegal and immoral things; including, control of its own population.
I didn’t learn this in school either. I did learn it in college. I attended an HBCU and majored in history and political science. My eyes were opened to so many things I never knew until then. Now I add those things when I teach social studies. The picture of America changes dramatically when all the pieces are put in place. Thanks for the video.
As a Brazilian, I used to think you guys have handled that matter better since the 13th Amendment came in 1864 and our "Lei Aurea" only in 1888 (we were the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery). Unfortunately, the reality is always much more complicated than dates and laws. I love this video! It's great to see history through a more critical lens. It's not always easy to access that level of information, so thank you so much for making it possible and accessible.
i wish i knew how important was it to learn history as a kid. I also wish there was a channel like KB in Brazil, to talk about these issues.... if you know any, id be happy to check them out! i have poor knowledge of the UA-cam culture in my own country
In a way we handled it better on the "gradual emancipation" sense. When one reads on the Imperial Period of brazilian history, lots of cognitive dissonances show: multiple prime ministers, and the Imperial Family, were staunch abolitionists and abhored the practice. Still, for 66 years of independent existence we kept them in bondage. Our constitution, based on liberal and enlightened ideals, didnt ever mention slavery: but it made reference, once, to free persons, therefore implying the existence of non-free persons. We continued to use the Phillipine Ordinances, that made the slave both thing and man. At least, or maybe even worse: there wasnt a current of morals or ideals to justify slavery on the black's inferiority - the justification was Always naked self-interest, the Brazilian economy would collapse without It.
@@LOWERCASEJOKE Indentured Servitude is effectively slavery; something difficult to remove. I still remember when a Saudi prince was caught in a scandal when it was discovered he brought an indentured servant to NYC.
Our current Vice President is big on slavery she made sure prisoners that were either acquitted or had finished their sentence remained incarcerated to they could fight wildfire for free.
I am one of those 'non American' viewers (Bangladesh) and I really appreciate the lengths you go to / effort you put in to make it understandable / digestible for someone like me. And yes, the BetterU bit IS hilarious !
as a black person you had to have a white person who was your former employer speak for you for another white person to hire you? And, when has that 'code' changed? We black males fill out job applications that have employers or former employers as a reference.
This made me think about how I learned recently that in 1800s Britain it was very difficult for domestic servants to find better working conditions because they needed a recommendation letter from their last home to work in a new home. An abusive owner/employer would rarely ever allow it. Honestly when I think about it, as a white woman I'm not sure that any employer I've ever had from working in food service, to working in an office, has ever called any of my references. And now I'm realizing that this process could be and likely has been unequally applied to my coworkers. Just like employers discriminate against black names on resumes, they could easily do the same for references.
This might be the best deconstruction of historical myth you've done. As a white man in my early 40's, I've spent the past number of years learning just how much of what I was taught when I was young was little more than a twisted narrative. I'm not American, but as a Canadian I've heard all the same things. Good job, and thanks!
Canada has a whole different set of issues with racism, mostly against first nations people. If you're researching stuff like this I'm sure you've researched that too though lol
@@Comuniity_ Most Canadians that grew up after the 90s learned about the residential schools and what happened to the natives, the level of detail depends on the province and teacher, but everyone has some knowledge about what happened.
@@JollyOldCanuck I never learned about residential schools, grew up in Ontario and I graduated in 2018. We learned about "aboriginal" people in elementary, where I was taught that we were all friends and helped eachother and everything was peachy keen. Didn't talk about Indigenous people after maybe 7th/8th grade.
What makes people most angry isn't so much as America's atrocities committed against another human being but the fact that we've been lied to and that the lies continue. TY for making this video that should be taught in schools.
Who is angry about being lied to??? We have people in this country basically burning books and fighting against this history being taught and I mean the watered down history that was being taught now they have to teach slavery was good! So I don’t know what you are talking about but that’s the luxury of living in a bubble and not having to deal with reality! As a Black man that offends me a lot of these laws that are racist can be changed but won’t and you wanna know why because a certain group in this country that has true power to do it just won’t because they support it and have this deep seeded hatred for us like we did all these things to yall and not the other way around they started a propaganda war against us that last to this very day Arabs are right now still enslaving Black Africans and the world says nothing about it and it’s 2024! People are angry they were lied to??? Wow! I want to meet these people! As if Black Americans haven’t been saying these very SAMETHING for generations but this kid makes a video and now it becomes real to yall! That’s offensive! I will say atleast you have a heart to even feel away about all of this but it’s not enough to make a comment we need change and REPARATIONS ARE DUE WE NEED ACTION ON THAT BLACK AMERICANS SHOULD BE LABELED A PROTECTED GROUP AND BE GIVEN LAND AND THE RIGHT TO GOVERN OURSELVES JUST AS THE NATIVE AMERICANS WE GIVEN! Let see who stands with us on that!
As a Black US military vet who literally has my family's bloodline of former slaves running through my veins, I genuinely appreciate you laying out the REALITY of the history of the government sanctioned targeting of fellow human beings solely because they have my skin complexion.
It's not just skin complexion, which is the problem; but instead, the actual real problem has to do with your classification status. Being a descendant of Freedmen/Negroes has been a classification problem, in many respects.
First things first; thank you for your service. I think you nailed it; some human beings need to feel superior to another human being and will do just about anything to validate that feeling.
You guys need to stop downplaying these peoples generational struggles. And to me it seems that there are more racist (white against colored) people in the US than non racist. And I'm white American myself.
What parts of the Standard American History Myth did you believe?
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were founding fathers, but they didn't attend the Constitutional Convention. My bad.
That football is respected around the world
I live in Kenya my history classes literally copy pasted the myth demonstrated here. Now I know better
Have corporations stopped owning people? And those “corporations” are just a few rich royals behind a board of directors and investment company. Nothing has changed and lie that just blacks were slaves or indentured servants continues.
That America is a country and not a continent
@@teteteteta2548 Football is respected around the world, just not handegg. Everyone watches FIFA
My 10th grade US history teacher announced to us that we would be taking a pop quiz that was worth 50% of our grade, and told us we had to get every answer right, otherwise, we failed. She handed us the "literacy tests" and said we had 10 minutes to complete it. Beside our understandable confusion as to what this had to do with history, we all failed, terribly. That's when she came out and told us that had we been black over 100 years ago, none of us would have been able to vote in the south, and told us these were the literacy tests the curriculum told her to teach us about. She is still my favorite teacher to this day, because she had such an amazing way of personalizing historic events to us.
And if you do that today, you risk your job in some states...
@@EricSundquistKC well, it was "today" sorta. Only about 4-5 years ago
You were in 10th grade - you wouldn’t have been able to vote regardless…
You must have not been in a dark red state. Sounds like a good teacher.
@Tangerine I think that by "today" what was meant was actually TODAY. There are laws, either proposed or on the books, that prevent teachers from teaching ideas that "make student and/or their parents uncomfortable." Of course, these laws are meant to keep what they perceive as anti-religous (read:anti-Christian) ideas, which they claim violate their right to practice their religion of choice, from being taught in public schools. These laws are also meant to prevent actual historical views and practices regarding race from reaching the eager ears and impressionable minds of young people.
I'm not sure if these laws had already been enacted when you were in school, though i suspect they weee some places, but they do exist TODAY.
The more I learn about American history, the less surprised I am that I was barely taught American history in school. They want a workforce, not an educated populace.
the practice that did in US it looks more like gulags that were in USSR
That’s why if your not motivated like I was, but your still smart. They won’t even try they just give up on you, general labor? Ok that’s fine buddy get out of here. They give up on you if you don’t seem promising. So fuck them, I’ll use that as motivation
you could always read about the subject on your own outside of school. That's what I did.
@seth rollins people in high places of authority?
@@joshuaortiz2031 I think you can only go so far with that, especially with things like STEM. It's a good start, but you can't rely on it without putting hours more of time and keeping with a constant amount of effort.
An old saying in Chinese:
“A page in your history book is a lifetime struggle of your ancestor”
I'm over half a century old, and it's astonishing how little people know about the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights, which we're having to fight all over again.
I’m not a fan of the CCP, but I really wish I had access to true Chinese heritage for information. Just like other ancient civilizations we can learn a lot.
There are so many Chinese sayings that REALLY apply to life.
Any graduate of West Point and other US military academies have read “The Art Of War”. It’s required reading…. But it’s also a very hard truth. This is how to win. This is how to dominate.
@@mattiemathis9549 nothing at all to do with the party…
@@mattiemathis9549 you know The Art of War was written in 5th century BC and the CCP was founded in like the 1920s. Not related at all lol
Yes…. I didn’t clarify myself, and I apologize. Or I was trying to clarify myself and it came out wrong.
Given that the CCP has only been involved for a very short time, I never should have mentioned it and given the culture the respect I have, instead of bringing that into it.
I wasn’t trying to offend, but I did anyway. Sorry…
I think it would have been worth mentioning that when America's Black soldiers returned after serving honorably in WW2, they were not allowed to take part in the GI Bill. That means no low interest loans for purchasing homes, and no free secondary education. I learned this only last year… thanks high school and college education!
I wasn't aware of this either, so I looked it up (thanks!), and you're blaming the GI bill when the problem was in banks or colleges privately deciding to be racist. Although it's totally possible the bill was designed this way i'd have to learn more to be convinced. Blacks were included in the GI bill, and it more than tripled their college enrollment (though tripling means little when the start value is 1%)
"Though black people encountered many obstacles in their pursuit of G.I. benefits, the bill greatly expanded the population of African Americans attending college and graduate school. In 1940, enrollment at Black colleges was 1.08% of total U.S. college enrollment. By 1950 it had increased to 3.6%. However, these gains were limited almost exclusively to Northern states, and the educational and economic gap between white and black nationally widened under the effects of the G.I. Bill"
@@kschacherer92 interesting comment and useful clarification. Although not surprising.
And the platoons were segregated. Brazil was the only Latin American country that have fought in World War II and Nazi soldiers said that they knew the platoon were Brazilian because there was no segregation
@@kschacherer92the gap really went to shit after the civil rights act and welfare tho.
....so the government is racist but mlk and others are gonna use it to help black ppl....
Lol how did that work
Roland Martin and AL Sharpton.. if they were white they would be comparable to Wes Watson and Dylan Mulveny....
MLK would be Mayor Pete Buttigouge
my seventh grade social studies teacher said one lovely morning "pop quiz!" and then she handed out the first page of the literacy test that you showed. she had all of us take the test, and then she had said "all of you failed."
then she explained what the test we took was, and how it was used to prevent black people from voting all those years ago. everyone in the room was silent.
i went home and told my parents about it, and they said "they shouldn't be teaching you that."
she was a good teacher. i'm glad i had her.
Efficient way to teach children how some people were treated without saying "racism bad m'kay".
So did your parents vote for Trump once or both times?
@@Rotwold”racism bad m’kaayyy”
Wow
This is what my social studies teacher was like and I loved her. We need more teachers like this!
I usually skip anything to do with slavery because as a black man it’s exhausting. But this was so well done and factual I watched the entire thing. The fact it’s done by a white male is even more satisfying because no one can claim bias or prejudice. This was enjoyable and much appreciated. Thank you
💯💯💯
Yes!
@@stevearcher6100 aight bruh whatever fits your racist narratives
@@stevearcher6100 ah. What a gem of a comment you left earlier, "that's cool, but how about we talk about the CURRENTLY exponentially higher black on white violent crime as well" yeah nah man, that doesn't sound racist at ALL
@@stevearcher6100 another freak at it again... go dig a hole yeah?
It's probably not a big deal for most people, but I would really like to thank your for including subtitles, it really helps
bump
More youtubers need to include subtitles. They’re so incredibly useful
Yes, it's amazing!
Huge deal for me
He did work at a school for the Deaf and hard of hearing, so that's probably part of why he's so sensitive about including them! It's also why he always signs the number "3" the way people who speak ASL would sign it instead of the way hearing people often do.
