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I'm a 74 year old black American and I hve known this information for decades. The lack of teaching this info is why so many don't have that knowledge. We have generations of black youth who don't read to learn the truth about many issues.
I am also an older person and I was taught this stuff so I don't know what happened to History in schools or when it happened.
Mr. Wallace.... I'd like to ask you a question and feel free not to answer it...
My profile picture is actually me. White man that grew up in the South. I grew up.poor in the South where there was no delineation between poor "white" or poor "black". If you were poor you weren't treated as well regardless of color. I was born in 74' and I have a HUGE problem with black people my age and younger screaming racism and reparations for "what was done to THEM! " This infuriates and disgusts me. Every black kid I grew up with had the same opportunities I did, sometimes they were given more opportunities than I was. I'm appalled that they are trying to get something based off the suffering of others in my opinion.
My question sir is this... How do feel about this. You experienced real racism and inequality. You understand what true ignorance looks like.
I'm told "I can't have this opinion because I'm white"...I just tell those people they're idiots and move on, but I feel my points are valid.
I'd just like to hear your opinion since you've actually lived in two different Americas.
Thank you for your time sir.
Not only black people, but many others also don't have a clue either. Our education system is a disgrace, I believe on purpose. Very hard to manipulate people who are truly educated, not propagandized with woke nonsense designed to divide. Many people in this country take great pleasure in punching down, not up.
We have generations of ALL youth who don't read.
That's why society, in general, is plagued by ignorance & stupidity..........all over the world!
Only a couple years younger but there was a lot there I wasn't aware of, especially the rate of death among white slavers. Most of my position on the slavery was based off the history of abolition, the Kansas Missouri war and the massacres related to trying to keep slavery from new states. A lot is just as Asia pointed out history is taught as a series of general issues. There is a lot of history within every event that goes untaught. Basically why people need to learn to love to read.
As a Chinese, I can only say that the Great Wall of China was definitely not built by willing happy workers.
Yes just like the Egyptian pyramids.
Or the Taj Mahal, Coliseum or other world wonders...
i remember louis ck talking about that
@@justsomeguy5063 If memory serves right, those workers were treated with respect, and had that as a job. They got a tomb right next to the pyramid they worked on when they died, and were given a wage or something like that. Not that I'm an expert at all, but I seem to have heard this from several sources. But there were definitely slaves there, no doubt, I don't think any people that conquered territory didn't take any slaves.
@@justsomeguy5063 pyramids weren't build by humans. People have to really dig deep if they want to know the truth about slavery and the "pyramids" I can for sure tell you it was 10000000000% NOT MADE BY HUMANS.
"Never let education keep you from learning" - Mark Twain
Education being teaching
@BRI336 ALBANY
What's your point?
How many people know Where the Ottoman Empire was, maybe, maybe 10%.
@@michaeljcarneyjr.6187 True.. or that they were on the wrong side of WWI and that's why Palestine belonged to the English before they gave it to the Jews. That's how we used to do war.. today it more like "sorry we invaded your country and destroyed your population, here's a statue and a day in march's
I am Greek, living in Greece for most of my 42 years. The very facts he mentions about slavery in Europe and in the Balkans are very well known and taught in schools. As a tiny example, in ancient times, during the conflict among Greek city states, it was a common practice for the defeated to be sold as slaves. It's been happening for ever throughout history down to, sadly, even our times.
The whole world is under the willful and ignorant impression that only America had slavery. Even some Americans think that. That's one good reason this needs to be taught in schools. America is hated for the things other countries did too, but hating on America is the popular thing to do. We spent much blood to end slavery in the US and thank God it's far behind us. 🙏 The truth will set you free! 🇺🇲
When explorers discovered the Yanomami in the northern Amazon in south America only about 50-60 years ago they were the most remote people on earth, and guess what they were doing when they were found by explorers? Fighting, killing, and enslaving each other. Just like every other culture on earth prior to the modern age. The people who blame racism and slavery solely on white people are beyond ignorant of human nature, culture, and history. As the video says it was white English Christians who actually finally decided to use military force to stamp out the slave trade in Europe and west Africa, yet somehow in America there is a false narrative that white people are somehow evil for doing the same things 160+ years ago that literally everyone else did since the dawn of time.
@@TheRapnep America is mostly hated for wiping out Native Americans and steal their land and not officially recognizing or apologizing for it. Slavery isn't the only reason. Plus the offensive wars post-ww2 until today and other shady covert ops to destabilize certain regions and governments. Just like this topic in the video, there's much more Americans aren't taught about in school. If you want to know what I'm talking about, search for John Perkins: "Zeitgeist: Addendum" Extended Interview 2008 on UA-cam and watch the video.
@@TheRapnep "America is hated for the things other countries did too...
" the same applies to germany...
the word slave (arabic = "Saqāliba") derives from the word "slave" (slavic), which describes light-skinned (eastern) europeans.
from the german wikipedia: "Islam found and maintained slavery as a firmly entrenched institution in the region of its origin. Muhammad and his contemporaries owned, captured, acquired, sold, and freed slaves or used female slaves as concubines.[1] Over the centuries, the slave trade and slave labor were important economic factors in the Islamic world. It was only gradually abolished in most Muslim states through the colonialist influence of European states, which began to make itself felt in the early 19th century.[1] To this day, however, legal relationships similar to slavery continue to exist in individual majority Islamic countries."
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. He is one of the most knowledgeable and wise economists and historians in American history. His work should be required reading in every high school.
Thomas is extremely smart, and hes on point always
He's wrong here though. Shockingly stupid take
Ok know u need to explain
I came here to say this exact thing. Thomas Sowell is the most undervalued scholar alive today.
They are to busy PUSHING the gay agenda and all kinds of other 💩💩💩💩 that’s totally useless public schools are a waste of time PERIOD.!!!!!!
I’m Irish, in my late 50’s and the stories I heard from my great grandmother about the Irish being slaved were as bad as anything I’ve ever read. Slavery isn’t uniquely American/Black
100 percent
At one point, Europe's biggest slave market was in Dublin where they sold people captured in Great Britain.
The Irish were pretty big slavers themselves. During Roman times the biggest slave threat to England was from Ireland and the Roman navy spent most of their time stopping Celtic raiders. And of course the patron Saint of Ireland - St Patrick - was a Welsh slave.
@@gunnargundersen3787 thats karma brother..eye for a eye lol...oooo poor romans lol got slapped back son
@@dosdahrk4504 They weren't really taking Romans. The Irish were raiding the West coast of England and Wales. And of course the Irish as an integral part of the UK were huge players in the British Atlantic slave trade until the Somerset case in 1770 that banned slavery De Jure in the UK (De facto slavery was killed in England by the 1086 decree by William the Conqueror that a tax was paid to the Crown for a Slave being taken in the UK which killed Slavery domestically). Of course you have to be fair both ways. The Irish were also approximately 1/3rd of the British Military and Colonial staff despite being 17% of the UK's population so when the UK were the first major nation to ban Slavery they were also heavily involved in the eradication of Slavery. Ireland also had a 17% say in the UK parliament (equal exactly to their population size). I don't know how the Irish parties voted in the UK parliament - I haven't researched it - but they get the credit as being part of the first Empire in history to ban it.
