The Trump Presidency 2.0

[AWP]

Way too many Nigerians and Somalis in this country for it to be 97% unless we're talking about descending from slaves in Africa...

I've always thought it to be in 80-percent range, but can see 90-ish percent. I've never bought into the 97 percent number but I have seen it tossed around which is why its included. A problem historians get into is absent accurate records you'll see some very broad ranges when it comes to numbers. People killed in a war, a battle, a disease epidemic, etc. They become semi-educated guesses at that point because the data is so incomplete.

 

[The Quartermaster]

And yet certain populations want reparations on things that happened 200-300 years ago despite no evidence their family was involved at all.....

Selfish greed, not because it was an injustice. My family came from Europe way after they were freed here. Yet they insist that we too owe reparations. If that's their logic, then their logic is based on a very racist fallacy. Which to my eyes is the very proof we needed to see that they have no argument other than one based on lies, hate, and deceit.

 

[The Quartermaster]

If FDR didn't intern 150,000 Japanese it might have been common enough in the American life that they would have made this movie about Sushi instead of Chinese food. With Six You Get Eggroll - Wikipedia

But really, someone on the X the other day was like "why wasn't Sushi common before 2010". Well my friend, let's go down this dark path of racism that occurred during the great WWII. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 provided reparations to survivors of internment camps, a check of $20,000 each. Fairly certain that's a decent chunk of change in 1988 but not enough to get your life back if you owned a home in the good part of town and a business. Because that check was 40 years late. Maybe it was helpful to those born in the camps.

One of my friend's is a descendent of. His family never cashed their check. Instead they had it framed along with the flags of their relatives who served for this nation during that time and afterwards.

 

[Topkick]

Selfish greed, not because it was an injustice. My family came from Europe way after they were freed here. Yet they insist that we too owe reparations. If that's their logic, then their logic is based on a very racist fallacy. Which to my eyes is the very proof we needed to see that they have no argument other than one based on lies, hate, and deceit.

Overall it was something like 3% of Americans owned slaves, but if only 1/4 of southerners owned slaves, I think an argument can be made that the civil war was not only about slavery. Yet, thats the narrative.

 

[AWP]

Overall it was something like 3% of Americans owned slaves, but if only 1/4 of southerners owned slaves, I think an argument can be made that the civil war was not only about slavery. Yet, thats the narrative.

The problem is when the states seceded, the "right" to own slaves was mentioned over and over, both in published and unpublished documents.
The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States

The declaration acts themselves usually do not mention slavery, but causes of the declaration in documents and speeches made by the governors almost always include maintaining slavery as a root cause. Where it gets ugly is that most Southerners did not own slaves, but they supported or accepted the practice, so even if the rich owned slaves and that was the published reason to go to war, it was accepted by the masses because of their financial ties to the practice.

And that gets into a real ugly argument among some, but one I support, which is slavery came down to simple economics. States right and slavery were secondary to making money and most Southerners made money directly or indirectly from slavery. The Lost Cause Myth turned it into a question of states' rights, steering it away from the root cause(s).