Slavery wasn’t abolished. it was redesigned
Best way to put it
Yeah but the hate is still palpable down south. I used to work, really want to reiterate used to, at a church that man, every single white person in that church hated blacks. It was an all white church soooo... I guess that makes the math pretty easy. Well, well,well I worked with the youth. I started to get kids from around the neighborhood to come meet on our youth night. They were not white. The church was in a mixed neighborhood. When they eventually got me to the point of actually bring the head leader for the kids 80% of the church members pulled me aside the first month & pretty much told me to find some white children to come. It was a United Methodist church. They kneejerked & took the option to leave if gay folks were aloud to preach. None of them know I'm bisexual. They really pissed me off on Easter this year. Made my black boys cry with their racist shit. The boys left the church after that on my suggestion. I'm sort of proud about that. I hope I saved them a lot of future pain. I keep referring to this church in the past tense if you noticed. That's because I really worked hard for votes to go against them to leave the church or not. They really didn't want to leave the Wesley faith. I made good & damned sure they did. I consider the internet to be pretty much my confession. I don't read responding anything & I sure don't answer anything. I just put it out there
yep
Folks also overlook the basic fact that one of the primary reasons that African Americans didn't get the first 40 acres & a mule reparations plan. Was simply bc the American economic system known as Capitalism really did require a sorta permanent underclass to extract cheap labor from
and we added white people to it lol, these days we're all equally wage slaves
I am black and growing up black in my schools I was taught in elementary “slavery happened, it was bad but then MLK came along and also Abraham Lincoln and now slavery go bye bye” and they never covered it more than that! This video is so informational!
Wait till you hear about how ameirka destroyed so much black radical leftist movements
Tbf, that was probably all the budget could afford.
@@siresorb1419 are you serious?? Stop making excuses.
And they never mention Malcolm X. You can forget that...too militant. Anyway, watch Slavery By Another Name...its a documentary by PBS that talks about this in greater detail. Read The Miseducation of the Negro, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. You're not going to learn the true history of the US unless you teach yourself. Do not depend on the American education system (including college) will teach this
@@Jersey.D3vil201 I don't think he's making excuses I think he's just talking about how underfunded public schools are
As a black person, it was more a sigh of exhaustion than seething with anger. Seeing the hard fight to ban topics like this being taught, I’m not surprised.
Yeah, banning topics like this is just like supporting them!
The argument about CRT has nothing to do with any of this.
@@h8today You are right. It's almost like they think these topics are never taught at all in schools.
@@-sn0wm4n-21 Yes. People are afraid that children are being taught "You're white, so that makes you racist."
Information like this is antifragile - it gets stronger and spreads more when people try to suppress it.
My high school American history class taught that Reconstruction ended in 1877 because "That's when federal troops were withdrawn from the south." but never did explain why that was or what happened afterwards. Today I learned it was an election compromise, not a pre-planned withdrawal, and now I know why all the black representatives that were elected in the 1870's mysteriously disappeared in the 1880's.
By the way, I graduated in 2008. I'm a millennial that was taught the same set of myths and half-truths as you were.
Knowing Better, Atun Shei, and now my favorite NASCAR channel. This video is checking all the boxes. Also I grew up the same as you, with the Alabama high school version of history. I was in the military during the Treyvon Martin case. Active duty military is an interesting place because everyone is from somewhere else, and most units are small microcosms of the country as a whole, and the opinion was nearly unanimous that Zimmerman was a murderer. I was on lunch when the verdict came out, and almost couldn't stomach going back to work. I, along with most of the guys I worked with couldn't believe it. That was the beginning of a long educational experience for me
Frickin awesome to see you here s1ap.
i actually learned it was an election compromise in a cambridge course. crazy how there’s a difference between how we were educated… feels weird to see people not learning about important things. then again, it’s over a decade difference since im still in school
And in Minnesota, often rated among the best public schools in the country I learned the same thing while graduating in 2017
@@ArmtheArmless1990, Atun-Shei is cringe.
"You learned everything you need to know about history in Elementary School," is one of the most accurate indictments of the American education system that I've heard to date. As a person that was in advanced classes through an exceptional Elementary School, a decent Junior High, and an infamous High School that was in rap songs that tried to re-brand itself, the only thing the latter two institutions did was regurgitate information I had already learned. Seriously though, I don't recommend any schools that are featured in the rise of multiple rap artists.
Well, I sure didn't have Samurai taught in Elementary School!
What in the most privileged comment is this?
I’m curious what these rap songs are
Dumbest shit I've had to read in my life.
The piece about how slavery is illegal but _practicing_ slavery is not illegal completely blew my mind!
shocking stuff.. even more shocking that this stuff not so well known.
It just goes to show you how the supreme Court can never be truly politically unbiased
I don’t get how they didn’t charge them with kidnapping, torture or murder when the workers died.
@@POLARISFPVwell you don’t need to reach that far back to see that. Just look at last years abortion decision and you’ll see the Supreme Court does the bidding of the party that appointed them. That was the first time the Supreme Court took away a right they had previously affirmed Americans to have.
@@Baelor-BreakspearI thought they gave thapt power to the state level? And not the federal level. Plus, why abortion such a huge up roar? I watch my gun rights and inalienable right to self preservation erroded everytime a Democrat gets into office.
my great grandma who recently passed one time mentioned picking cotton with black people when she was growing up in the south. (she was white, just extremely poor) she mentioned that she made extremely little money doing so, while the black people werent paid at all. it was then we realized she worked along side enslaved people in the early 1900s. truly insane to me
I am white and snapped cotton bowls in my youth. I received 2 cents a pound.
That is sad to hear - everyone is up in arms about minimum wage today. Now imagine being dirt poor, being forced to work for free and being owned by another human at the same time....@@donwilliamson2106
The same thing happened in many Europeans countries as well around that same period, with much of the white peasant population being in slavery to a tiny but extremely wealthy elite. We have something called the veen kolonies, or "peat colonies" in the East of the Netherlands, were at that time families would live in basically a hole in the ground, covered with peat bricks and grass, working for the land lord.
@@thetwins4948 just cause the past was ass dosent mean the present should hold that standard
There's a Korean war vet in my town who says his dad was freed by the government in 1906. It's insane how recent all of this actually happened
As a black man who has had many victories in life over 6 decades, I congratulate you. I have never wrote an opinion on-line. You have thoroughly impressed me and contributed to my education. Thank you very much. Continue your passion and the Heaven's will openly reward you.⚖🦉
wait, now im curious, whats that owl supposed to mean? does it represent justice?
@@Sensei_gojoWhat a great question. I went to wikipedia and I found this:
"In Greek mythology, a little owl (Athene noctua) traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology."
A bit more detail: Minerva is the goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and more. What the reasons were for why the owl was associated with her is not agreed upon
In either case, I presume this is why the owl is nowadays associated with law
A further question I'd be curious about is why these values were associated with Athena. Perhaps it had to do with the fact Athena was the patron goddess of the city of Athens, and hence was a reflection of their culture, strengths, values, and ideals?
@@captainzork6109 I'm pretty sure the owl means Drake. Drake is an owl.
@@captainzork6109Predominantly, an owl is associated with wisdom.
In East European fairy tales, owls and owl spirits are often sages, capable of passing solomonical justice.
IMHO this differs a lot from the current state of American law.
@@captainzork6109good to know…I knew it had to do with intellect, but that's all I knew
Slavery by Another Name- Douglas A Blackmon
The Color of Law- Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander
… are all great books the go along or follow up with this video.
Thank you for these book 📚 recommendations! I’ve read The Color of Law before, I will check out the other 2 books.
@@elizabethyow1165 Read on!! ✊🏽
If you want another one pertaining to racism in algorithms I suggest “Algorithms of Oppression” by Safiya Umoja Noble.
Thank you. ❤
@@maryjaneb550 No problem. If you want more literature, let me know
I’ll add one, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson. Her lectures can be found on here (UA-cam) as well.
The Internet is definitely one of the greatest inventions ever because we can share content like this.
Opening up doors, removing biases and introducing Skepticism
Skepticism is a great band.
Skepticism is rarely skeptic to anything but a few things. The "Skeptic" in US history is just as often a useful idiot for other groups, unfortunately often for dictatorships in other nation-states that just so happen to be against the US. We see that most often with the current Ukraine War where even quite a few Lefties defend Russian genocide of Ukrainians just because they're anti-US.
@@stephenjenkins7971 then your doing skepticism wrong.
@@zaczane Not me (I hope), but like 99% of skeptics are, yes.
@@stephenjenkins7971 yeah I wasn’t trying to say you specifically were doing it wrong. But the people who you were describing talking about the Russia/Ukraine war.
But I can see how the @you name might have made it seem like I was saying you yourself were bad at it which is not what I was trying to say
Too many Americans love nostalgia but hate history. Thank you for teaching history!
Revisionist history
We must know history to identify revisionist history.
@@JB-mm5ff very true. However we have written, oral, physical, archeological and scientific ways of confirming historical truths. Even some memories as poor as that may be. Lol
Which makes it easy for them to fall prey to charlatans, like this author.
@@RichardChappell1 many people have gotten over the fact that many of their ancestors where soulless, evil, rapist, and child molesters who lived off of the sweat Capital of others. Many learn to understand their history, place it in proper context and move on to live healthy productive lives. Others cry when their heritages history is not handled with white silk gloves. They want the Winnie the Pooh version AKA nostalgic version
I was fortunate enough actually to have this taught to me in eighth grade for American History. The teacher taught us never to believe things were as simple and clean as the history books told us, and people found loopholes to continue atrocities wherever they could. I'm realy grateful for her; she was an amazing teacher.
Professor Tony Martin - The Jewish involvement in the slave trade.
This topic is sadly worse of and more confusing after this video. This due to the ignorance of the writer’s obvious bias for victim thinking instead of rational thinking and consequence based thinking. The majority of slaves lived in the south the majority of slave owners where in the south. The majority of southerners where from the poorest parts of Britain, this culture was distructive in the poor parts of Britain and likewise in the south. This culture was forced up on the slaves which then propagate it further. This can be sown in the way today black people speak English and the way today descendents from the poor parts of Britain do or did. This culture is what gives way for the inequality. If this wasn’t the case new Africans to the Americans Nigerians for example who do a hell of a lot better. This in the framework for America being racist doesn’t make sense logically. So the 1619 project and therefore this video.
Personall note I find it sad that people like this UA-camr with lots of viewers don’t try to find mistakes in their logic like this. Thomas Sowell I such a savior for all of the Americans. Knowing better just made us know less, that might be the perfect allegory for these type of “mistakes” in logic.
@@DarthVader1977 This topic is sadly worse of and more confusing after this video. This due to the ignorance of the writer’s obvious bias for victim thinking instead of rational thinking and consequence based thinking. The majority of slaves lived in the south the majority of slave owners where in the south. The majority of southerners where from the poorest parts of Britain, this culture was distructive in the poor parts of Britain and likewise in the south. This culture was forced up on the slaves which then propagate it further. This can be sown in the way today black people speak English and the way today descendents from the poor parts of Britain do or did. This culture is what gives way for the inequality. If this wasn’t the case new Africans to the Americans Nigerians for example who do a hell of a lot better. This in the framework for America being racist doesn’t make sense logically. So the 1619 project and therefore this video.
Personall note I find it sad that people like this UA-camr with lots of viewers don’t try to find mistakes in their logic like this. Thomas Sowell I such a savior for all of the Americans. Knowing better just made us know less, that might be the perfect allegory for these type of “mistakes” in logic.
@@arguebitte672 stop spamming the comments.
@@janedoe3516 you do have a point
My parents fled southern terrorism in the mid 50’s. Whenever mom would take us kids on a train ride back ‘down home’ as she called it, to visit grandma. I saw men on mounts, dressed in confederate uniforms, doing civil war reenactment. It was terrifying!
Granny’s house sat next to train tracks. Every night around 2 or 4 a train would come roaring by at top speed. Her home was a shack that would shake at the passing of those trains. You could see the outside through the walls and floor. No indoor plumbing, it was a one room shack with an outhouse ands potbelly stove she cooked on and warmed the shack with. Don’t have to go in the middle of the night, there was no lights and you never knew what was crawling around outside. I had no idea I was black until we took a stop in Tennessee on the way to Georgia. I was not allowed to drink from a certain fountain. I could go on and on about my experiences, but you get the point. Because of this video, I was compelled to share.
I know many may laugh at these 3rd world conditions in the riches country on earth, but I don’t care. Racism is a way of life here, till this day! I don’t expect empathy from evil folks. But, just know, the reparations America owes us will be exponentially more when you finally realize you must pay it.
Civil War reenactments are terrifying? You've never been through that. You have no reason to call it terrifying. 🤦🤦🤦 That's like calling a movie terrifying because they had civil war actors in it. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
@J.C… not terrifying in the manner of fearing for your life, but terrifying in the sense that you realize that all the people around you are reenacting a war in which they were specifically fighting to keep your ancestors in bondage. that’s what’s terrifying
Justice delayed is often justice avoided (by the responsible parties) . Worse yet besides typical delays, most lawsuits are summarily dismissed for being more than 2 years old. But the "authorities " have no such statute of limitations for "noteworthy" crimes prosecutions.