Remember, slavery existed on every continent in almost every country. We learn about the Atlantic Slave Trade because it sets off emotions. Keeping racism alive is a hustle for many people. We live in a post civil rights era America. There is opportunity for everyone. If we make good choices, there will be no poverty, hatred, or racism. Thank you for having an open mind and learning about some of the truths of slavery.
Agreed. One of the uncomfortable truths that often doesn't get mentioned in that discussion is that slavery was even a part of the Bible. Abraham had slaves. Hagar was Sarah's slave. Bilhah and Zilpah were Leah's and Rachel's slaves.
Of course, it isn't unique to the Bible. Another example that always disturbed me was reading Seneca from Rome. He talks about the evils of slavery and of going to watch the Gladiators kill each other or battle with Lions. However, in his discussion his problems aren't with the fact that slaves don't have dignity or choices. It sounded more like what someone would say to someone who goes to a sporting event or watched too much tv today - basically as a spectator you are wasting your time and are rotting your brain doing mindless activities.
Another uncomfortable truth about slavery is that there may have been cases where it was the most humane option. Let's pretend you live in a relatively small, vulnerable society. A society that is your neighbor has decided that they don't like you, and they have essentially committed to keep attacking you until you are dead. You go to war with them and win that war. You have three basic options - 1. Declare peace and let them go back knowing that as soon as they are strong enough to do it they plan to attack you again, 2. Wipe out the entire society, or 3. Enslave the society so they can't get to a place where they are strong enough to attack you again. All three options sound terrible, but the best option to me is slavery. And if it is a choice between death and slavery, the slaves probably think it is the better choice - assuming you are a reasonable slave owner and give them a life that is worth living even in slavery. Another place where slavery might make sense is when a slave volunteers for slavery. Imagine that you are basically on your own and have no food, no shelter, and you know there are bandits around you. You also know there is someone in your town that has plenty of food and shelter and is very successful in battle. It might make sense for you to make a deal with this person that if they will provide you with access to food and shelter and will agree to fight to protect you without making you go to war with them that you are willing to serve as their slave. It's a better option than dying. Also, the fact that you are exempt from military service may mean you are even getting the better end of the deal depending on how many wars are going on around you. In a similar vein to this, the precursor to slavery in the United States was indentured servitude. This meant a lot more sense than outright slavery, especially in cases where it was consensual. If you had been thrown in debtor's prison for the rest of your life, would it be worth it to pledge to work as someone's slave for 10 years if they would both pay the debt to get you out of prison and also pay your passage to a new land with new opportunities? Many people would say yes. What's 10 years if it means a brand new second chance at life? In those days, many people came over as indentured servants, worked off their debt, and then started making money of their own and may have used that money to pay off someone else's debt and make it possible for them to come to a new country. On one hand, they now get the benefit of having a servant, and on the other hand they also know after 10 years that person will also get a second chance at life. Of course, with any system you will always get people who will abuse it. It's controversial to say, but while some families absolutely abused their slaves in every possible way, there were other families that genuinely saw their slaves as part of their own families and saw it as their duty to treat them with a certain level of respect. There were even many slave holders that didn't want to hold slaves, but who couldn't legally free them because they had inherited the slaves as well as a ton of debt for which the slaves were seen as collateral. Plus, there are stories of people in the South especially who would free a slave, and a neighbor would capture them as they were headed to the North and claim them as their own, so even for those who had both the ability and inclination to free their slaves they had to consider the very real possibility that keeping ownership of their slaves was the best way to guarantee their safety from unscrupulous people.
I know that's very long and probably no one will raed the whole thing, but the bottom line is what may seem to be an easy, obvious decision from our perspective may not have been so easy and obvious to the people who were actually living through those days and having to make those decisions.
"Keeping racism alive is a hustle for many people." the many people are call politicians and they are hustling people for political reasons, votes!
And slavery is still around today sadly.
It's not really uncomfortable once you know the context in the bible. Just like in this video excerpt, most people didn't know how slaves were obtained. Also, a lot of slaves were volunteered servants. They didn't distinguish the two in those days between captured slave and indentured servant. In New Testament times, slavery was already on the decline, and the examples given by Christ and the Apostles, were that Christians were not here to start a revolution, or overthrow governments. So, thus, told slaves to submit to their masters, and for masters not to mistreat their slaves. As a disciple of Christ, our job is to save souls using the Gospel, we're not here to rule or change the world, it's going to be destroyed when Jesus returns.@@hollybigelow5337
Well, the reason we (in the US) learn about the Atlantic slave trade is because it's the most relevant to our country's history. Slavery in the Balkans didn't spark our country's civil war. 13% of our population isn't here in this country due to the Barbary Slave Trade. And yeah, it's a touchy subject so it's often used for outrage farming, but that doesn't mean we're only learning about it to keep racial tensions high; it's important to learn about. Hopefully in a high-resolution manner.
great stuff, Thomas Sowell doesnt get nearly the love he deserves, he should be a household name as we'd all be better off, regardless of race, with a greater exposure to his thoughts and wisdom
I am a childless 60 year old black man and was taught most of this in Elementary school. It is shocking to me that younger Americans aren't taught and don't know the history of slavery throughout the world. It is thanks to Christian nations and peoples that slavery has mostly been abolished throughout the world.
AMEN
Truth
Most think white people went inland and rounded up the tribal people of Africa and brought them here. I suppose it to relieve themselves of some of the guilt of the horrible act.
Except that they are, and the claim that they are not taught, this is complete and utter nonsense.
@@BlackStudies It seems that many disagree with you. Don't just assume they're all mixed up.
As a Hispanic Anglo Christian man, born mid 50s , the disinformation from those who seek to control people, do it by Division and hate ,
This is an excellent review, I've listened to Thomas for years,
The fact that so few people today know what he's about should be eye opening,
Cuddos to you
yes christianity is disinformation .......GO ON AND CONTRADICT YOURSELF AND REPLY TO ME CHRISTIAN .....
You ain't that old.
What blows my mind is that this is new information for this couple. The institution of Slavery is a stain on all of humanity. No single race is responsible and no race is innocent of the atrocities of slavery. I can only begin to understand the frustration of African Americans, as many of them have ancestors that were enslaved relatively recently. That combined that with the economic issues in black communities, and a political party that has an enormous incentive to continue dividing us by race, and it’s no wonder race relations are what they are.
That being said, we should all seriously question why it is that these young black obviously educated and intelligent Americans are just now learning the truth of the slave trade!
Imagine if e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y watched and knew this, how everything would be different. Some people NEED racism, or the myth of racism to be alive to make a living and retain power.
Alex Haley admitted he wrote a myth for his people. A racist hack for sure.
How would you explain Colonization, Apartheid and Racism which became the offshoot of slavery
@@Samoni0608 Greed, pure and simple. The greedy didn't say to themselves, how can I oppress some dark-skinned people today?; they said, where can I go to make the most money where no one will stop me from doing bad things while I do it?
