The Holocaust is a major issue that Germans are forced to face. Do you believe it is important to address the darkness of the past in order to move on? Or is it better for a nation to fully embrace the present and ignore the past wrongdoings? For example, discuss the Black Lives Matter campaign in the U.S. and America’s attitude towards its past practice of slavery.
In America, I believe Americans are expected to forever writhe in guilt over an institution, slavery, that wasn’t even founded in racism, but in geographic and economic convenience.
America is no longer a systemically racist country, as evidenced by the fact that some of the most economically successful groups in our country are African migrants.
As a Gambian American, I wish more people would see BLM for what it really is, as freed slave, Booker T Washington, put it in the 19th century, when he said, “There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.”
Black Lives Matter is a perfect example of the class of people Booker T Washington was speaking of; As BLM raised billions of dollars off the backs of black suffering, excused and enabled, the burning of black neighborhoods, by thousands of, mostly suburban, white, liberals.
BLM spent two years fomenting racial hatred in black neighborhoods for the profit of a small, black, and now elite, minority, who used the organizations funds to buy mansions for themselves(i.e. Patrice Cullors).
Let’s celebrate what we are not told about slavery; America’s heroic efforts to abolish slavery around the world. To the point that, we even used American warships to intercept incoming slave ships, who were still importing African slaves to Brazil. In the post war period after, the unjust, Civil War of Aggression perpetuated by the North upon the South, in order to maintain economic hegemony over a seceding South, America and it’s European allies traversed the entire planet in an effort to abolish slavery globally, by intercepting Arab slave traders off the eastern coast of Africa, and likewise, Brazilian slave traders off the coast of South America. So, in regards to slavery, instead of dwelling in guilt for sins modern Americans bear no responsibility for, let’s teach and celebrate the heroism of Vermont and Pennsylvania, respectively, for being the first and second places is the world to abolish slavery. Let’s build museums to celebrate the heroism of the United States, and its European allies, for spending untold amounts of blood, treasure, and time, to abolish slavery across the entire world.
We move on by declaring victory over the moral scourge of slavery, as we should’ve a century ago. We move on with celebration. We won!
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