9989o8
@@J.C...You obtuse buffoon.
I actually learned about Neoslavery not from a history teacher but from my 8th grade Math teacher. This is because a black student called another the hard r and she decided to teach us why the word was not to be used. She taught us about how her grandfather was a slave even though slavery had been abolished and worked 12 hours a day to try and make ends meet at a plantation
What a based teacher, I hope those kids learnt from that
what's the hard R? you mean N word?
@@nexenojustice552 yes
R=racist, i think@@christigoth
the hard "R" means the "n" word ending in "er" rather than the version ending in "a"@@christigoth
I’m an Indian living abroad and my son is in American school. I wanted to teach him American history and I clicked on the video. An absolute eye-opener!! Nothing different from our very own caste system.. Power and greed leads to inhuman behavior. I don’t know how much I can teach and reveal to my son, but I know better than before now. Thanks a ton. 🙏🏻💐
How is the caste system going nowadays in India? Better, worse, same?
@@tntstorms7969 lot better, laws are strict and there is reservations for jobs and colleges to help uplift them
@@kishmishhkoul2844 So is the caste system eliminated? I was under the impression that Hinduism was the reason for the caste system being that you were born to your condition and caste and not being mobile. What laws are you referring to being strict? And are they strict as in prohibiting the caste system from existing?
@@tntstorms7969 Hinduism never was the reason for it actually. The books said that your work would define your caste not the way you were born for example a teacher having the highest position after that the soldiers and so on. but well, greediness of the men in power ultimately disgraced the whole thing.
While for the reservations its really helping, representation is now in large percentage ofcourse , and discrimination laws are pretty strict with people even getting convicted for life in more severe cases.
I wouldn't say the caste bias is gone completely ,it is not practised but it's their, i have seen it even in my own family.
however the times are changing and more people are fighting for the rights. Intercaste marriages were taboo 20-25 years ago however it's pretty common nowadays with interfaith marriages on the rise as well.
@@tntstorms7969 Er, me thinks you do not fully understand the way in which the which Caste system came about and it’s structure; I suggest you read a book by Isabelle Wilkerson.
Some stories of this extension of slavery survived within black families. You tell the average person about it and they try to convince you that it was just the regular prison system at work. When I was born, a few Civil War era slaves were still alive. It had to be painful for them to see their children and grandchildren grow up to be subjected to fates every bit as cruel as what they had experienced.
Prison slave labor still exists today. Over 100 corporations use slave labor. It has always been about the rich exploiting the most vulnerable and they didn't in reality care what color you were but the evolutionists started the debate painting black people as sub standard. The rich have and always will use any excuse to exploit the poor or disadvantaged and in the process use any means to divide and conquer those that have little power. I grew up in a mixed race church and we are to love ALL people.
It still is.
This is why i hate when people say "Whats the point of knowing about History"
Because all this stuff can happen and will happen again if left alone and without any knowledge. On top of that it gives us ao much information on what to do and not to do in the future when it comes to legislation, judicial issues, and so much more important factors that can effect our everyday life
Morelike who controls the history. If you havent noticed yet muraca was created by big greedy companies that are still runing the show. Railroad,pharma,oil and their lackeys in congress.
Agree 💯%, BUT affect vs. effect: affect is the verb (think “a for action”) and effect is the noun. Sorry -couldn’t let it go 😉
@@babeena_gt_3645 no they didn’t. Effect is a noun. The verb is affect.
@@babeena_gt_3645 No look it up
No it wont
Behind the Bastards did a great couple of episodes on the KKK. The resurgence of the second KKK would be hilarious if it weren't so horrifying. It was basically a pyramid scheme selling white robes.
Behind the bastards? Is that a channel? If so can you link it or the video you’re talking about
@@chrismackall467 It's a really good podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts from, I think. I listened on spotify
Amazing podcast!
they give candies to kids to recruit them now ya know
The KKK pointed hats remind me of dunce caps.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the history they are trying to protect. My father was a history teacher. When we moved to America. Every time he helped us with homework, he told us his blood pressure was about to go up. He taught us the real American history. So we study the myth to pass the test.. thank you for this video, and I had to share it.
Spencer Haywood a former all-star who played on the showtime Lakers (briefly 1980), grew up as a sharecropper, he said his family was held basically as slaves and threatened with death if they ran away...He said when he started to grow and get bigger (he grew up to around 6'8") he was falsely accused of murder and sent jail for a night, his mom realized that they might be trying to keep on the farm perpetually so after he was released she found a way to get him out so he could live and survive with a family member in Chicago. He's still alive today, still talks about that time, says whether it was called slavery or not it definitely felt like real slavery to him.
i've argued for years that sharecroppers were actually worse off than actual slaves because the landowner had no vested interest (sizable purchase price) in the "free" sharecroppers and so had little interest in the health, housing and care of their tenants.
My father and his family grew up sharecropping. He was born in 1950. He only got away from it when he left home at 15 to live with his older brother.
The legal system must protect one group without binding them while binding another group without protection. That’s the conservative/confederate way.
@@jessestreet2549 well it's essentially serfdom rather than slavery
@@jessestreet2549 my teacher said the same point the other day. With slavery, the owners had some reason to keep the slaves alive due to the money they spent on them. But with sharecropping and convict labor, the victims would regularly be worked to death
I knew someone whos family "employed" "help" on their plantation theyve owned since the antebellum days. Apparently theyve recently started paying them in more than just "food and housing"
Retired history teacher here. Excellent work. I taught Texas history, which is clearly based on legends and tall tales.
Yeah, went to school in Texas.. you live it in Texas. Expecially if you are Native American.
Honestly the intended purpose of it was so that an American born and raised Texan can, if need be practically recite the whole American history book, while presenting the colors and retiring the colors daily...in a dare I say "due process" fashion to free one another from injustices and illegal slavery.
Imagine finding out in your late 30s, AFTER marking that you are American Native on all standard educational documents, and licensing that you are not native American, but rather only a natural born American.
All history is based on white versions of their story. Whoever wins the wars writes the history RIGHT so don't act shocked and stop shitting on TX like that bullshit history was just told down south 🙄
Absolutely love the Alamo
100% Texas history was so easy for any Texan to ace bc it's just a constant glorification of Texas the entire time 🥴
As a Texan born and raised, it is an absolute shame that our state (which probably has the most interesting history of any state) does a horrid job of teaching its history.
I never even learned about Black Codes. You've made it so much easier to understand why such important history isn't taught in schools. And how critical it is that people today know it
Same
I was shown the movie Glory and that was it.
It’s taught in our schools here in Chicago, but not when I was in school
I went to school in Appalachia in the 90's we learnt most of what was in this video. Though I didn't know the extent the peonage system had been in practice. I also thought it had ended in the 1920s. I'm surprised at the comments section here. I thought everyone knew this stuff. Whilst I think they need to keep CRT at college level I also think they need to teach this as well. They also need to teach about the banana republics and the assassinations. Everyone needs to know just how despicable corporations and businesses can be when left to their own devices. If anyone needs to be taught why we need regulation, it's this kind of shit that needs to be pointed out.
@@Drebin2293 What does clothes have to do with this?
“Standard American History Myth” is such a perfect term! It’s straightforward, yet describes a massive, shared educational experience.
And conservatives insist on it obsessively and get pissed off if you say so. That's why even the idea 'critical race theory' terrifies them so much.
Yes. And its' inaccuracy.
@@grmpEqweer because they're racist and don't like admitting it.
Should be Standard History of America Myth just so it can be shortened to SHAM.
Every country has its own "national myth". I can very well recite the "Standard Mexican History Myth" from memory. It may change a bit with the years but the essence remains the same.
Wow, I’ll be turning 76 in November and after viewing your black history lesson on “Neo-slavery” the part I skipped, I’m very thankful that I took the time to get caught up on what I should have already known by now. As a kid growing up under the parenting of an angry single mom, divorced with two children, myself and a 4 years younger sister, with no real father figure in our lives, latchkey, we experienced some really difficult times growing up. What made matters worse was my mom was a very attractive, racially mixed up black lady, (often being mistaken for a “white” woman), and it still was difficult for her (with only a high school education) to get a good paying job, she did domestic work on the weekends, to make ends meet, often leaving us alone. Due to our mom’s long hours, often there wasn’t anyone home to ask questions or help us with our homework, so homework eventually took a back seat to TV. Unfortunately, getting a good education was not my top priority, and eventually I got swept up during the Vietnam draft. It’s because of my mixup ancestry, (my grand father was a Pullman porter and was able to buy some land in Tennessee and own a dry goods store…and folks couldn’t figure out just how much of our black “tainted” blood he had in him, but he was able to maneuver around all the hate and ugly of Jim Crow. I grew up in south-central Los Angeles and didn’t experience all the harsh discrimination of the south. I admire my black brother’s and sister’s whose families overcame their oppression and went on established most of the acclaimed black colleges in the south, while still fighting racial injustice in America. Let’s get out and vote for Harris and Walz and a Democratic down ballot ticket!
history teacher here, currently teaching a new African American history curriculum in high school and I am talking about a lot of the things you bring up, but this is an excellent narrative with new stuff that I can incorporate and learn from. Thanks for such a comprehensive video
Add Blackmon's book to your reading list. It's great
@@Praisethesunson Slavery by another name? I will add it to the list.
What state? I’m kinda interested to know.
again you lie. the MAJOR reason for the war was the rich scum wanted more power. they used the LEGAL way to get out of the system by invoking states' rights.
Black Slave Owners by Larry Koger.
Man, I’m an African American who loves history, and for me to not know this……it hurts. The fact that schools barely teach this is disgusting. I’m glad you taught me this though. Thank you. 🙏🏾
They don’t want white people to look bad…
It’s a pity that teaching real history has become “criminal". CRT became a boogeyman though it isn’t taught to undergraduates. Because stupid people don’t usually go to college, they’ve nothing to fret about.
I appreciate how thorough this video was. I remember being so inspired by the Underground Railroad, and slaves fighting for freedom, and civil rights and all that. I absolutely loved the idea that all Americans were equal, but when I got into the real world as an adult, I was grossly disappointed, and continue to be more and more every single day. Realizing that everything I was taught was twisted as propaganda (“white washed” some say) has been so painful. I hope someday our children will have the nation that WE were promised, and that all of those beautiful men, women, and children lost their lives for.
Most people dont even know that the African Kings and Queens started the African slave trade. They literally rounded up their own people and created the slave trade. There was black slave owners in America. Africans also invaded and enslaved millions of white Europeans. I believe these things arent taught to the people because it would help all of us understand something that would change everything. Its not about black vs white. Its about good vs evil. Good people should reject race politics. The people that accept all this racial propaganda are fueling this deception and division.
@@thetruthispotenza3602 I would definitely be interested to learn more about this. Do have anything you can suggest to me (documentaries, books, articles, channels, etc)? Even some Native Americans had slaves. You are correct though, it’s about good versus evil, and that the racial propaganda is fueling deception and division. Much love. 💜💜💜
Good job! There is absolutely no reason for you to feel "guilty" for the fact that you were lied to. You are now telling the truth and that is what counts. Good for you!
Agreed!
I mean, it’s human- his feeling burdened about having mislead so many kids
Teaching someone the wrong thing really weighs on you
It can be outweighed by teaching more people the right thing but still 💜
Honestly as a black man I can say that I learn quite a lot from this video and I appreciate the truths
Every other video you all say "as a black man" it is so weird.
@@AnnaKred-u8ryou’re one step away from saying “you people” why not go the whole way and stop pretending you’re not a seething racist?
Imagine how Africans view you guys. Lost without a tribe or language
@@AnnaKred-u8rwhy does it matter? that’s literally not important. Just itching to be offended by something
@@dabrayshastitt9289It matters because it's a common tactic by white people with black profile pictures.
Wow, this explains why American history after the civil war was soooo boring. Probably because all the drama was left out and replaced by little smiley faces. Thanks for giving me the history I missed.
How was it entertaining b4 the civil war then? U mean having slaves and mistreating them was fun?
omg, there was sooo much deadly drama and so much danger afoot, and yes, it is taught as so dull and dry.
When you cover the drama parents will freak out about how "woke" it is to acknowledge the black codes and Jim Crow
Right. I just thought it stopped at Jim Crow and Mass incarceration but then it was actually much worse.
@@DianaCHewitt it’s funny how they turn the word “woke” into some into something negative. And when I say they, I mean Fox News.