Note too that the leaders of the colonized areas were often complicit in this, keeping what were basically bribed and selling out their own people to be slaves in mines or on plantations.
Greed is colorblind and a feature of human nature, not confined to people with certain skin colors. As Sowell said, those most at risk were those who were most vulnerable.
Many people need racism to explain away their laziness. It racial oppression that holds them down, not their lack of willingness
We need to ask ourselves, Why are they trying to erase our history now? It is part of an agenda that should concern every American.
Thank you for this very informative video. I am from the Philippines and I want to share with you our own slavery story. Before the Spaniards came to the Philippines in the early 16th century, wealthy Filipinos who were affiliated with royal families, owned Filipino slaves. There were two kinds of slaves then, the favored one who worked and lived with their masters, and the disfavored slaves who worked in the farms and live outside the properties of their masters. They survived by fishing and gathering food. A person becomes a favored slave to repay the debt of their parents. Other slaves were former captured warriors in tribal wars.
Very interesting
Spaniards attested debt slavery was the most common form of slavery. But it was also apparent enslaving maybe wasn't so cruel or violent but more like owning one's time and labour for free. Spaniards were only used to the cruel kind, so upon imposing their rule, the freemen and nobles were able to treat even "house slaves" as "dirt slaves" if you will (I mean the 2 kinds of slaves), and those slaves complained. However even during those times it would seem even the slaves were probably literate to an extent and used some rights to complain and petition, and the slave class would remain early into Spanish rule but likely completely gone by the 18th century as Spaniards really wanted it gone or at least replaced with a new system in encomiendas, haciendas, and such. Also Filipino slavery was probably part of the larger Malayic slave trade that would reach places like Indonesia and Borneo, where Enrique (Henry), Magellan's Malay interpreter slave came from. Just sharing
Oh yeah, there are even theories that the King of Cebu enslaved those Europeans who were left by the departure of Magellan's expedition from the area, while Enrique the Malay slave also escaped from European holders apparently
You shouldn't have to explain or make a disclaimer. Be yourself and don't apologize... we keep coming back because we already know you are good people.
every reaction channel that has black hosts has to give a disclaimer because they receive alot of complaints/warnings from other black Americans. It is a very unique difference between white and black Americans, in particular. No one expects all white Americans to think the same way, vote the same way or respond to every event the same way...but it is expected in the black community and people are seen as sell-outs if they listen/consider other points of view. It's part of what holds the community back as a whole - very unhealthy to shame people for learning, growing and trying new things.
@@AB-ol5uz what you said has been a standing fact for many generations...but it is refreshing to see so many non-white people receiving the truth and facts. I like to see people OPEN to wanting to find the truth... all else follows :)
Exactly, they're good people.
knowledge is power and a worthwhile journey.
Somebody always gets rubbed the wrong way. It doesn't have to make sense or have anything like an actual reason. "Professional Umbrage Takers"
The only way to avoid it is to not say anything....and that's a pretty boring video.
Nevermind.....the silence would rub them the wrong way and they would start screeching like a flock of spoiled, rabid parakeets about that too.
You can't win with assho.... uh....I mean people like that, so you might as well ignore them, do your thing, and have fun while you have a chance. We all have an expiration date, don't ya know?
😂
I am so glad to see a larger wave of black people researching conservatives and trying to listen with an open mind. Thank you 💪🏾
When we create identities, whether conservative, liberal, whatever, we have immediately filtered ourselves and forced ourselves into a corner of what our principles and values are. Because we are for low taxes, must that require us to believe in Jesus and oppose any regulation of guns? Or because I might want clean rivers, and think vaccines have been a good idea, does that mean I must support reparations.
The conservative - liberal divide is the very thing that has created such division. Political beliefs should meet and a very sloppy and unstructured arena. I can believe in Jesus, and believe that puts me into opposition to guns, or whatever. Until that happens, we have no reason to talk and listen to one another. It also creates a much easier channel for authoritarian government, no matter which side of the argument you are on.
Conservatives is one thing. Republicans aren't conservatives though. Libertarians aren't conservatives either.
Show me a republican or a libertarian and I'll show you a liar, cheat and hypocrite.
You might disagree with me, if you do than you might want to explain what's up with : Rand Paul, Gaetz, Cruz, Trump, Madison Cawthorn, Majory T Greene, Mitch, not to mention all those (R) State gov's that are just out to safeguard their backers, and their own, fortune. All of them rather stand with Putin than allies and friends of the USA.
@@prism8289 Yeah except all of the conservative values are positive and ALL of the liberal values are about creating automatons.
@@DangerousWordsPodcast apparently this is above your understanding. Got it.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump creates slaves and psycophants throughout the GOP, that unless they say what he wants them to, unless they do what he wants them to, he turns on them and unleashes his programmed cult that says the same things, utters the same things, uses the same slogans, etc. Dude, you don’t even know what classic conservative values are. So, what is more “conservative”? Catholicism or evangelical Christianity?
All right so I turned 21 in October. I didn't get told any of these things in school. I am still learning these things from people and from places like YT. Trying to snag that wisdom as I can
Love love love you two for having the desire and determination to seek the truth, by way of weighing two or more sides of an issue and then applying critical thinking and asking questions.
God bless you both!
I've been listening to Thomas Sowell for years.
He is one of the most brilliant minds alive today.
Facts and other points of view have been hidden away for years so the information can seem shocking at first.
He is Brillant I wish more people would read him.
sowell is an articulate white supremacist sycophant. he has a great speaking voice. and with it he dupes alot of slow thinking people.
I'm white European, we have been slaves to Ottoman in history, and Rome and Greek and so on, Slavery was common till England get rid of it and the free world from this evil culture,. Then I listen to black In the USA about reparations and Slavery and honestly think Black must be so uneducated, they were the last (in Africa) of the whole world who stop slavery themself ( Mauretania 1980) and now they want reparations and free stuff, they get lucky to get sold in USA if they will be sold to Arabs they will be castrated and raped, not to mention what they will get if they will stay in Africa as slaves (Black ownership was the most brutal) In short, I was thinking every stereotype of black is true. Especially after BLM, defunds the police and black leaders' support for BLM. So I don't want to insult all black here, but my opinion was really bad of them all. Then I get to see videos of Thomas Sowell I couldn't believe my ears, he was and still is the most brilliant mind alive today in USA for sure and he is black. His existence solely improves my view of black. If there will be more black people like Mr. Thomas Sowell there will not be a nation in the world that will look down on Black, they will be well-respected rase, unfortunately, they believe their leaders who convinced them that they are oppressed and victims. What you believe about yourself that you are, be careful what you wish.
@@Gromkiii
Unfortunately, our education system indoctrinates and does not educate. We are taught a false history from elementary school to the universities. Americans, especially blacks are taught to think a certain way. We are taught to be victims and the government owes us something or will take care of us. This is by design. I decided to homeschooling my children 12 years ago because I realized that the education system was dumbing us down. I love and admire Thomas Sowell.
