The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery
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- First there were the Pilgrims, then there was the Civil War. After MLK ended segregation, racism disappeared from the country. If the Standard American History Myth that we've all been taught is incorrect - When was the last slave freed in America?
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Why the 3/5ths Compromise Was Anti-Slavery - • Why the 3/5ths Comprom...
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0:00 Introduction
2:11 The Standard American History Myth
8:57 America’s Founding
17:29 Abolition
23:53 Civil War
32:29 Reconstruction
36:09 Black Codes
40:14 Convict Leasing
45:58 Debt Peonage
57:00 Jim Crow
1:06:26 Involuntary Servitude
1:11:26 Conclusion
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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
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…
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 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.
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
@@KristinaKarinait’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?
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.
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
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
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
@@T.GLongstaffI 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.
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.
That plea bargaining sounds like the criminal "justice" system in Japan, where if you're arrested you're immediately assumed guilty, to the point where 99% of Japanese court cases result in a guilty verdict.
Slavery wasn’t abolished. it was redesigned
Best way to put it
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
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
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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 frustrates me how much prageru uses the whole "DEMOCRATS DID IT" to completely get rid of the fact it was the poltical right, not the left, the partys switched ideologies
Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that either.
Republicans will often say the democrats did slavery and lost the Civil War while also raising the Confederate flag from their houses and sticking it onto their lifted trucks
they are clearly a very smart base of people lol
@@raltzei8120 seems to think they did
they didnt switch ieologies though
@@highviewbarbell im not gonna entertain your incompetence, since you couldn’t even spell ideologies correctly
"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.
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.
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
@@memyselfandeye76 I don't think he's making excuses I think he's just talking about how underfunded public schools are
I went to school in Arkansas and graduated in 2004. We actually learned about almost all of these instances. I was in an AP class. However, I will say that there was a lot of context missing, and this video does an incredible job to clear things up. Cheers on job well done!
I also learned most of this in an AP class, though I come from up north in Washington.
Graduated 2 years ago, I also learned this in APUSH - from Texas.
You remind me a bit of my AP social studies teacher (in 1976/77). It was a long time ago, but I remember that she spent significant time talking about the less-attractive areas of American History, especially the treatment of Native Americans, the Trail of Tears, carpetbaggers, the internment of Japanese Americans. She was very calm and cool while she taught, but there was a sadness below the surface; I think I understand it now. I went to school in NY State, but she would definitely have problems in Texas or Florida today. I found your video compelling, and upsetting . Any child anywhere would be lucky to have a teacher like you. My question for you and to all of us, is, how do we make this better moving forward?
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.
"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
Growing up in VA, it's crazy to think that most people don't know the true origin of their own country.
I worked for a few years in a Civil War Historical House. I learned more there in one training week than my entire US Public Scooling.
On the Literacy Tests; the librarian for the museum showed me documents for one very, very infamous case. A black male tried to register to vote in North Carolina, and was passing every test they gave him. Turns out he was moving from Europe and was a licensed Doctor with a PHD. The tester ended up pulling a single sheet of paper from a bottom drawer and the Dr couldn't complete that test and so failed. The test was written entirely in Chinese and wasn't a test, but rather a receipt of goods.
Even if the Black passed the initial literacy test, Southern States would find some way to ensure they couldn't pass the next. Even if they had to make one up.
Wow.
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
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
im a white gal born and raised in texas. my history classes across the years was basically that mock prageru video at the beginning. i cant exactly say this is a shock, as it checks out that america would do this, its just shocking how little i actually knew before watching this. thank you for making this.
I never become disgusted or nauseous because of true crime or anything like that, but at around 27:30 when you said humans were listed as livestock I physically grimaced. Truly disgusting.
Disgusting, but it makes sense. One of the keys to maintaining slavery as an institution was to convince people that black people weren't on the same level as the other races (specifically white people, but natives Asians etc were seen as above black people as well) so effectively animals
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
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 wrote entire papers on this subject earning my bachelors in history and I was surprised to learn a few of these things. Great video.
e n t i r e
No one can say nothing was learned from this video!