Those literacy tests were no joke. We took the test in AP US History. The teacher offered extra credit to anyone who passed. Only 5 out of 75 people passed. That was the easier test. The extreme test version had no one pass as you would need a near perfect memory of US history, dates, and people.
perfect*
@@amistrophy purrfect
That is because the current state of education is pathetic!
@@garybradley5525 lmao tell me you didn’t actually watch the video without telling me you didn’t watch the video
@@garybradley5525 so imagine it back then.
A lot of people in the comments are mentioning how they essentially knew a lot of this prior to watching the video but I want to be honest and say this video was more informative then I would like to admit in particular in comparison to what I was taught. Don't be too proud to admit that you didn't know something particularly when the majority of our education system specifically avoids these truths. I thought share cropping was the main system used in the late 19th century and learning the extent of debt peenage was infuriating yet unsurprising.
Oh sure, i learned some new stuff watching this, but yeah, its not like i wasnt taught this sort of shit. It just either wasnt covered as extensively as this, or most kids didnt give a shit growing up. Some people treated history like a blow off course, especially if you werent taking AP courses.
Yeah, 4nt actually hit the nail on the head for what I think is true for the majority of us. I knew the vast majority of this shit from school and "independent studying" (see: randomly browsing through wikipedia sources on random topics that we've all done, don't try to deny). Sure, I don't have the explicit dates memorized, deep knowledge of the minute details, etc. and- even after watching this video- I still don't have those things memorized because they aren't important enough for general life.
Maybe I'm wrong, as I'm just guessing based on my own personal experience and interaction with people around me, but I think most people did already know the majority of things discussed in this video. There's nothing wrong with you if you didn't, its simply some historical facts you didn't know.
I think the issue is that, like with anything, you know the generals but are vague on the details. Some people may argue that not knowing the details means you don't know the generals, but I disagree. To me knowledge isn't just an "is" or "isn't" thing, but shades. Like, as a Korean-American, I consider the notion that anyone has simply KNOWN that Japan brutally occupied Korea before and during WW2 to be good enough and that the details are just garnish.
We all don't know the details of things which don't affect us as a person or as a member of a group... but to me it's enough that you know it happened at all.
Thank you Sir, indeed you are correct in your assessment, because if people knew so much on the subject as they say, why they are not willing to collectively push for change and yet they talk about equality, because they are only willing to benefit from slavery and the laws that was pass after the civil rights movement. There has been so many immigrants that came to this country after the civil rights movement to benefit from the civil rights movement laws. They try to speak as if blacks is crazy when we speak on the subject like opportunities is always there. If blacks won’t better opportunities in America, they either have to join the military or get high interest student loans to get an education. The education programs that will put a person in a good job is 3 times cost of other programs. The only reason the Democrats won’t to pass an immigration bill is because those immigrants will vote for the Democrats. It doesn’t has nothing to do with freedom. Kamala, nor Obama are not African Americans, they don’t represent us. They are not descendants of slaves who built the US economy. Our people have been systematically oppressed by these basis laws dating back to the beginning of this country. I grew up in Alabama and yes the Klan hung the last black man in 1981. The US government has pretty much protected the Klan the whole time. It took public outcry for those few men not all to be brought to justice. I say, gawd dam them Democrats/Republicans and gawd dam America.
Oh our educational system failed me to the point where I do know these things because I was removed in the 7th grade I hard to learn shit on my own not be fed it by "teachers".
RIP to all the victims of slavery and neoslavery
The worst part is with the prison system the way it is… plenty of the victims are still alive and stuck today
Neoslavery only stopped expanding but the problem was never undone, so millions still live in the areas effected that are still suffering
Does that extended to the Muslim world as well, where it's still thriving and legal?
@@GrumpyManateeit’s not the Muslim world.
@@DavisWilcoxof course stop the racism against blacks. But keep the Muslim hate goin. Typical!
"This version of history, otherwise known as what actually happened" Banger quote
I know more epic History-Video-Essays and Myth-Busting,
so let me recommend you Oversimplified, Bluejay, Second Thought,
Genetically Modified Sceptic and Some-More-News!
Some More News should really be highlighted cause hes excellent Coverage of all kinds of problems, as hes specialized on simply 'adressing and listing problems', which may make his Coverage seem 'random' but its not.
@@slevinchannel7589 Second Thought is based, I can also recommend Hakim and YUGOPNIK.
@@notoriusdrifter40 And Hbomberguy?
@@notoriusdrifter40 He and 'Some More News' are better at 'Presentation'!!
@@slevinchannel7589 oversimplified? Really? It's historymemes the youtube channel
It's somewhat terrifying that this just over hour video goes into far more detail than semester after semester of schools do. I had to learn most of it on my own, and yeah, it is upsetting, and horrifying, and very uncomfortable. But if we don't know, we can't do better. We don't have the tools to understand why things are the way they are when so much is glossed over or lied about - which is even worse when it really doesn't take all that long to dig into! Keep up the great work, glad the algorithm decided to bring this video up.
This omission of history feels quite deliberate. The obfuscation that the Confederacy fought for "states' rightz" is an easier pill to swallow when you don't mention that A.) slavery was one of those rights, and B.) all the practices after slavery that kept it going in all but name.
The real history of Black people in America is a history of the mistreatment of prisoners of war. It can not be told in history classes due to fear of said people finding out who they are. Their ancestors were not natrive to Africa but were prisoners of wars with Rome, England, Spain, Portugal and others. They were forced out of the Middle east and Europe and taken to Africa, from there some were brought to the Americas, the Carribean and other places as slaves. Black people in America are descendant of the Hebrew people of the Bible and this can not be taught in schools without offending and making liars of those who say they are Christains and Jews. It is the Christian Church and Jewish Synagogues that owes reparations for slavery and identy theift.
You hit the nail on the head with the feeling guilty for being white thing. I think that’s why so many people are afraid to open their eyes to racism because they just think “well I’m not gonna be guilty for being white!” when in reality you don’t need to feel any guilt as long as you’re not racist, you just need to acknowledge that it’s there and has been there. Very informative video
A lot of people like to cherry pick the smaller number of race activists and Twitter idiots who think literally all white people are racist and are consciously preserving their privilege. Those people exist, but they’re a convenient stereotype for other bad actors to use when they want to deflect from genuine race issues.
Can't be part of the solutions if we can't understand the problems.
What about minorities being racist? Racisms aren't limited to affirmative action law! This new woke is untrue! That law, when it was written, was only for the current minorities. Not a forever law. I grew up in the late 60s and 70s. I had seen some of this racism first hand! I was so glad that law was enacted! We needed it! But like always, it's been totally abused! I'll tell you what. If Dr. King had come out of his grave before the George Floyd protests and rioting. He would have been over joyed with the progress this country had made! But the new all whites are inherently racist is just ridiculous! There were bigots there are bigots and they're always will be bigots! But that is not what you are calling racism! Our children have been exposed to each other's culture for a while now! They didn't even realize for the most part of racism! Until recently it was like I said mostly bigots! But not just bigots who were white! Bigots of all races! And whether you like it or not being white is a race! And when you talk so negatively about white people then you are a racist also! Somebody needs to stand up and control The narrative of bit. They need to acknowledge that there has been racism in the past and there are possibly some residue of its still, but nothing like is being yelled out by minorities now! Like I said earlier I had experienced real racism! This black lives matter whole situation is just a exasperating the problem. Let's get our facts straight and the narrative straight and become one undivided country again!
And the kneeling during the anthem is disgraceful! Professional athletes have such a very wide avenue to be heard! I'm not against they're not believing in society yet I don't agree with, but have them go to the Arlington cemetery and have them kneel there in protest! Let them see why we are so offended! Let them see WHY people are so offended!
Also, what's with playing of the black national anthem? There is no black nation! There's the United States! Maybe someone who disagrees can tell me where this black nation is? Did the black slaves get freed because the black slaves rioted for their freedom? No! How many countless whites were killed in the civil war to help free the slaves! I have yet to hear anyone speak of this! And don't tell me that's not the case! If it were then they wouldn't be tearing down Confederate statues and changing names! So they do recognize that the South represented slavery in the North represented non-slavery! So go to these Union graveyards and kneeling protest there for the tens of thousands of white people who died in that war! Disrespect their part and freeing the slaves! Whites should not be blamed for everything in history! Especially when your history is wrong! Especially when the history you are presenting is wrong! When affirmative action took place, it helped to relieve the current leftover racism in America! By bringing this up all the time about 400 years a slave has just set back racism by 50 years! And when you speak of slavery, do you realize how many native Americans we're enslaved? And killed with diseases! And put on these reservations without weapons to hunt with and terrible land to be able to farm! Don't you think that needs to be acknowledged! So how is all lives matter being racist? There is nothing about that that is racist! BLM is racist! Also in American history there was a thing called indentured servants! Check your history! These people were shipped over from England and that area because the lower class in England were getting overwhelming! So they offered free passage and the promise of land to the United States! But most of them didn't understand was that their patch of land which they were promised, came with 7 years of their type of slavery! In fact native Americans blacks and whites of that poverty level sometimes stayed in the same places together! And these whites who came to America under those conditions had very strict rules against them! They were not a citizen so they had no voting rights, they were practically a slave for the the 7 years. They had absolutely no rights and were beaten and abused when they didn't give their property owners the food and stuff that they had made each year just like the old class system of barons and such in England! Did you know that they were forbidden to be married! And if they did become married then there indentary was added by 7 years and the women lost any rights of citizenship! And did you know if they had children, that the children would be indentured until the age of 20? So you can see the cherry picking minority movement! And no one living today has anything to do with that! That goes for the civil war the rights to vote and everything else to benefit minorities or suppress minorities! Heck half of the white population or more in this country were immigrants well after the civil war! So you cannot blame the entire white race for your history of 400 years of racism! That would take you back to the early 1600s! When the vast enslaved people were native Americans and low class whites! So please stop this nonsense! Stand together shoulder to shoulder as the human race! We can do so much good if we did not allow them to divide us! PS I'm sure that some may try to pick apart different things in this statement go right ahead! The meaning is there! And the general history is there! So forgive people of 400 years ago who enslaved many races! And those who argue about how great our founding fathers were, you can look back and see what their thoughts were! And if the time of history that they were living in! And how they left ways to make amendments to the Constitution because they knew society would change! Just like the freedom of the slaves, women and black rights to vote! Affirmative action! And the mixing of races within the last 40 plus years! So don't be part of that problem! Be a part of what Doctor Martin Luther King had envisioned! Of a rainbow coalition and peace between the races! Okay I hope this gives you a slightly different opinions on the current conditions! My statement here is not too flare up anymore racism is to get an understanding into move back towards the future that we have come since the affirmative action law! Peace and love to ALL!
@@Ikon55_ Holy shit dude I don’t know wtf you’re on but I didn’t even mention half of the random ass crap you put in your long winded rant about I’m not sure what… most of it sounded pretty racist though so… nice I guess? 😂 why are you talking to me like I’ve done all this stuff and am blaming white people??💀 Did you even read my comment 😂
Exactly, we really don't need or want y'all to be guilty, we just want you to get how race impacts us differently because of all of these different factors
Someone is going to see this title, type "woke" in the comments and never bother listening. This is the single most informative video I've ever watched on youtube. This should be played in every history class in every school every year until racism is dead. If youre saying racism will never die then you are seeing my point.
You are the reason rasism won't die. You and race hucksters, identity politics. People who can only be intrestesting based on victimhood. Try reading Thomas Sowell than UA-cam garbage as "the single most informative video I've ever watched" ugh.
@@AnnaKred-u8r Cry more. You cry victim when history is being taught. You don't deserve to have rights.
Agreed @@cat-le1hf
Wow - I knew all of this information though I am not American. It's sad how formal education can be developed to keep people from knowing the truth.
This video reminds of high-school.
I have always been a history nerd, and this was my teachers last year before retirement. So in the AP class, instead of doing the normal skit, he decided to change it up. At his (and my) last 2 weeks he went in depth about everything and anything about just how messed up America was. He was retiring and didn't care. He contradicted pretty much everything the school forced him to teach. Pretty much explained everything in this video, so 3 years later I look back to that, and I probably learned the most in those 2 weeks than I did throughout highschool.
That is a sad comment on the American public school system.
Thats fucken wild man, awesome
@@nacholibreriit’s actually the opposite. It shows us pretty well how MUCH the system actually works!
It would be foolish to believe that anything BUT this is intended. For the people it is horrible and bad, but for the system, for the government?
Ideal. What they planned out works! So why change it up?
I'm 60 and I learned more about this country in the last hour than in my lifetime. Thank you for telling it like it is and not sugar coating it.