@M B I think you should look it up prob not okay to put on YT
Thomas Sowell thoroughly and meticulously researches everything that he lectures on, you can't go wrong listening to this wonderful articulate man.
Articulate? He’s a professor.
You would hope he would be.
However, history (no pun intended) is replete with scholars just as meticulously crafting their narrative as their research.
NEVER, simply absorb whatever message someone else wants you to believe.
Unfortunately best you can do without the time and experience to effectively research yourself is to read as many different viewpoints as possible.
And for gods sake stop listening to idiots like a Ben Shapiro! He’s not even one of the more intelligent right wing voices.
@@thescourgeofathousan It took you a lot of nothing said, to get the opportunity to insult Ben Shapiro. Why do I think that is all you really wanted to say, and felt like you needed to come up with a very bad disguise?
@@richardplummer4992 And your point is.......
If you weren’t there you will never know, History is now! Take pictures and write your experience so that your grand children have real accurate stories to read… Fact! As an individual you are not here because of slavery. You are here because your mom and dad had a rondevoux.. if not you would not exist.
I like these two because they seem like they love everyone regardless of skin color.
Anyone who doesn’t do that is deficient. Skin colour is no clue to the person.
@@seantighe3077 Unfortunately lately that hasn’t been the case.
Lately among Black Democrats there has been a vicious racism toward white people that is no less intense then racism in the 1920s towards black people.
So now in 50 years the children of white people today will have a right to demand reparations from Black Democrats for racism.
I love Thomas Sowell so much. He may be one of the most prolific writers of our time. Pick any of his books and have a read for yourself. I recently read A Conflict of Visions.
The reason the Europeans bought slaves from Africa was because of numbers. European-controlled colonies in North and South America needed workers, and the African slavers were offering slaves in numbers that no other area could provide.
Something that is only now being talked about is the trans-Arabian slave trade, in which some 8 million Europeans -- you know, white folk -- were snatched by Arab slavers and sold into slavery in Asia, India, and the Middle East. When I was studying history, I was surprised to learn that the Arabs captured and carried away to slavery entire towns along the coast of Greece, Italy, France, and the Balkans, and no one ever talked about it. Traditionally, European participation in slavery was always as slavers and never as victims, but it turns out that nearly as many European slaves were being taken as were Africans.
Also, no one talks about Native Americans, who enslaves both whites and blacks, or the Mexicans, who enslaved EVERYBODY!
One of my history instructors once said that there are no ethic groups that haven't been slavers, and there are no ethnic groups that haven't been slaves. Its a much more complicated topic than anyone thinks.
I always said, everyone’s ancestors have been a slave at one time or another in history. And everyone’s ancestors have been slave owners at one time or another in history. Humans are not very nice.
Lol yeah us Mexicans did do that lol good times we need to make Mexico great again 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 but ur wrong we do talk about it our name Mexican comes from the word Mexica "mechica" meaning mixed bloods when the natives in Mexico were finally conquered by the Spanish they forced bred with the women aka raped and took on a as slave to create a new race Mexicas who the Spanish thought would be loyal to the crown but we said fuck that shit and fought back it's common knowledge in Mexico that we were slave for the majority of time
Is that why many folks from the Mediterranean area are brown/olive skin thick eyebrows(see Antonio Banderas)due to enslavement of folks from those area's from people from the Middle East? I ask because being Mexican American I know the reason a majority of modern Mexican population look as we look many with blonde hair and blue eyes is because we're a product of Spanish/European and Indigenous/Native American bloodline.
Beautifully said.
The Slavic nations of Eastern Europe were actually named by the Muslims of Spain. It referred to the region where slaves come from.
Never apologize for just trying to learn different perspectives and mentalities. People that criticize should mind their own business.
Bingo!
It's not even trying to learn a new perspective.
They are learning facts and TRUTH, and the fact that you will be branded a "RAHCIST" for that is disgusting.
@@BasementPepperoni so you love black people?
Of course I love black people, I'm not an SJW.
Having a conversation is so key. So many things get lost when you aren't allowed to talk about things
I came across this channel yesterday and I love watching the progress for Asia as she is getting a deep understanding of everything. Education is beautiful. Keep up the great work.
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.
One of the greatest modern day Americans.
@@jameskennedy721 ok man. Good luck with that.
@@jameskennedy721 Give it a rest James name one honest democrat I’ll be waiting -Clinton Collusion much ? go back to bed
Sowell is brilliant
@@jameskennedy721 he's clearly the cleanest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, as evidenced by the entirety of so call intelligence agencies and all of the uniparty up his ass for 5+ years with a magnifying glass searching for anything that even smelled illegal coming up completely empty. Only an idiot could disagree, in the face of this concrete truth
@@jameskennedy721 That's quite a leap there from his comment. Please stop.
At the height of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, there were more slaves in Africa under African masters than there ever were in the Western Hemisphere. In my country Kenya, the slave trade ended in the 1920's. And even then, some form of it existed decades later. There are Africans who take pride in having descended from great slave owning families, believe it or not. So when many Africans hear the Black American perspective on race, we think it lacks nuance and is very narrow. Keep up the good work though.
There were also more black slaves in Brazil than the U.S. also there were more white slaves in the Ottoman Empire than black slaves in the U.S.
@@WyoSavage1976 There were also more slaves in Jamaica alone than in the USA in total. The west indies after the other europeans showed up had the most slaves in the western hemisphere.
Hey Derrick! I have been to Kenya and other African countries both on the East and West coasts. As an American I found it interesting that most all the African's I met and talked to have a completely different view of slavery than American's do.
@@hainleysimpson1507 Seeing that you are so knowledgeable about slavery in the USA. Care to tell me when the last slave was set free in the USA, doesn't need to be a specific year, just in what decade of what century did that happen?
@@WyoSavage1976 facts
I am so impressed and thankful for your objectivity and sense of fairness. You are extremely bright and insightful. I enjoy your show immensely.
As an old white guy from the south, I knew this history but from the perspective of bigoted hill billies who felt they were superior to other races. As I grew older and traveled and had the opportunity to live amongst other races, I began to read history and it blew my mind. We are ALL human and need to look out for one another. I love it that you youngins' are expanding into common sense and overcoming the prejudice of this country. Don 't hold hatred in your hearts.....it serves no purpose. Blessings to you both....Cheers 😎👍
@@enturnetrol7869 yep, truly spoken. Kentucky, Indiana is just that. I also was educated in Virginia and Georgia as a child. I got all the racist BS a person could stomach.....from school and from relatives. I'm 'all in' for keeping democracy open to all. There's good ideas coming from everyone......and we need to quit excluding half our population (women) in decision making as well.
@@enturnetrol7869
Once again, accurate and historically correct.
We are once again confronted with people (of all political opinions) splitting families, towns, churches, states into finite ‘other’ to each other…..we’ve become our own bogeyman.
Russians did a good job of disinformation.
Looks like we can’t get beyond “beliefs” long enough to solve problems we all face.
Not a good plan….