I must say, first im a musician and dont really need to or much desire to learn about random history, yet you were able to capture my attention and keep me watching until the end. That was extremely interesting and informative, thank you for the lesson Mr.
Musician? You should always look to experience other ppl's pain and culture. Makes for better music. Or happiness
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.
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
Real answer, it never ended, penal labor which is protected under the 13th amendment is still allowed in many states, while private slave owning is extinct public slave owning is still allowed and private entitys can benefit from it.
Can we appreciate the amount of research this man had to do just for an hour plus video.
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.
"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
I took AP US history in high school, didn't learn a single bit of any of this, well, except for the myth part....gotta love our education system!
I didn't get most of this until I was in college U.S history :/
this is the greatest video youtube has ever given us, thank you sir. i hope the entire nation has the opportunity to watch this
"we had black president twice so we can't be racist" is the equivalent of "I have black friends so I can't be racist"
Not to mention that obama isn't even a descendant of slaves and was raised by white people.
Only thing we shared with Obama is complexion black folks in America don't come from africa Obama fooled slot of us here in America n this the same guy who fooled some of us wit crooked joe
Reparations now cut the checks do u believe in Reparations for the descendants?
@@toreano3160 ehhhhhhhhh as a fellow light skin (black and white), the 400 years of slavery, and nearly 100 years of segregation something should of been done a long long time ago. whites were given millions of acres of land in a time where thats really all people had. Yet blacks werent even aloud to read/write. the atrocities that happened have done irreversible on the black community. though as it says iin the video we elected a black president twice and nothing was done. the year iis now 2024 and America is almost as divided than when the brown vs the school of education.
i would challenge you to tell me how i can prove i am not racist without sounding racist
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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.
As a history major and aspiring social studies teacher/professor, I truly appreciate this video from my soul. I subscribed immediately within the first 3 minutes. The standard history we were all taught in school felt like a puzzle, but the disgusting government stole the missing piece, and you found it. All of it makes me so upset. I hope we will all somehow be able to fix this egregious injustice to all the black communities.
Honestly as a black man I can say that I learn quite a lot from this video and I appreciate the truths
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?
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.
i'm not from the usa so i never studied "elementary school level common knowledge", but after high school one day my brain went like "waaaait a minute, why didn't the usa side with germany?" and i really liked that the answer of this video title was also the answer to my years-long question
55:04 One of the professors at my college was one of the researchers and narrators for a podcast called Sugarland 95
about convict leasing and sugarcane in Texas. I highly recommend listening to it to all of y’all who want to learn more.
Thank you for this video!
“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.
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.
I gotta give you the utmost respect and appreciation. You laid errything perfectly. Thank you for takin the tyme and havin the courage to enlighten us. Subscribin for sure.
This video should be shown in every history class in the country, especially Florida.
And Texas
why especially florida?
Florida has moved far right into the Prager U, Moms For Liberty, anti-woke, only teach the traditional story camp. Their attempts to stop leftist indoctrination in schools are resulting in forcing a right-wing agenda on schools. They see the pendulum move and rather than remove politics and return to the center they just pull it even further in the opposite direction.
Because Florida, where I live, is a hotbed for history deniers. Some of these silly school boards are trying to use PragerU garbage to teach kids.
@@antiLGTBQ have you been watching the news this the shit they scared of teaching that’s why.
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’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.
Wow. I learned a ton from this video. I appreciate that you explained what is taught in schools for those of us who aren't American. Also that you made this so entertaining that Mum and I didn't even notice the length. Also, nearly every question I had about what you were saying was answered almost immediately. The only question I still have is - why is false pretense listed as both a felony and misdemeanour. I'll probably rewatch this at some point in case you explained and I just missed it.
I knew practically none of this before watching your video. It really explains a lot of things that I had wondered about the way things seem to work in the States. Thank 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. 🙏🙀😿
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.
@@UberOtaku001 it’s funny how they turn the word “woke” into some into something negative. And when I say they, I mean Fox News.
The fact that it took a rich white kid being a victim to abolish convict leasing in Florida says all you need to know about US history.
Yeah, nothing changes until it upsets somebody white and rich who can make a difference.