Well.. If you interpret this as the truth without any critical questions involved.. then I can understand why..
@@moparman1692 and pray tell, what is your interpretation of the truth?
If one is not educated, why vote? They would NOT know what they were voting FOR! HOW IS THIS BAD?
@@tophatcat1173Sooo much is being skipped. If you’re a democrat or subscribe to communist ideology then these are the sources of the majority of what he’s telling you about. It’s propaganda, he’s inflaming the audience especially when he’s sharing what the Communist Party has done without recognition the past 100 years including the protests he referred
in more recent times, Sir James Goldsmith, back in the 1990's, actively protested against globalization. He said when you move factories to other countries, and import the goods, you destroy local jobs, and force local populations to go into debt to afford those imports. We are now living through the consequences of those policy decisions today.
Although this may be uncommon, my high school history teacher actually handed out those ‘literacy’ tests for us to take and failed all of us to make a point of how unfair it was
I had
this thought while watching. I'm glad at least one educator already does this.
I had a teacher that did this too. We did this first thing in class one day and he told us it would be part of our grade. Mr Vanenburg best history teacher I ever had
My teacher didn't do this, but when I took APUSH I actually looked at one (I believe it was a Louisiana one) and quickly saw exactly how unfair it was
Heck, in '60's Dallas (aka City of Hate) we used as a textbook, Texas History Movies, published by the Dallas Morning News in 1934, which was a racist Jim Crow graphic novel , still in print.
Black folks all held melons and Mexicans all sombreros.
And they wonder why we had issues.
My high school history teacher did a similar thing with old citizenship tests (I think passing the test was required for entry to the US but I'm not sure). I remember one of the questions to draw the utensils into an image. Easy right? Not if you're from an asian country and have only ever eaten with chopsticks or if your from a country that predominantly eats with your hands. It really taught me how these tests were purposefully designed to exclude non-white people.
When you revisit a topic you learned about in grade because your grade ten social studies teacher looked at the textbook, looked at us, and said "this book was written and mandated by the government, who were the winners. This has some truth to it, but not the whole truth, so im going to use it the vare minimum and instead teach you a whole lot more" (paraphrased)
Same teacher told everyone to stand up, and everyone did, because there was an expectation that we listened to teachers, and then he questioned why we listened to him. 10/10 teacher, so glad i got a really good education
I feel part of why the redeemer era(1870-1914) gets so little coverage is that it paints an even darker image of America than even going into depth on slavery. The abolition of slavery as a bookend is a happy ending of where things were horrible and got better, a moral ark of history where America may be a flawed nation but inevitably makes progress.
The redeemer era shows that to be false, the bad guys won through unrelenting backlash and violence, and in the end rolled back progress for nearly a century. For this they died not as villains, but largely seen as heroes in a world they had successfully made in their darker image. Multiple generations lived and died in the century it took for African Americans to regain the rights they should have had in 1866.
That is not to say that progress is impossible, but that is to say that there is no guarantee of progress.
Absolutely correct. I would just add a little tiny thing onto that: It is not impossible for something similar to happen again. Even among the people that you say that you follow, or the leaders of your political parties or whatnot, do not be afraid to ask questions, and to consider the full long-term affects of what they are doing.
I've pointed out how people in both parties have been manipulated into voting against their own interests, because the person with the D or R attached to their name say the things they want to hear.
@@BeyondtheBlade Most people voted for Sleepy Joe because he's not Trump. Now the gas prices are thru the roof, (Oh, Democrats are for the people, not the 1%, they say, so then why are the oil barons profiting? Hmm?) And Czar Vladamir the 1st of the New Mother Russia wants WW3.
@@CrazyBear65 It is only due to Joe Biden that I am able to make this prediction:
Donald Trump will be vindicated by the history books as one of the greatest US presidents, if only because Joe Biden, at least for the time being, appears to be absolutely inept, weak, and feckless.
If Donald Trump had won his second term, he would have likely been seen as one of the most chaotic and terrible presidents.
@Quinn P This comment should be pinned.
As a 16-year old who recently learned about the WW2 era and de-segregation, I could tell something was wrong but obviously didn't know what since I wasn't taught anything else. This video really helped set things straight for me, and you put it so clearly even a kid can understand. Thank you for making this video, more people need to see this.
and that's what they "gov't" doesn't get. This younger generation is not stupid and it doesn't matter what you look like but as long as they can feed the lies, they will. I'm glad that you came across this video as well. You can continue to enlighten yourself by educating yourself b/c their goal is to keep individuals like you in the dark.
If you want, try to find out what Jefferson said about those coming into the country with nothing to offer but the labour of their hands.
I can't accurately remember the radio programme made by the BBC but I think it was something along the lines that they don't count as people.
@@KAYSLIF3350 Many politicians over time and space complain about 'Immigration'.
Others say that we are short of young workers. One of the reasons given for the fall of the Roman Empire is the lack of citizens prepared to do the jobs down at the bottom of the pile that the society depended upon.
@@KAYSLIF3350 "0.001% of slaves weren't black, therefore slavery isn't a black issue!"
10/10 logic 👍
@@brianvanroy1528 By all means, explain what bearing the fact that people of any skin color could be taken as slaves in war, or sell themselves into slavery, in the Roman empire has on the issue of chattel slavery of Blacks in the United States. But please, let me get some popcorn first.
I was one of the "hippies" referenced by Nixon's man. I never broke a law or joined a demonstration, but I was a very effective advocate. I was harassed by police, and couldn't get a job, even though I had a college degree. What I am saying I saw the horrors of the war on drugs and how the law was applied. I saw how police used, and are still using no knock searches to intimidate, and at times assassinate their target, and that most of the time the target was black or brown. I saw how the war on drugs helped create and empower the cartels just like prohibition produced organized crime. I saw how the police were all over some street kid selling crack while downtown I saw several businessmen cram into a toilet stall blowing powder while a cop was using a urinal.
It's one big crime syndicate, greed and crime will get you to the top, but you need another narrative to give plausible deniability. Nixons Narrative explanation was no anomaly, it's SOP. standard operating procedure, it's worse than Mob activity and deadlier
The biggest problem has always been the rich on the poor. The more they could make white fight black and black fight white the more they could divide the people and accomplish their goals.
Drugs are legal in Seattle WA....how's that working out for them?
@@313-v9k stop. the problem is the blatant sentencing disparity between "black" vs "white used substances. think for more than 2 seconds about this topic, as uncomfortable as it may make you.
@@313-v9k If you think legalized drugs is the only problem with Seattle, you haven't met anyone from ANY other part of the state of Washington.
Thank you for updating my education on this topic as I was wonderfully under-educated in Alabama, especially because I was never given an actual US history course, because in the AP program, you take European History the year they taught American history in the non-college credit classes so I only learned about the colonies and then jumped back across the pond after Independence. This was 20 years ago now, so it's possible things have changed from the way things were then but as much as I had learned on my own since, there were still some things I hadn't come across. I am so grateful you're making this information available and I have shared this with several people already. 🙏🙀😿
The "we elected a black man as president," thing is literally just "I have a black friend," for the whole government.
And the black guy that they elected was mixed raced and raised by/around nothing but white people. Had to make sure he didn't have a chip on his shoulder.
More like "hey, a black overseer!"
No. Friends are equal. You don't vote for friends to have power over you
And a racist would never have a black friend so...
@@KrepsyKthey’re always lying and say they do. It’s more than likely a coworker that actually talks to them in work environments only
As a UK person, I remember covering the American civil rights movement in school for exams, (conveniently circumventing Europe/Britain's involvement in the unit title I know), and we all were taught the same timeline you were. But it's good to find a channel like yours, learning never stops
I didn’t know people in other countries learn about that
@@f1rek1ller-56 seeing as america basically influences all western powers it's quite normal to learn a little bit about them we never covered anything in Australia though
@@f1rek1ller-56 most countries learn global history not just history pertaining to their country.
@@nurse941 americans don't
I will say though as someone who is probably a bit older (36) and grew up between the UK and New Zealand, I didn't get to learn any of this at school.
Debt Peonage isn't even "neo-slavery", it's classic slavery on the rocks. In Roman times this was called 'Nexum' - debt slavery. Not always of oneself, but sometimes of one's family; it was less targeted, and I want to say involved less trumped up charges and traps to keep one in the system and whatnot, but I can't say that in good faith.
This wasn't like slavery. At other periods in human history, we'd absolutely have called it slavery.
The ancient Greeks used debt peonage to justify why they got to keep their slaves.
Comparing slavery in the US with slavery in the classical era isn't very productive. Societies were quite different. For example, a person wasn't a unit in the eyes of the law (law being much less developed in general). You could collect a debt from someone's family or friends. Also money was less ubiquitous. Working off a debt was a very common and reasonable arrangement for lower class people. And lastly, slavery in classical societies spanned a very wide range. From prisoners of war being worked to death, to people voluntarily entering slavery to be apprentices to the master.
@@darkmater4tm I'm not comparing slavery the entire institution and it's impact on society, I'm comparing Debt Peonage. Which in Classical Times we - and they - called slavery, because it is an was.
@@darkmater4tm Yet what you said makes the comparision valid because there was people that worked to death and those and chose to appease their masters. This what I cannot stand Slavery just didn't happen in the US. Hell it was happening then your euro nations it's why a lot of people fled their country to comes over here. So they wouldn't be such, even if they ended up repeating the past by not understanding it.
This is also why people understand a lot of laws aren't for the rich it's to leak money from the poor. The pricing for fines can get crazy.
I love how the United States has always been about slavery and there has never been a day where slavery did not exist in the US.
And to be more accurate, it is just as funny how 1860-1945 was the transition to prison slavery by making it so that black could be slaves everywhere by every single measure possible (black codes and debt peonage) and then we exclusively switched to prison slavery.
Thank you so much for this information. I am 72, have a college degree and I had heard of most of this only in passing. No one ever explained this through-line and I am embarrassed and ashamed of myself and our educational system. It explains institutional slavery. I am in your debt for this.
'But, you have a black friend you can't be racist '
and bet they didn't tell you irish were 1st slaves and (indentured servitude) were white Irish and the 1st african slave arrived by accident in 1619. Irish were way way cheaper than africans. mainly african were indentured servants like the irish, so served 7 years of slave labour. the 1st lifelong african slave was owned by Anthony Johnson 1654 who was a black man. yes you heard right and he mainly owned white irish slaves.
@@valleyboy3613 I am Irish, mostly, and am well aware of the many English and Irish slaves in the Mediterranean area long before America had any. I am also aware of the Irish indentured who were all but slaves long before Africans were brought here as slaves. Still, most of the information in this video was new to me. Thank you, too, for this information. Apparently I am not as educated as I thought, and I am grateful for everything I learn that is new to me.
I have an honest sincere question - I didn’t know most of this either - and assuming that this man has represented these bits as accurate truth - why would you feel “guilty” did you participate or get anything from these folks - most everything he’s pointed out stopped 60 years ago
@@MaxMeridius0920 I was never taught any of this history. I feel embarrassed and ashamed that I didn't see through this, and that I didn't understand how many lies I was taught, and how I participated in systemic racism generally. No, I don't know of anything racist I particularly did, nor my parents, who taught me that black and brown people were my equals. I never saw them be unkind to a black person, but I did see their slight air of condescension. I grew up thinking that was the worst that black people experienced. I am ashamed that I wasn't a more open confederate to those fighting for their rights.
I didn't realize round 2 slavery was waaaay worse than round 1.
Using the they're criminals myth and eugenics really helps explain why segregation was so widely accepted/permitted at the time. It always confused me why the North bought into it.
Lethe. V It wasn't worse, let alone way worse. It was still bad, but comparing it to actual slavery is like comparing the current war in Ukraine to the Nazi invasion and occupation of Ukraine in WW2.
@@simonphoenix3789 you missed something. you should have waited until at least min 47 before commenting. How is Georgia this time of year?
@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster It was a joke that went over your head.
We always want to see progress and sometimes a little too impatient with our own family. Then not even to consider our friends or the other people in our community. By what I mean is it more important that I become as rich as Elon or that everyone that works for a successful company should not need government assistance along with their salary to make ends meet?
I wonder how many times we look at the price of goods and services and say I'm not racist
I'm only 2 minutes in, but I just want to point out what a missed opportunity that acronym is. It totally should've been name the Standard History of America Myth (SHAM)
It's beautiful
Hearing about Charles Bledsoe was truly heart-shattering.