Thomas Sowell is one of the smartest men in America. He is a man of facts and logic. I could listen to him for hours.
@@jameskennedy721 Actual facts, actually.
And what does Kelly Anne Conway have to do with this? Answer = nothing. Plus, the only thing she was fired from was a military advisory board by Biden in a petty political move, not for anything she did.
Get the facts straight.
@@jameskennedy721 You better hurry, the nut job train is leaving.
@Atheos B. Sapien Let me guess, Sowell and Peterson are both infinitely smarter than you.
LOL, "made up facts", then he can't list one and ghosts the thread 🤣🤣🤣
@@jameskennedy721 go away troll... unless you can post your books... oh wait... you're not educated. Thanks for playing though!
I’m a 64 year old former teacher
1995-2020. I knew all this and more. I taught my students what was in the books that was true, what was I the books that were lies and propaganda and what was missing. I had students of all races but wanted them all to live their authentic lives based on the truth and to have the ability to put themselves in other peoples shoes and to understand their perspectives. I found being honest just made them respect me and caused them to be more inquisitive and use their critical thinking skills.
I bet you were an amazing teacher. Just from this little passage I want to learn from you ☺️
48 year old white guy (current Work Specialist for our local High School), and I didn't know this until a few months ago. I figured we all had taken slaves because we all have the capability of great evil, or, great selfishness, so it does make sense. I don't think it will ever be taught. I work with and for our only black teacher in our school system. THat lady is by far more intelligent than myself and most of our other teachers. She has taught this a little bit, but she's with special needs kids now so her great knowledge is not being fully utilized. I do think a lot of white folks will use this as a "see, we didn't do nothing wrong"...which is of course totally untrue. I just want us to all be real with each other, and maybe we can finally get on true equal terms, or at least the opportunity. I know I will die, probably learning new things right up until my mind simply won't work anymore.
Thomas Sowell is a propagandists. You don't know the "real " Thomas Sowell.
You're a 64 year old teacher. Do you remember Thomas Sowell was a controversial figure from the early 1970s to 1985. Also, did you inform your students that 35% of the AfroAmerican slave population were considered skilled labor during this period of time in history: carpenters, masonry workers, blacksmiths, tanners, skilled metal and wood craftsmen, construction workers, etc., etc. And Benjamin Banneker was not the lone AfroAmerican architect. In fact, the economic value of AfroAmerican slaves was more than the White yeoman farmers in the South during slavery. Essentially AfroAmerican slaves built the infrastructure from Colonial American to the beginning of the Civil War. Had not been for AfroAmerican slaves Colonial America would had never emerged becoming the United States. And Frederick Douglass was the brainchild of the federal policies for Reconstruction, not Abraham Lincoln. Did you inform your students freed slaves reconstructed the South during Reconstruction. Now, question why Thomas Sowell an Economist never cites these facts. Reread my second sentence written in this post. That second sentence is the start in a road map why Thomas Sowell had never and will not utter such facts in this vein.
I’m watching many videos of a new generation discovering Thomas Sowell. One of the greatest thinkers , teachers , historians, economists in the country for decades .
Thomas Sowell is truly genius‼️ He’s been trying to teach the truth forever. But so many refuse to listen..they would rather hate.
One of the first slave owners in the west,(here), was a black man. Read more of Mr. Sowells books,he’s amazing.
Thomas Sowell is not a genius. Thomas is a polemicist.
Video’s like this aren’t political, they are educational. If someone has a problem with you watching this and other video’s, they don’t have your best interest at hart. Looking for information from other sources and especially sources that the mainstream perspective vilifies, is worth listening to.
absolutely
...and people that refuse to be challenged are often the manipulatorpieceofshit
Well said
They've made history political. Democrats voted against civil rights from slavery up to voting for segregation to continue.
Agreed. This information isn't opinionated, like the corporate news is.
Best interest at hart? Like kevin hart?
Now, the cats, out of the bag !
Keep going with this series...
Thomas Sowell, an American treasure.
Great job on this - absolute props for your reactions and discourse on this video - just subbed! Keep up the great work
Thank You so much for your sub ❤️❤️ we really appreciate it!
Spanish Autor Cervantes, was enslaved for a time. And in USA people vandalizad his statue as if he was a slave owner and it was the other way around.
When someone says you shouldn't watch something ask yourself why. Never stop learning 😎
This! 👆
@ John McClain, I’m 71 years old and I try to learn something new every day.
When people told me not to listen to Ben Shapiro and Milo Younopolis, i asked why and judged for myself not based on how they wanted me to perceive them.
I'm so happy people are waking up and finding Thomas Sowell.
Same, like with JP. Can’t Believe the Uptake in reaction videos. Great to see people finally Sourcing Out accurate information
Same. He deserves so much more attention.
My rule of thumb: Any time someone tells me to “wake up” to the “truth THEY won’t tell you”, they’re either selling partisan political Narrative, or diet pills. ;)
You have to ask, why is he being kept hidden?
@@bod-essebod-esse4142 it really is quite simple why. Knowledge is power. The more you can keep a population 'ignorant', the more control you have over them. It goes beyond the political, religious, left, right, pro-this, anti-this...if a group wishes to subjugate another, they just have to keep them mis-informed from the truth. Sad reality.
Sowell is probably the most influential historian in American history...and the most courageous.
A true national treasure!
He is an economist, not a historian. He speaks on history but is not truly trained or deeply informed on the matter.
Great man. Still alive too! 🙏👑 😎
@@corvanna4438 ironically, him being an economist is what allows him to be such a great historian. Most historians are ignorant of the part economics play in historical events. Even some the most well received historians have trouble differentiating vastly different economic systems.
@@supremecaffeine2633 economics are only one part of history. No, he is not the most influential American historian. He is on par with Mr Foote. People who have weak grasps on the past think he is bold. Those that have studied the past know he is frequently wrong.
@@corvanna4438 One major part of history almost ignored by standard historians. Those who have studied tend to forget just how important economics is to any given even. Y
You claim the Sowell is wrong, but just what is he wrong about?
Thank you so much for doing this. It makes me so happy to see younger people interested and engaged so intelligently and intuitively. I've been educating myself all my life as I left school dat 15 du to unbearable bullying and hit the streets of Australia.