Cry
@@leonhenry4861 Which the affirmative action system does not. Not particularly compared to its impact on the other "half" of whites in the United States. What part of not being treated as a legitimate job applicant and not having entre into the educational system above the level of a bachelor's degree do people have trouble understanding? It's not a daydream. It's extant policy and law.
@@Toast2222 he ain't wrong
So true perfect observation
This was very well done, the best explanation of all this that I've experienced. Thank you. It was long, but it captured my attention the whole way through.
Never seen a single one of your videos but you absolutely nailed it. Well done. Well done sir.
"You won't believe what brought them back"
Me, an avid Woodrow Wilson hater: "OH YES I WILL"
Ah yes Will
Willsoooon!
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. 💜💜💜
In the annals of tales that textbooks spin,
Beyond the Pilgrims, where truths begin.
Through the echoes of Civil War's fierce strife,
A chapter untold, in the tapestry of life.
MLK, a beacon in history's quest,
Ended segregation, put bigotry to rest.
But harken, oh seeker, to the hidden lore,
For racism's ghost, still haunting the core.
The Standard Myth, a veil of disguise,
A narrative crafted, where the truth belies.
Neoslavery's whispers, in the silence linger,
A tale obscured, by history's artful finger.
No swift demise, with MLK's decree,
Racism's shadow, a resilient tree.
Segregation's chains may outwardly sever,
Yet roots of injustice persist forever.
When was the last, the shackles unbind?
In the realm of neoslavery, the answers we find.
Beyond the textbooks, in the shadows cast,
A legacy lingers, a historical mast.
Knowing Better, a voice in the crowd,
Unveils the truths, like a thunderous cloud.
Beyond the facade of a myth so neat,
Neoslavery's echoes, under history's feet.
In the corridors of time, a haunting truth,
The last slave freed, beyond the youth.
Racism's grip, a persistent bane,
In the fabric of history, leaves a stain.
So let us learn, with open hearts,
The untold chapters, where history imparts.
Neoslavery's tale, a truth laid bare,
In Knowing Better's enlightened glare.
THIS IS SO AMAZING ❤ SO TALENTED 😊
I am really glad I chose to watch your video ❤️. You're in depth truths seasoned with some sarcasm, are factual and reality driven and so important in this world. Thank you!
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 ?
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.
I’d double check that, ““ when Darwin’s book of , “Origin of Species” came out”” claim. Darwin made it clear that he didn’t believe in race.
Yeah but it kinda got hijacked unfortunately
This video was incredible from beginning to end. Thank you
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?
@@user-du3vo5ld2j 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.
@@user-du3vo5ld2j 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.
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.
This is the most informative video I've seen on this topic.
Eye opening. Thank you so much for making this video, your students were lucky to have you.
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
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 grew up in the Uk too and in Highschool we covered the English involvement. I think your teachers were being selective.
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
Wow… this guy just earned himself a new lifetime subscriber.. i really like this his video and cant wait to watch more
There's another piece of history that I was excited to learn about on UA-cam but then saw completely omitted in a Pearson textbook - Hiawatha and the Iroquois League. I really recommend the Extra History series about it! At one point as a special education instructor, I was teaching the various influences that formed the Constitution, and I made sure to mention the Iroquois even though the textbook said nothing about Native American influences.
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.
White Americans don't want to be accountable.
We don't want to make white people feel uncomfortable.
@@james_chatman "certain people" being the white middle class
@@jealousyofthesun no
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.
Wow! This was so well done, thank you!
I know a lot of the information, but on a surface level. The way you went in-depth was dope! Keep on teaching my brother. We need more like you!
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 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.
this has been added to my “must watch” playlist
Thank you for making this content that is so important especially now when history is being changed before our eyes. This truth must be taught and remembered. Thank You.
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.
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've watched your videos without mentioning - and I think this is important - your intro is hilariously well matched to your channel name😂
Amazing video! Thanks for doing it! The world should know about this!!
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.
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".
Excellent video. You're doing a great job for humanity. Thank you very much!
ive always like when documentery actually teach you something by just stating facts
Thank You
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.
Idk where you guys went to school but this was taught in school. I’m 22 years old, some of the in-depth specifics were glossed over for sake of time but all this stuff was taught
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.
This is one of the best videos on this platform