_Mobile, Alabama was my birthplace._ October of 1941 places that man's actions to after my grandparents were born, long after federal law supposedly abolished slavery - hell, my grandfather is *still alive to this day!* I can only imagine the horror that would wrap across his face to know this happened within his own lifetime.
I truly, sincerely, fucking _profusely_ thank you for this video. I've been well-aware that American history has been watered down, but even I wasn't prepared for this.
My great grandmother is still alive and was born in 1924. I knew slavery ended much later than 1865 but just how far away....mind blowing and eye opening.
And we have been brainwashed this entire time and flooded with propaganda daily.
We are no better than the Soviet Union except perhaps only better in the maintenance of the illusion of freedom
@@davidguyette2586 yes, have you seen 13th (written and produced by Ava DuVernay)? If you haven't I would suggest that for further viewing.
@@MissSimone02 Yes! My great grandmother was a slave to.. it shocked me!
@@rawfermews4186 my great grandmother wasn't a slave but I don't know a lot about her life before she moved west to California. She's from Kansas.
"But I can assure you, no child is learning about anything I've talked about during this video." (around 1 hour 14 minute mark). Well, there is one now, and that would happen to be me. Great video, I told my father, who is also a former history teacher about this stuff, and he essentially knew nothing as well.
I have been waiting for someone to REALLY do this subject justice the way you did. Thank you sooo very much for putting this video together. I hope you continue to tell American/human History as it was 🙏🏿 * PS This is my first time ever leaving a superthanks for any video
i have literally never seen a superthanks before, thats cool
Whys this a different colour
What do you mean telling American history how it was, what's actually changed?
What is this and what are you selling lol
@@loturzelrestaurant So you tell me, what has changed?
I was born in deep rural Georgia and I remember when the 1996 Olympics were held in Atlanta. It was the first time I even heard that there were people who thought some in Atlanta were racist. I recall being confused and then indignant. For surely I would have seen it before, right? I mean, I was a white 18 year old female born and raised here, went to a mega southern Baptist church, and attended a Christian high school. Who better to know about such things than me?? I remember loudly condemning interracial couples because no one was thinking about how hard it must be for the poor mixed children. I'm still embarrassed by my sheer racist stupidity. If you're not from here it can be hard to understand how much of the racial divide is purposefully ignored. Thankfully, I looked beyond the truth I was told and did my own work to know better. As fate would have it, I'm married to a funny, handsome, and talented Black man who is an insanely gifted voice actor. When we aren't having a blast with our 3 mixed children, we run a production studio with a focus on getting more diversity in cartoons, video games, audiobooks, and other media. People can be reached and educated. Don't give up!!! 💕
Believe me when I say that racist crap was taught to Black children in Christian schools. I was fortunate enough to attend a church where mixed couples, with their mixed race kids were members, and it was interacting with them on Sundays that broke through the lies of the southern Baptist school curriculum
There’s no shame in being wrong, only in persisting in a state of willful and harmful ignorance
And then everyone gave you the clap.
👍🏻
@@warlordofbritannia Yes there is when it affects black people lol. It’s good to grow as a person but take responsibility for the affect of your actions.
@@rawfermews4186 What better way to "take responsibility" than to grow, learn and be better? What good does an apology do if you continue in your ignorance?
Kind of tangential but slavery also is very prevalent in Dubai (and other places I'm sure, but I'm more informed on this one). There's an entire pipeline of people in India going to Dubai to get opportunity and upwards financial mobility only to get there, get their passport taken and work as basically slaves who don't get payed for months if at all. No guarantee that they will ever get back to their families. My dad worked there for a few years and the conditions are appalling, glad he was lucky enough to get out.
Yep, it's very much a thing throughout much of the middle east. It's just a very different Type of slavery from the American kind most are familiar with, largely because even within the context of four thousand years of written history of slavery the kind practised into the mid-19th century in America is one of the worst kinds there ever was. Modern Middle-Eastern slavery is closer to the kind of stuff the united states was practising into the 1970s.
Chinese slavery is bad.
Americans are in love with their victimization as if they get "brownie points" for every group they fall under that makes them a victim or an unappreciated minority. Telling them that their are unfair things in other parts of the world steals their limelight and they will hate you for it
Wow wow cowboy!! Only American black slaves matter in this world! Stop trying to educate an start indoctrinating like this guy right hesr
In China and around Asia too, many of the scammers from there are actually slaves, entire building full of them inside guarded complexes, and the police there ignores it even though they clearly know about it. The BBC did a documentary on it.
Thanks! So grateful for the information. If there was a printable timeline of these atrocities, with a little context, I’d purchase it.
Something similar to neo-slavery happens in the gulf states nowadays. Worker from South-Asia arrive in countries like Qatar and the UAE, and often have to sign contracts which they know little about and their passports are taken away, essentially trapping them. After that, they're often horrible exploited, having to do tough labor in harsh conditions. Often times they are debt-trapped as well. All of this just to make some money to support their families back at home, young men leave their countries. And when they die, the debts sometimes get sent back to the parents at home who are struggling to make ends meet. It is actually quite unnerving how many similarities there are. I guess we still have a long way to go.
Oh noes! B-b-but CNN, and Knowing Better, tell me that the USA is de worstestest EVAR! How can it be?
It’s almost like, as you point out, there is actual barbarism and savagery in this world, so much in fact that we DON’T have to burn time inventing and pretending it exists in the USA.
Remember. Jussie Smollett’s would-be assassin still walks free.
That’s terrible! I’m really sorry to hear that.
This particular type of slavery if I'm not wrong is called 'Indentured Servitude', basically what happens is its a kind of labor contract where the person voluntarily works without pay with food and shelter provided in exchange for paying off some sort of debt or service that has been given to them. Generally its meant to be a more tame type of slavery with clearly defined limits as to what they will be doing, how they will be treated and for how long they will be working, as its voluntary on part of the worker in question though as for how it happens in Qatar and the UAE it is practically abduction akin to what was previously done to Africa with the slave trade.
A example of which is with some colonists used to get to the America's, these particular colonists would use these sort of contracts to get to the Americas or where they wanted to go in exchange for providing the ship or affiliates of the ship a service. A example of which could be quite simple such as offering to work as a kitchen aid or helping the crew clean the ship while in other cases they might work as something a bit more demanding such as a railway constructor or in a general labor position much like more normal slaves.
We still have a long way to go? You mean in Qatar right?
Is the situation worse or better for these workers in South Asia? I'm genuinely curious of why they would leave in the first place to such countries.
As a German (who was taught very little about USA's past) this makes much more sense and actually explains the current state of affairs in the USA better than the bite-sized stories like the BetterU one I've heard most often. Really good video!
I'm South African, the old Apartheid government did some pretty horrible things too, not just segregation. What do the U.S, Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa have in common? Eugenics and race science. Ideologically, the U.S and the Nazis weren't that different. Hell, American race scientists and politicians were very fond of Hitler in his day. In South Africa, we have a remnant party called the AWB, which is some alternative take on the Nazi party. If you Google it, you'll see what I mean. Point is that as a South African, what many people don't realise is that the history of these crimes against humanity goes much deeper and appears in much scarier places than one could imagine. Anything you could think of that the Nazis would spew about race was institutionalised as culture for a very long time here in South Africa. My grandfather still taught me that black people are inhuman and are that way because they carry the mark of Cain (which to the racist means that black people are destined to evil and must be extinguished). These evils run very deep and they exist where you don't expect them. Half of Europe agreed with Hitler, they just didn't like the idea of living under a German flag.
@@julianmcmillan2867 American race science created Hitler. He read all of their publications. He was then funded by Americans and Europeans during the war. He murdered the same people that funded him. None of this is hidden knowledge. All of the scientists ended up creating the nuclear, space, and medical space scientific advancements.
@@julianmcmillan2867 "Half of Europe..."
This is not so clear. Indeed a lot of people where more ambivalent about their thoughts. As an exemple, I remind the example of two jews who where hiding in a attic and protected by the concierge. When the food went to miss, near the end of the war, the concierge had to ask more bread to the baker that she could have from the tickets and explain why. The problem is that the baker was kinda... Antisemitic... and had expressed joy learning the "Vel d'hiv" raid. But, when she was asked by the concierge to help, she didn't say a thing to the germans nor Vichy milicia and gave her more bread... and a few candies for confort!
There is sometime a difference between what people say and what they do at the end, especially when confronted to the reality to have the power to kill someone they're in front of. People are better than what they think... Indeed?
@@greenfrog7578 , weird analogy tho... Doesn't that imply that the baker's ignorance to the fact that the concierge was hiding Jews in it attic their saving grace...? Either I'm reading your comment wrong cause that doesn't help your argument at all, in fact makes it soo much worse.
@@greenfrog7578 I agree. When I say half of Europe, I referred to the political landscape, the ideological landscape. Whilst the U.S was fighting in Europe black men were being lynched back home and black women sterilised. Same in South Africa. I do agree that what people say and what they do are two different things. For instance, my dad is a staunch racist, however, his actions speak otherwise. He will stop alongside the road to help a black family with their car, or a security guard and his wife get home because they had alot to carry and a far ways to go. I understand that, still the reality of that era is that the allies had alot more in common with Hitler than you'd think. They just didn't want to live under a German flag, and the U.S didn't even want to get involved until Japan attacked. After WW2, it took another ~30 years for people of colour to be awarded civil rights in the U.S. And it took another 50 years in South Africa. Today, in my community, I'm surrounded by people who say 'Hitler was right, we should have exterminated all of these pests'. These are the remnants from the apartheid era, and they're still very much alive and kicking.
My head is spinning. As a lawyer with 2 separate undergraduate degrees, I am shocked that NONE of this was taught -- at any time, in any school. Not even as part of law school. You've totally changed my mind and attitude towards reparations now. I need to watch this yet again. Thank you for making this video.
THE REASON NONE OF THIS IS TAUGHT IS SIMPLE THE SOUTH LOST SO WAS THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY
@@charlievane317 You're joking, right?
Quite the opposite: this bit of history was quietly erased, not forgotten. There are plenty of people who "remember" the Confederacy and celebrate "the lost cause" and "states rights" yet somehow they neglect to study this part. This knowledge wasn't "lost", it was buried because it didn't fit the narrative they wanted to push.
Quite frankly, NOBODY wants to teach lessons about how the rich and powerful have manipulated and mistreated the working class.
The issues of overinflated criminal charges, used to disenfranchise minorities? That's STILL happening, so of course "they" don't want it taught. Hell more and more prisons are being operated for-profit by corporations that are subcontracted by the government.
@@cymond And we've seen how very corrupt these privately owned "for profit" penal institutions can be.
@@allisonmarlow184 Yup. Suddenly prison is profitable again, so every kangaroo court conviction helps make somebody rich.
Many will wrongly call it CRT right now though.
Fabulous video. 🙌🏻🏆 I have ADHD and I watched the whole thing. Incredibly informative, educational, and eye-opening. I've NEVER been able to sit through long videos before. You are such a phenomenal educator and presenter. 🙏🏻💖 Thank you so much for teaching the truth. I learned AND ABSORBED a lot. 🕯️
I found a “labor contract” for my 3x great grandfather in South Carolina. Heartbreaking to know that after he was freed from slavery, he still ended up toiling in the fields. Thanks for making this video. So many people want to sweep history under the rug and cry that “critical race theory” teaches people to hate our country. The truth is we’re a country of wonders and horrors and we deserve to learn the truth about our past and how it shapes the present.
Dude, I am all for that. But critical race theory does just teach negativity and division.
Problem with us is that none of us can try to learn without picking a side and stamping on a label.
I'm pretty proudly Americana, but I don't call myself a conservative because that label sparks instant division and negativity.
We all just need to be people, and truth just needs to be truth. Everything else be damned.
@@loturzelrestaurant - ha-ha!
Don't forget "unF* cking the Republic" on podcast!
THEN… it would be a magnificent power to behold… along with some other personal selects… but that's my preference.
"we’re a country of wonders and horrors and we deserve to learn the truth about our past and how it shapes the present." That sums it up. I'm so sick of hearing that America is the greatest country in the world. There is no 'greatest country in the world.' And if there were, it wouldn't be America. But there are a lot of great things about it. So it should have the backbone to look at itself in the mirror.
@@konspiracy9895 teach negativity and division, or just point out a variety of selected information in an argument / ethnographic analysis - such as summed up in this video.
One could say this video is a result of “Critical Race Theory”, if the author had cited research and published this to a research review board.
Dont blame the methodology, rather blame the knee jerk biases people have, selective ignorance, or talking heads that try and shape narratives into their favor.