Since the internet and the lockdowns AND my discovery of Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson and the like I've been learning SOOOO much. I've changed my view and opinion on many important topics. I was brainwashed and programmed in so many ways and I just regurgitated what people I liked said. Hope it gives you as much enjoyment as it does me. It's terrifying how much they've lied to us about....and continue to! Love from UK
This story is exactly how my parents taught me about slavery. Other blacks enslaved and sold other blacks. When I visited the plantation in Louisiana, it became clear to me where most of the slaves sold from Africa ended up, a lot of them laid curses on the ground before they departed, most recently the badagry slave port,then earlier times was the blight of Biafra, to calabari, Upper Volta, The Gambia, Ethiopia…There was a kitchen mortar and pestle I used in pounding yam growing up and still use today that I saw in the kitchen of the plantation in Christie’s plantation in Louisiana . When I worked in the aviation industry I learned all our pilots mostly Europeans and Americans(caucasians) when infected with malaria, it quickly became cerebral malaria for them. This was just recently as 2012/2013. The white couldn’t survive the hinterland of Africa then. when I moved to America, and I hear the African community talk so much about slavery and their people being oppressed I realized there was a disconnect of info, the Africans sold their own, I never blame the whites 100%, it has always been survival from generation to generation, and to make money. if there was supply and there definitely would be demand and vice Versa. I always ask one question, show me 1 African Arabs community that exists; none. The Arabs bought more black slaves that any European and kept buying, many’s years after it ended in the west. The Arabs castrated every black male slaves. In Tripoli market before the ouster of king Idris they sold slaves in the market. Ending it was Ghaddafi’s first act. My advise to us blacks stop taking anything the media say, search for yourself and read, is it not the same white man we claim enslaved and oppressed us we still consume informations from?
You sir, are a breath of fresh air. The way this revisionist history has been propagated without care for any nuance speaks to the fact that, there's an agenda of division.
Thanks for sharing, I just learned a lot in your short explanation. You gave me an incredible insight again thank you very much.
The situation is Libya was made much worse when the Obama administration decided to remove Ghaddafi permanently from power thus reopening the trans-Mediterranean slave trade. The inhumane practice still exists on the continent with young children slaving away on cocoa plantations or highly dangerous and radioactive cobalt mines. Slavery is free labor which is why these global multinational corporations rely on it for massive profits. We love our cheap goods, but don't discount the human cost.
another thing to consider are the people of other ethinic backgrounds including whites in UK and USA who fought and died to free all people of any skin color besides those from Africa,as the Irish people and even chinese who lived in other countries as slaves before. That part of history has been conveniently cancelled by some forces around the world as it has also been the information of who promoted those practices on their own people. Man in general can be a very evil beast for the purposes of selfish and materialistic short term gains to be left all behind with lots to pay for in their after life.
The Arabs are still buying and selling African slaves to this day...in the libya slave trade Google it
This was taught in my youth at school in England, common knowledge. Unfortunately today's society wants this knowledge white washed from history and our minds.
No need to apologise, your doing a great job educating yourselves and others 👏 👍
Same in America during the 60s and 70s.I went to Catholic schools so I don't know if our public schools had similar lesson plans.
How about the british did not stop slavery bye a good heart ........I bet these right wing people dont tell people about that TRUE history ......
Anybody who takes a Black History class today will learn all of this stuff. The claim that this is not being taught is sheer nonsense.
@@BlackStudies that's my point my friend . Why should you have to take a black history class, when years ago it was just taught as history?
Kudos to both of you for having the courage and wisdom to offer us reasonable different viewpoints!
So glad you folks are educating yourselves and helping spread the word!
Never let them make you uncomfortable about being a free person, this stuff needs to stop. I thought we all would have learned our lesson on this by now.
It’s a beautiful thing when the scales fall from your eyes, and you realize the truth is far more complex then you are told by people who want to inspire you to hate.
So much misinformation and myths create that hate. I love seeing history and truth wake up young eyes. Funny that a similar thing happened to my son's friend yesterday. She's a 12 year old music lover. We were watching Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concert series together. One soloist was a beautiful black soprano. But the episode was filmed in 1961! That means several years before the Civil Rights amendment. The friend was so confused. She thought the struggle was universal and all-encompassing during the 60's. But many people were educated enough to be ready to move forward. Marian Andersen's incident a decade earlier was a wake-up call for many.
Just like "climate change". I am against pollution but to think humans can actually change the earth on a geological scale is pure hubris. The earth is in no danger presented by humans. If we detonated EVERY nuclear weapon at one time, 100 years from now, discounting what amounts to background radiation, nobody could tell the difference, if we remained.
@@newlywedbeth Ask yourself how many Black youths were left out, because of the color of their skin. The first Black football player at the University of Alabama wasn't until 1969. This isn't ancient history.
@@Acdc5 true. Many outlets were more difficult to break through. The arts started the trend, and the sports followed.
@@newlywedbeth The segregation laws that were in place stated separate but equal, but as we all know that was not the case and it still isn't. Especially when schools in affluent neighborhoods have better learning materials and teachers. I often wonder how much more George Washington Carver could have accomplished if he were at Yale University. By the way I am a retired professional musician and history has been until this day one of my favorite subjects.
Thomas Sowell is a National treasure that so many never get to read or hear of him. I am 59 WW and not only learned most of this in high school, I also learned a lot from trips my family made. My parents were big about learning history. One reason I am so sorry so many statues were destroyed is that we would stop at them and learn about them and what we need to know to hopefully not do it again.
Hello Asia and BJ and anyone who might read this. I found the Slavery History lesson very interesting. I read a book years ago called White Gold, I think I still have it, surname of the author Giles. It was about the Barberry Cost Pirates of northern Africa who attacked small villages in Cornwall Bristol southern England aswell as south Wales and enslaved whole communities to take back and sell to the Persians. I am a great admirer of Bob Marley and recently learned his Redemption Song. Then I thought to myself many people might think why the hell would an old white man be singing this song and I surmised that my ancestors where slaves too. I have always looked at people as humans regardless of their colour creed sex or religion. I wish that all peoples could do the same and then racism and all the other isms would cease to exist. Peace Love and Tolerance to all. Billy;)
I lived in sub-Saharan Africa for over a decade, near some of the slave ports. All the African slaves were taken prisoner by other black Africans and then sold at the slave ports. Slavery was and is horrid but it has nothing to do with race.
The whites did make it about race ,,,,,And why dont we tell the truth about nazi germany then .......
These conservetives wont want to do that right ......
@@edinshealtiel3754 Uh, no they didn't. The Portuguese (who imported slaves to the US) didn't pick and choose slaves based by race. Simply never happened.
That's false, all African slaves were not captured by Africans.
@@yaseen5121 Really? Who captured them?
Thomas Sowell should be required reading. The man is brilliant....and his research is beyond reproach.
Dr. Walter Williams is also an excellent source.
Exactly
@@markthompson9056 Indeed he is!
@@emilianosintarias7337 Do you have an exact and in context example???
@@emilianosintarias7337 Are you referring to the 100+ year old fairy-tale that's gone from global "warming", to global "cooling", back to global "warming", to climate "disruption", to climate "change".....and the man-made demise of humankind in.....how many years do we have left now??? It's so hard to keep up as the goal posts are CONSTANTLY changed. To say nothing of the myriad of laughable predictions that have never materialized, yet naive simpletons STILL fall for the Chicken Little bullshit designed to move trillions of dollars and centralize unlimited power to the elected class of degenerate leftists.
That climate "change" denying???LOL
"Believes in financial regulation"??? Way to narrow it down!!!LOLOLOL
Great history lesson! I think a lot of black people may not want to embrace the "total story" of slavery because they THINK it would "lesson" what happened to us in this country in the Atlantic slave trade. But that's ridiculous! It doesn't change the sin, horror, or reality of that at all. It just gives you a more broad picture of the truth about slavery in the world. Not just America. Appreciate this video. Thanks guys!