It's a matter that is not unique to USA or any nation. It is a human thing, which keeps proving what a strange species of animal we humans are. I blame nature.
Sir... this video made me cry. Your dedication to the purely educational aspects of all of this while being able to subsequently invoke powerful emotion through critical thinking and hopefully an inherent empathy for of inhumanity of it all propelled by greed in its purest form has made this video one of my top five ever. We should all just be better people and try to help uplift one another because only through that is true progression worthy of reach. Good work and I love you for it brother
exactly ...
When I was in 11th grade, we walked into APUSH class and the teacher immediately gave us a test. It wasn't over anything we had studied. The questions were strangely worded or basically indecipherable, some had no correct answer or didn't specify how to provide an answer. She told us that the test would determine 10% of our semester grade. Through the entire time, she was muttering that she knew we wouldn't know how to do the work and that we'd never pass the test. She'd scold us if we asked questions or spoke. Just treated us like idiots. Rushed us to finish, then collected all the tests.
That was how she introduced the topic of the literacy test to our class.
Incredibly traumatic to me, a very anxious and possibly neuro-atypical student, but also one of the lessons that left the greatest impression on me.
That’s a great lesson on the subject. Bringing history to the present through demonstration is one of the best ways to teach it.
Damn that is brutal. Imagine just sitting their questioning ur mental prowess while demeaning yourself bc u can’t get any answers correct.
God, my APUSH teacher was just classist and was never on unit with the other classes
@@P.cookie she was classist in both ways I guess
One of my history teachers did a very similar same thing, only he just gave people random grades on the test because some of the questions didn't really have a right answer. He then talked about the literacy tests and showed actual period tests that had a lot of the same questions on it. Of course the test wasn't for an actual grade.
I’m a 90s kid, at the time I went to school in Oregon I noticed the teacher (wht, old) would always mistreat the blck kids- she would get mad at them all the time, she would rip up their tests if she did that like it, etc. I was too young to understand why they were treated that way but I understand now that I’m an adult. Rsm will always continue to exist and people of color are still treated differently.
wow that's fucking awful did no one call her out on it?
Likely, everyone just stood and watched @@sBrCj
I'm from the Caribbean. In school, we learned all about the versions of neoslavery that existed here (apprenticeship, plantation tenantries, various Located Labourer acts). It's a wonder to me that this kind of stuff isn't readily taught in the USA.
Apprenticeship is kind of like internship. You work in exchange for learning. Plantation tenantry is serfdom. I'm unsure about 'various located labourer acts' unless you want to get into some weedy anecdotes.
None of those are actual slavery (ie. indefinite to permanent ownership of the person until they are sold or freed). Neoslavery is a conveniently imprecise modern buzzword.
Instead, learn the proper terms for these things, because they will actually tell you what they are. It's important to distinguish reality from naming convention (physis from nomen, ie.), don't you agree? That's why the names like 'serdom' are important, because they are the closest we have gotten to reality so far to describe these things.
We don't want to make white people feel uncomfortable.
@@james_chatman "certain people" being the white middle class
@@flyableheart no
It's weird for me as an American too because most of this was taught in my school (although way later than it should've been imo. Not until high school). Must be a state thing I guess.
As someone who studies convict leasing in Tennessee, this is a great video. Just a couple corrections:
1. Tennessee prisoners were NOT sent to Birmingham. They were leased to Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company (it's a little more complicated than that, but we can go with that for simplicity's sake) who used prisoners in their mines in Tennessee. After convict leasing ended in Tennessee in 1896, Tennessee Coal and Railroad moved its headquarters to Birmingham and continued using forced prison labor there, but those were Alabama prisoners, NOT Tennessee prisoners.
2. States absolutely used convict leasing to make money. The lease on the Tennessee State Penitentiary could not be sold for less than $100,000 PER YEAR beginning in the mid-1880s. That would be over $2 million per year in today's money.
3. Selling crops after sunset was specifically illegal as a means of controlling sharecroppers. The idea was that sharecroppers might sell some of their crop outside of their contract with the landowner. They would need to do it secretly so that the landowner didn't know, and would probably do it at night to prevent witnesses. Hence why selling crops after sunset was illegal.
I am happy to provide archival documents for these facts if you are interested.
Weren’t there other sunset laws though? I remember learning about them. They scared black people into staying off the street or out of view after sunset because almost anything they did could be construed as illegal.
In addition, selling things after sunset might have been a great way to make some extra money as a side hustle (watch NotYourMommasHistory where she talks about how side hustles helped free black people stay afloat). You might catch foot traffic by people coming home from work, and if you’re selling food people might be hungry because it’s dinner time. Not surprising it was criminalized by racists in power.
Right, but isn’t #3 simply an example of how it got started, but then later was used and abused later? We see this all the time and, especially certain people, get hung up on defending the origins, but not the common use?
I don’t need documentation to believe you. In the America history is very dark, and we need to discuss the past so we can have a better future.
@@lukeiamurdad9055 Ngl, not many have the intellectual Integrity to watch the History Coverage that Some-More-News did i nthe video "Our Fake Thanksgiving'.
This makes me ache in my soul for my poor grandparents and great grandparents from the early 1900s. Just knowing a piece of their stories, this reminded me that there was probably so much more that they saw and went through daily that they haven’t told me. I can’t imagine living in fear and working to the bone each day leading to absolutely nowhere. Thank goodness Black Americans have some kind of natural joy in our spirit and in our community and are able to fight through trauma together. I pray for the ones who this system has taken, and for the ones who are affected/corrupted by it today and don’t even know it.
You can't imagine? Maby not the fear buy do you have a job? If so even if you enjoy it your probably working persistently for the benefit of your boss. He gives you peanuts while he or the company racks in the lions share. That's working your fingers to the bone. And if your poor or just lower class in america. You know the average black American. It's ten times worse 40 hours work weeks with 30 and 15 min brakes. 45-60 mins of rest to work 8-12 hours per day. At a warehouse or restaurant or under the sun. On concrete floors. Working for even less peanuts. Then imagine that times 2 just to kinda feel middle class sometimes and have a little financial head way. Then imagine leaving that work to go home. And having to worry about police assuming your guilty of something until proven innocent. And other blacks around you in a lower class or in a worse situation. Some even wanting what you have. Others killing each other and taking innocent people like you with them in the cross fire. Not to even mention the prison system. All of that is working your fingers to the bone and living in constant fear. Wat he just described is a small piece to a very large puzzle
I'd hate to imagine the absolute horror that they were able to forget… only because it always happened!
It would leave us traumatized… what they were able to forget.
@@YouHaveToSeeThisMovie -… and imagine that another country changed YOUR country's minimum wage laws to $2.20/hr., so that they could build a factory there?
This causes a chain of events that leaves the region in complete chaos.
So bad… that 10 of the top 10 most dangerous places to live (outside of active war) are all around you!
Then you try to seek asylum… but that same country makes it to where you can only seek asylum in the nearest country to yours which is ON THE TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS PLACES TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET!
@@YouHaveToSeeThisMovie out of everything I said you attached to the phrase “I can’t imagine…” and wrote all of that? It is just a phrase to express empathy
@@YouHaveToSeeThisMovie @Tasha Hype I think what both of you said is completely valid, and obviously you both share a similar intent. There is still so much pain and unresolved trauma from the past, compounded with modern difficulties. We are still fighting this fight-the same fight-for our ancestors, ourselves, and our children. We just have to keep going, and we will eventually get to that “mountaintop.” Much love 💜💜💜
As a Black woman born in the segregated south and the great granddaughter of a enslaved woman who was a child when slavery “ended”, this video is appreciated. Unfortunately most people have been conditioned with the belief that “slavery ended along time ago and they should just get over it”. Sadly most people either don’t care or would rather not be reminded of the atrocities subjugated by people over another. Considering that other ethnicities have and will continue to be placed above and benefit from the struggles and civil rights advances. It’s still a fact that civil rights doesn’t apply to Melaninated people. At only 14 percent of the population, black people are still the core contributors to the financial sustainability of a nation.
Dude, you’ve been at this for a long time and your videos have been consistently getting better but WOW. You absolutely FLOORED me with this one. Not only did I feel like I was always learning something new every 30 seconds, but you treated it with the proper gravity and also used some great writing tricks. I really, really appreciate your craft. Thank you for sticking at this for so long. Made my day to see this.
He started pretty right wing and has gotten notably more leftist the more he learned about these topics. It's been a fun transition to watch.
@@Praisethesunson has he? I caught his videos somewhere in the middle I guess, as I started watching him about a year ago. Was he really like right-wing? How refreshing of a change
@@blankii333 I have watch his videos and I think he just tried to be neutral in his videos, as much as the topic would allow him, but been factual and honest when it comes to assess the reality will place you in the "woke side" more often than not.
Saying that, he used to have conservatives ideals, he had talk about it, he comes from a Military family, he went to some military school or something and served in Afghanistan or other place, not sure where, he got injure in combat or something. As young student he arrived to some "conclusions" on why black kids weren't doing as good as him or the rest of white kids, yes, negative conclusions. He have a video about the school system, he touch a little bit of his past inmature and wrong conclusions in that video.
@@Praisethesunson I hate how everything has to be described as left wing or right wing.
@@Alobster1 I do too, the problem is that everything that's it's not staunch conservative is "lefty" or "woke"...In my country nothing is deal in left or right, so I was not aware that I was a "Lefty" keep on mind Mexicans are VERY conservative culturally speaking (religiously, social norms, work places etc) but we tend to lean left in social issues, a meant left to American conservatives.
I am very conservative, financially speaking, dating, working, etc, but to the American right, just for have commun sense in social issues am just a "woke lefty". So yes I don't like to deal in these absolute terms, specially since in my country political alliance is not deal or define like this. But explain that to an average Con Joe after decades of Tv and political/religious propaganda about communism and the left distroying the very fabric of their country
In my American history class someone shared an anecdote about their grandfather talking to a black cab driver in New Orleans and he ask “you can vote right? since you can read” and the driver said he got down to the polling place and the literacy test they gave him said “If you can read this your dead”
"How many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?" That was one of the questions they would ask.
@@kiwitrainguy sheer lunacy...
One question to ask the examiner is "How did you do on this test?" But then that would put the black person in to the "you're dead" category.
Sadly, when I moved to New Orleans for business in 1981, it was made VERY CLEAR to me that they were still fighting the Civil War in Louisiana. White and black alike made this clear. And it was, back then, a VERY different world from anything else I had ever seen. After this video, I now understand why both races were mentally stuck in the 1860's, and what they were angry about. This needs to be taught in school. Putting blinders on hasn't worked, so let's try some understanding.
@@allisonmarlow184 I visited Huntsville Alabama in 1981 to visit an Aunt. I was in 7 th or 8 th grade. My Aunt took me on a river cruise. At one point they started playing the song Dixie. Everyone stood up just like they did to sing the national anthem at a baseball game. I have the chills now just thinking about it, I have a very new understanding of what happened. The more I learn the more I realize all of the lies I have been taught and why things just do not make any sense.
"it abolished slavery as a legal concept but didn't include punishment for people still engaging in it"
HOLY SHIT that is some Terms of Service legal fine print loophole they've made there @_@
Yeah that’s a BAR!
I believe I learned that once slavery became illegal, it was actually only a little illegal there were many ways of getting around having to pay for labor. For instance and imprisoned black man could be forced into free labor. Many things could put a black man in prison. Many ridiculous things. There you go back to your free labor nothing changed. Nothing ever changes instantly anyway and money always talks
I’m not angry. I feel sad and was almost bought to tears. Thank you for this video. I will show it to my children.
I have a Bachelor's in Communications, with a minor in History. I have really been into studying History and reading about the topic.
This is the first time I am hearing about debt peonage. That alone should say plenty.
Thank you for making this video, it was very informative and enlightening.
Before this video I wasn't someone who thought that racism ended with slavery hundreds of years ago, but this still managed to change my perception on racism in America more than anything else I've ever seen, heard or read. It did more than my school ever did, and my school went out of its way to teach the true history, so it did a better job than most. Every child in the country should watch this, thank you so much for making it
Edit: I also want to add what part of my perception changed. I was often dismissive of modern racism in America because "Well sure there was segregation and the war on drugs, and police brutality's still an issue, but black people have been essentially free to do most things since the 1860's. racism is what put black people in the position so many are in today, but it doesn't keep them there, they have it pretty much the same as white people in the same class as them." But with the knowledge that slavery not only existed, but was prominent for nearly eighty years after it "ended", that those who weren't enslaved were in constant fear of the very real possibility that it could happen to them over essentially nothing at any moment, I came to understand that racism is much more than a faint shadow of this countries past.
We need the parents, man. Somebody has got to break through the mindset that continues to foster the lies, yes, but a generation of parents need HELP!!!
@@frankthefrankfrank8138 me too, i had a similar experience to this person, grew up a white guy in the deep south (my immediate family, except my dad isn't racist) and up until a few years ago when I started stepping outside the bubble I lived in I realized and learned alot and it completely shifted my opinions on pretty much everything about post civil war America. It's great seeing people grow and learn and I haven't finished the video yet, but I know KB has explained it in a way that will change alot of people's minds.
If you were willing to change once, I beg you to look at the actual facts, and open your mind once more. Police brutality is an issue for black people as much as any other race, the statistics show that more white men are shot and killed by the police than black, and you better believe they don’t get the same attention even when it’s a questionable shooting. All the”hands up don’t shoot” garbage you see on twitter is a flat out lie most of the time, and you shouldn’t make opinions until you’ve consulted a non-biased source. Racism DID NOT put black people in the position they were today, if it did, then how would you explain asians, who suffered much of the same discrimination, even being put in camps in the 20th century, yet today they earn on average more than the American white man. If slavery caused the American black to be in their current position , then explain Nigerians. Nigerians were among the people enslaved, blacker than the average American black, today Nigerians are the highest earning people in all of America. They make more money than white people, AND asian people. Ask yourself this… If racism and slavery was the reason, why have many other black ethnicities prospered in our country, yet the American Black has failed? Truly ask yourself, dig deep, and I think you’ll find this is much bigger than racism and slavery’s scar. Indeed, it a result of culture, Asians do better than most because of how highly they value education, that is culture. Nigerians are apparently even better at encouraging education. Not to mention, the absolutely staggering 67% single motherhood rate among American blacks, there are massive issues like single motherhood present, and people want to blame it on racism?
And, the truth is, many similar laws are still on the books. The are technically laws that anyone could be held to and are... black, white, orange, and green people all fall prey to these laws, but the people affected are disproportionately people of color. I think we have an overall great country, but we still have a loooooooooooong way to go to get it right. Thank you for reconsidering your position.
Man oh man would your hair catch on fire if you learned about a place called Sudan. Or the DRC. Or any of those savage places.
I'm french, and this is gold. We have our own myths that are still causing harm as well, with the same kinda rotten smell and artificial flavor. There is so much to understand from this video. Like not believing obvious lies and biases, staying critical, digging the facts and examine them from all perspectives, with humanism in mind. To be learned by all americans indeed and everyone, really. Thank you !
Good luck in your elections next week. When I lived in France, le Pen had maybe 10% support (Jean-Marie, not Marine). Not sure how it's almost gone.
Tell your people to Free Haiti 🇭🇹!!! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
French not much better. Thanks for Vietnam
@@ReparationsNation pay Haiti
The people of Haiti won their freedom twice in blood and gold
Indeed colonialism still has its harmful effects.
this is the greatest video youtube has ever given us, thank you sir. i hope the entire nation has the opportunity to watch this
Don’t feel guilty for believing the myth for so long. You should only feel guilty if you heard the truth and rejected it.
And those who use it to guilt a whole race for their own agenda.
Exactly.
This is practically a Quran quote.
@@asetelini haram
@@my8thaccount236 ?
I had an aunt who while recounting stories about her early life, told me that during the great flood of 1927 in Louisiana a group of Black men showed up claiming that, "The master abandoned us." This was after the water started rising. The implication is clear that these been were slaves…
There's a movie that Keke Palmer starred in (don't remember the name) that retold the story of slaves that were found in either the 1960s or 1970s that had been so isolated from everywhere else, that the white people were able to keep the black people enslaved. This is exactly why I don't celebrate Juneteenth
@@KCLARK98 looking for the movie right now. Thank you for the information.
That's a trip. Many of my family members left the South, as part of a caravan comprised of extended family and other "kinfolk," right after The Great Flood of 1927 and during The Great Migration. My great grandmother told me that's why she was deathly afraid of rising water because she remembered when the levee broke.
@@KCLARK98 The movie is called Alice.
Democrats still pushing for white supremacy. It's just in Corporate America and you don't hear about it.
I find it disturbing and despicable that Southern states are writing laws banning this information from being taught. We need this information shared, not banned and hidden.
Fucking desantis over here almost burning books to keep this hidden
@@karl_franz_prince_and_emperor ashamed to have his surname
they want to bring this shit back
No one is banning this from being taught.
@@Objectified yes they are
Thank you for putting together a great video about the history myths, and the accuracy of black history in this country.
This is your best work. Hard to even express just how impactful a message and with such a sincere and genuine delivery. Looking back you may lament some of your shortcomings as a teacher but your messages are so needed and reaching people all over the world. Your dedication to seeking the the truth is admirable. Thank you
You too can seek these truths. All it takes is a trip to your local library
@@Praisethesunson on slavery? Good joke
@@murk4552 found the guy without a library card
@@Praisethesunson point me to the book which contains the knowledge and framing found in this video
1:14:25 This person feels guilty for teaching the “standard” and “sanitized” way, he probably had at most a few hundred kids. He reached 500,000 viewers with this video. That makes up for it IMO.
As someone who was taught in the Canadian education system, we often glorify our role for the underground railroad and helping to free black slaves escaping servitude, however this entire video enlightened me a lot on the "in between" period of slavery and the modern day war on drugs. I learned a lot thank you for sharing.
Our war on drugs in all latin america have a White supreamcist bases, no wonder why it sucks.
Literally the War on Drugs was started to criminalize the poor. Due to all the reasons presented here, the majority of Black people are poor.
@Christa Simon to be fair, although it is probably not available in a lot of the country, I was pushed into an alternative English class which was entirely based on indigenous authors and their experiences, for two years. It was not glossed over, but I live in the middle of nowhere and have no idea how it is in the majority of the country.
I am also 18, and it was very very recently and did not exist at my school until I was about 15
Responsibility for most of the drug trade and use lies at the feet of the American government. They have and are using it to fund wars, regime change expenses along with a host of other illegal and immoral things; including, control of its own population.
"You won't believe what brought them back"
Me, an avid Woodrow Wilson hater: "OH YES I WILL"
Ah yes Will
Willsoooon!
I didn’t learn this in school either. I did learn it in college. I attended an HBCU and majored in history and political science. My eyes were opened to so many things I never knew until then. Now I add those things when I teach social studies. The picture of America changes dramatically when all the pieces are put in place. Thanks for the video.
As a Brazilian, I used to think you guys have handled that matter better since the 13th Amendment came in 1864 and our "Lei Aurea" only in 1888 (we were the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery). Unfortunately, the reality is always much more complicated than dates and laws.
I love this video! It's great to see history through a more critical lens. It's not always easy to access that level of information, so thank you so much for making it possible and accessible.
What age did you learn about the 13th amendment?
i wish i knew how important was it to learn history as a kid. I also wish there was a channel like KB in Brazil, to talk about these issues.... if you know any, id be happy to check them out! i have poor knowledge of the UA-cam culture in my own country
In a way we handled it better on the "gradual emancipation" sense.
When one reads on the Imperial Period of brazilian history, lots of cognitive dissonances show: multiple prime ministers, and the Imperial Family, were staunch abolitionists and abhored the practice. Still, for 66 years of independent existence we kept them in bondage. Our constitution, based on liberal and enlightened ideals, didnt ever mention slavery: but it made reference, once, to free persons, therefore implying the existence of non-free persons. We continued to use the Phillipine Ordinances, that made the slave both thing and man.
At least, or maybe even worse: there wasnt a current of morals or ideals to justify slavery on the black's inferiority - the justification was Always naked self-interest, the Brazilian economy would collapse without It.
@@bighouse7931I'm on university and never learned about it (I'm European tho)
@@Lucasp110 It's always worse to target a specific group of people for slavery because you've damned people before they are even born.
This was just EXCELLENT - I didn't know a LOT of this. I definitely wouldn't have known that the last slave was freed in 1942. Unbelievable
There are still slaves everywhere in America and in the world, slavery doesn't end just because its outlawed.
@@LOWERCASEJOKE Indentured Servitude is effectively slavery; something difficult to remove. I still remember when a Saudi prince was caught in a scandal when it was discovered he brought an indentured servant to NYC.
Was actually 1953
Our current Vice President is big on slavery she made sure prisoners that were either acquitted or had finished their sentence remained incarcerated to they could fight wildfire for free.
I barely knew any of this. What the fuck.
I am one of those 'non American' viewers (Bangladesh) and I really appreciate the lengths you go to / effort you put in to make it understandable / digestible for someone like me.
And yes, the BetterU bit IS hilarious !
as a black person you had to have a white person who was your former employer speak for you for another white person to hire you?
And, when has that 'code' changed? We black males fill out job applications that have employers or former employers as a reference.
This made me think about how I learned recently that in 1800s Britain it was very difficult for domestic servants to find better working conditions because they needed a recommendation letter from their last home to work in a new home. An abusive owner/employer would rarely ever allow it.
Honestly when I think about it, as a white woman I'm not sure that any employer I've ever had from working in food service, to working in an office, has ever called any of my references. And now I'm realizing that this process could be and likely has been unequally applied to my coworkers. Just like employers discriminate against black names on resumes, they could easily do the same for references.
This might be the best deconstruction of historical myth you've done. As a white man in my early 40's, I've spent the past number of years learning just how much of what I was taught when I was young was little more than a twisted narrative. I'm not American, but as a Canadian I've heard all the same things. Good job, and thanks!
Canada has a whole different set of issues with racism, mostly against first nations people. If you're researching stuff like this I'm sure you've researched that too though lol
@@Comuniity_ yeah, Canada isn't free from it's dark past either, nor the bullshit lies and propaganda told to make people feel better. 😒
@@Comuniity_ Most Canadians that grew up after the 90s learned about the residential schools and what happened to the natives, the level of detail depends on the province and teacher, but everyone has some knowledge about what happened.
Canada isnt innocent either
@@JollyOldCanuck I never learned about residential schools, grew up in Ontario and I graduated in 2018. We learned about "aboriginal" people in elementary, where I was taught that we were all friends and helped eachother and everything was peachy keen. Didn't talk about Indigenous people after maybe 7th/8th grade.
What makes people most angry isn't so much as America's atrocities committed against another human being but the fact that we've been lied to and that the lies continue. TY for making this video that should be taught in schools.
great point
Who is angry about being lied to??? We have people in this country basically burning books and fighting against this history being taught and I mean the watered down history that was being taught now they have to teach slavery was good! So I don’t know what you are talking about but that’s the luxury of living in a bubble and not having to deal with reality! As a Black man that offends me a lot of these laws that are racist can be changed but won’t and you wanna know why because a certain group in this country that has true power to do it just won’t because they support it and have this deep seeded hatred for us like we did all these things to yall and not the other way around they started a propaganda war against us that last to this very day Arabs are right now still enslaving Black Africans and the world says nothing about it and it’s 2024! People are angry they were lied to??? Wow! I want to meet these people! As if Black Americans haven’t been saying these very SAMETHING for generations but this kid makes a video and now it becomes real to yall! That’s offensive! I will say atleast you have a heart to even feel away about all of this but it’s not enough to make a comment we need change and REPARATIONS ARE DUE WE NEED ACTION ON THAT BLACK AMERICANS SHOULD BE LABELED A PROTECTED GROUP AND BE GIVEN LAND AND THE RIGHT TO GOVERN OURSELVES JUST AS THE NATIVE AMERICANS WE GIVEN! Let see who stands with us on that!
@Black_unity597 that didn't work out so great for the native americans. Be careful what you wish for.
@christiansmith5047 It did for the Cheifs no?
@@christiansmith5047That is bc the native Americans got screwed on their deal by the US Gov
As a Black US military vet who literally has my family's bloodline of former slaves running through my veins, I genuinely appreciate you laying out the REALITY of the history of the government sanctioned targeting of fellow human beings solely because they have my skin complexion.
America is one the least racist counties I’ve ever visited out of 41 different nations.
It's not just skin complexion, which is the problem; but instead, the actual real problem has to do with your classification status. Being a descendant of Freedmen/Negroes has been a classification problem, in many respects.
First things first; thank you for your service. I think you nailed it; some human beings need to feel superior to another human being and will do just about anything to validate that feeling.
Thank you for your service
You guys need to stop downplaying these peoples generational struggles.
And to me it seems that there are more racist (white against colored) people in the US than non racist. And I'm white American myself.