This is great & keep it up! You guys are awesome! Thanks for asking the tough questions...this is the only way to understand each other! I just learned about what happened after slavery was outlawed in Britain and was blown away on how they went from efficiently purchasing slaves to actively protecting against slavery... mainly at sea! Really interesting stuff!
The British actually ended Trans Atlantic and Trans Indian and Trans Saharan slavery. USA only ended slavery in the USA. Britain, at the time had the greatest navy in history, dedicated a quarter of their entire navy to stopping and crushing slavery in the Atlantic and another quarter to doing the same in the Mediterranean and Indian ocean. I'm a Jamaican and i did history in high school in Jamaica.
Preach
You seem to have got a better education than kids in the UK are getting at the moment
@@lickspittle1 I'm British and learned this when I was at school. Mind you I am 66.
At the time. the USA could only end slavery in the USA.
The British Crown took out a large, long-term loan to finance that operation. They only just finished paying on it in 2014. They were _serious._
It’s an interesting experience to see enlightenment in someone’s eyes when they realize they just learned something they were completely unaware of.
My dad taught me this 50 years ago. Yalls are good kids and love your show.
I’m a middle aged white Chinadian (formerly known as Canadian) and I was so blown away by this book and Thomas Sowell that I had to read that book twice - back to back. Our media LIES.
I studied a lot of medieval and ancient history and yeah, people have been horrible to others for a VERY long time. Vikings would sometimes kidnap monks from monasteries, castrate them, and sell them as eunuchs in the east. Romans would have slaves fight to the death in stadiums as gladiators for entertainment. In the Bible, Moses led the Jewish slaves out of Egypt, and even after that, the Jews still had slaves of their own for years to come. This stuff goes WAY back.
Romans were equal opportunity slavers they enslaved all races.
The muslim tribes kept slave way past America but they castrated all the males. I know another of European countries held slaves but not in their own borders. They set up colonies abroad and milked those area's to get rich. South America was full of them. You never hear about those dam Dutch slavers but they had them think in Brazil
Is there some reason you didn't bring up 1600 years of Islamic slaving? That the Prophet himself owned slaves? Or that slave markets are operating in Muslim countries RIGHT NOW? Many of the European slaves (far more than 'monks') Vikings captured were women and young boys, destined for the harems of the Muslim world. Muslim silver drove Viking expansion.
@@SEKreiver Sure, a YT comment is only so long and I'm not gonna be able to cram pages and pages of history into it, so obviously I left a lot of stuff out. I was going for just a quick couple of sentences. You're absolutely right though, all of what you said is true, but I only had so much room and time to put into a comment - I feel like that's fairly well understood about comments.
The Vikings abducted people close to the rivers and coasts all around Europe. Mostly they were looking for attractive women for the harems of wealthy men(sheikhs, princes, merchants, kings etc) in the Islamic world.
Education is and always has been the way out of group think. Being an independent thinker is the goal. Not denying anything but objectively considering all the facts. Love the channel.
I am very grateful to Thomas and y'all for this presentation. I have known this for a many decades. I love all people but have racism brought on by ignorance and divisive elite.
I love it when people educate themselves. Love you guys, rock on!
I was in grade school in the 1970s and graduated in the late 80s and we learned this. Books are not "out dated" , books are manipulated to fit a liberal race bating theory now a days. If you were to read books from back in the day they taught this.
Love you kids! Love your reactions!
Same age. Indeed.
You’re straight up wrong. I graduated from high school in 2017 and had learned most of what was in the original video while I was still in middle school. The curriculum has not changed, check state standards for Social Studies across the US if you’re still in denial.
Mr Sowell is one of favorite minds, a great man.
Thomas Sowell is America’s greatest thinker and my personal hero. Cheers guys.
Asia - “This is me trying to get a better understanding…” its thoughts like this that keep me watching reaction videos. It’s so much healthier than the constant drumbeat of recrimination that seeks to inflame differences so we don’t unite against tyrannical power seekers. They want people distracted and at each other’s throats so we won’t notice their theft of our freedom, prosperity, and future.
never heard it said better
Yes!! Agreed! We have to unite now more than ever, on the heels of war! We need each other!
The historical record is quite clear: Rather than originating in Colonial America, slavery has existed since we have had recorded history - and before. References are made to slavery as early as 3500 B.C. in ancient Sumer, the world’s first great civilization, founded in Mesopotamia (now in modern Iraq). The famous Code of Hammurabi of Babylon mentions laws concerning slavery around 1860 B.C. Slavery was part of the societies of ancient Egypt, China, Persia, Greece, India, the Roman Empire, the Arab Islamic Caliphate, the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas (such as the Aztecs, the Mayas, and the Incas), and the early kingdoms of Africa.
Individuals were slaves for various reasons, including debt slavery, punishment for crimes, child abandonment, and as prisoners of war. Some were born into slavery.
Rather than accept the vile accusations of the 1619 Project and other radical criticisms saying that the founding of America was centered around slavery, and that slavery was America’s “original sin” and our “peculiar institution,” Americans need to stand up to those who would distort our nation’s founding. America did not originate slavery, but was actually a leader in its ultimate demise.
Nobody ever said that slavery originated in colonial America.
@@izzonj the 1619 project has
@@izzonj you'd be surprised who does! Never underestimate the ignorance of the ignorant...just when you think you've heard it all, they come up with another zinger! There are some that believe history only goes back a few hundred years.
@@eq1373 No it did not.
@@eq1373 Have you read the 1619 project?
I love these kinds of videos. A lot of us are learning right along with you.
What are learning you should have already known
He is a legend. Many thanks to Larry Elder, for introducing me to Mr. Sowell's work. Life changing.
Never apologize for broadening your knowledge. I watch a lot of stuff I don't agree with just to understand another point of view. That's what real knowledge is- not just listening to your own echo chamber. Kudos
I have so much respect for people who are open to learning. Professor Sowell has been a favorite of mine for decades. I love to see you use you tube as a teaching tool. You never know how many young people you might reach.!
This is deep. Thank you
i believe theres a part 2 too this video thats just as much a great lesson
I've actually tried to explain this exact piece of history to people for years and could rarely get anyone to even partially believe me. Knowledge is key to everything. Sometimes we just have to dig a little deeper to get the entire picture.
“Knowledge is key to everything. “ absolutely correct!! And that goes for any subject. Been there, done that. Sometimes it takes a lot of time and effort, but always worth it to get to the truth. But like you said, even with all the facts, people still won’t accept the truth. Sometimes it’s just a hard pill to swallow. Have a good day.
How can a person indoctrinated by propaganda learn the truth when they won't look for it?
It should not be hard to talk about. It is history. It is a cultural time that was wrong and still happens today. The problem is we make it about color when truly the most people who have been enslaved it is from their own people. It was across the whole world. Our kids need to know the truth and not feel uneasy discussing it.
the lifelong slave trade is historically all about color.
Very true. 50-90% of all slaves taken to feed the transatlantic slave trade died in Africa, at the hands of Africans.
What most people experienced before the United States enslaved Africans is irrelevant.
Great video and thanks for spreading this around. Why schools don't teach this has me thinking much effort goes into keeping people apart. All the talk of wanting to get the Country back together again is something to help people get elected and nothing else.
Slavery exists today as well; it's generally called something like human trafficking.
Y'all should read that book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". It is filled with deep dives into several subjects. I haven't found a Thomas Sowell book yet that hasn't filled me with excellent knowledge, and a lot more context.
Now that is a great book!
Yes! Definitely check this book out!
Did he tell you his family fled from the Jim Crow South when he was eight years old.
I'm so happy Sowell is receiving increased attention and exposure these days. I see so many reaction videos of Sowells content. He is a monumental mind. His works have enlightened and liberated Me.
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When I went to school in the 80’s and 90’s they taught us this.
So What
God Bless Asia! It takes a lot of Courage to have an Open Mind!!!!
NEVER apologize for educating yourselves to the truth! There would be more peace amongst us if EVERYONE would do the same! And you & others putting this type of content is the beginning of us getting there & stop letting the government LIES divide us any longer! 😉🙏🏻Love y’all 💞
This should be taught everywhere, in every culture…the truth should never be censored…imagine how much better our society would be, if the whole truth had always been known and written in history books, instead of the propaganda and false narratives we have been exposed to all this time…all so we would be divided and always at conflict, so we would be distracted, as to what our government is doing and so they would always have something to supposedly save us from…great reaction guys 👍❤️
Thomas Sowell is a man of genius and is extremely insightful. He does NOT get credit he truly deserves.
Good on you both for being open to hear other people's opinions and tell others that its ok to hear both sides of a story.
When it came to slaves on the western world more slaves, about 90%, went to South America. In the U.S.A. only 3% of people had black slaves.
US 1860 census. 30% of Southern Households owned a slave. Don't count the more populated North which had a handful of slave surviving. And don't count the wives and children who won't own the slaves in a Household.
It's a shame that you will never hear this message from mainstream black leaders like AL Sharpton or Louis Farakan.God bless Thomas Sowell!!!
Thats because they are race hustlers who could care less about their people unless it profits them.
Nobody thinks Farrakhan is mainstream nor has he been relevant for 20 years.
What message did he convey exactly?
@@mrh6237 look it up or are you to lazy to listen to his racist bs
Listen to Larry Elder and Candace Owens. They discuss this kind of stuff.
It’s amazing when your eyes get opened to the truth and you find out you or no better than the people you were taught to hate!!!!! Very refreshing and there is hope for humanity after all!!!!! Only the whole truth will set you free not just the parts they want you to know about!!!!! Enough with the myths!!!!!! To live by!!!!!!!
Thomas Sowell is incredible! The problem is many don't like reading which is Tom's bread and butter. He has traveled the world to find the truth! Please do more of his videos you will see he's a genuine guy not trying to sway you left or right he just wants to provide you Truth!
Glad you found him, found him years back , being a native kid not living on a rez and getting schooled in public schools and what I was taught about my heritage, I hated, so I started researching myself, the sides not told , gets really interesting, cause the history books as I found are a one sided way at looking at things , so it’s important to continue learning and research
I love how open you guys are about uncomfortable revelations and "against-the-grain" facts. Power to you both! 👍👍👍
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. This man's journey, his transformation in life, his thought process, and what he has achieved is nothing short of amassing. 100% the American dream. I have often seen him miss understood with short clips miss representing his true thoughts. Everyone should deep dive this mans life. He has over 40 books published and has been making congress look stupid since the 70's. No one can actually debate with him because he dose not do research to support a opinion. He dose research to find facts and form an opinion. Even if that opinion is unpopular. True American hero !!
He hasn't published an academic paper in over 30 years. Do you understand the significance of the implications.
Thank you both for seeking knowledge and truth!
Please react to 'The hidden truth behind the end of slavery' by Thomas Sowell. It tells an amazing story that has been largely written out of history. Seeing this made me look deeper in to the whole forgotten episode.
They taught this to us in HS in the 80's. History has not changed but the books have!
Books haven’t changed, I was taught nearly everything in the original video and graduated in 2017. Stop believing everything you see online.
@@oneshot9093 What?
Better to get older books for kids to learn and not be indoctrinated.
Why is this man not elevated more in our society? We all need to remember history. It's the only way we can grow as a species
I loved your video and this is the History I learned and taught my child. I'm in my 50's and I went to a private school and like it or not we was told the very sad and ugly truth about Slavery and how Africans had a big role in it. We were also taught the Democratic Party is the Party that founded and fought for Slavery in the USA while Republicans fought against it.
This is so true. Throughout human history slavery was just a fact of life, strong over the weak. Your people lose a battle or war and you happened to survive you would probably be enslaved afterwards. Nothing to do with skin color, sex, or location on the planet you are from, just strong over the weak.
Unfortunately it became a racial thing. Then when people tried to stop that, the people who were wanting to keep people slaves because of their skin color revolted and tried to make their own country but were rightfully defeated in their attempt, thereby officially ending slavery of all types in North America. Yes. other places throughout this world had slavery for longer, and unfortunately in some places to this day still have it. However, Thomas Sowell destroyed the racist component of slavery in just one sentence!
So much harm has been caused by this whole "racist slavery" lie throughout the centuries! Some people say that slavery is the United States' original sin, but if that is true then slavery is the original sin for all civilizations throughout the history of humanity! Unfortunately it took until the 18th and 19th centuries to finally do something about it! All men are created equal! It took wars to finally bring that about!
"...thereby officially ending slavery of all types in North America..."
Except... it didn't, not even by a long shot.
That slavery became an racist issue is upon the USA. That there are people in the USA that don't know anything about slavery prior to that, or anything outside the USA nor inside the USA, is a USA problem. Not the worlds fault that the education system in the USA is crap.
No one ever said that slavery was a solely USA problem. But it not being that doesn't equate to then shrug your shoulders and doing nothing about it.
One can draw a clear line from slavery in the USA to the entire fake CRT banning BS. One can draw a clear line from the Jim Crow laws to the entire voter surpression/identification laws. Not wanting to see that means that even today there are people that are ignoring history, facts and public available information.
Slavery became so much a racist issue in the USA that the Southern Baptist got created over it.
So a sub-sect got created because in their eyes the bible stated that the white man should rule over the black man nowadays have 1 million+ black believers. Talk about drinking the kool-aid.
The truth does not fear facts, but welcomes them. Respect real history, understand how we got where we are. Realize racism doesn't require power or wealth, or color hatred is hatred.
Thomas Sowell is truly a great man. We can all learn alot from this man no matter what color you happen to be.
A search for knowledge and TRUTH, breeds wisdom; which is a noble goal in every person of every age. I wish you well and pray God will bless and protect you both.
So glad to see Thomas Sowell getting some attention. He is brilliant, and unlike so many others, he’s not in it for the money.