Years ago, an interracial couple started writing a book on slavery. It was called “Time on the Cross.”
Like the WPA interviewers who talked to actual slaves in the 1930’s, the couple ran into a problem. They were doing a study to show how hard the system was on blacks as a losing economic institution.
Just as those WPA interviewers couldn’t find the hatred they were looking for because they were dealing with reality, the studies in that book destroyed the most potent myth about slavery: that it was not only evil and cruel, it was inefficient.
This is sort of like adding the outrage one gets when he says that someone was killed, AND all the killer got was $20. Somehow that makes the murder secondary.
But the actual econometric studies, the first ever done on plantations of the Old South, showed slavery was not only efficient, but that most of the product went to the slaves.
It is as the black comedian George Wallace says:
“Oh, yea, I know about slavery. That’s the last time all the black folks had JOBS.”
China is now making heavy investments in Africa. They are likely to make a lot off of them, as the West could not.
Other do not invest in Africa because it is unstable. The Chinese will not allow any instability that affects THEIR investments.
Black working habits in Africa tend to be childlike. They leave the job before they can be fully trained, so you can’t invest in training. I doubt seriously that that will be a problem for the Chinese.
To boil it down to Whitakerese, the Chinese have bought Africans from their chiefs, the way we did our own slaves. The Chinese make Simon Legree look like a wimp.
It is likely to WORK and be announced as a Great Victory for Socialism and African Genius. Everything is either ignored or announced as a Great Victory for Mommy Professor by the media.
For two generations, China was the North Korea of the world. It was the one place where people died of hunger and it was not getting better. China is still very low in per capita productivity, but that is not what QUOTED statistics show. QUOTED statistics show that since they abandoned the Great Leap Forward and so forth and started selling Chinese labor abroad, they are not starving now.
In fact, the Chinese are eating almost as well as the slaves in the Old South did.
From actual starvation to meat once a week shows up on the graphs as a giant jump.
And China has the most effective Fugitive Slave provisions on earth.
Why didn’t WE think of that?
#1 by BGLass on 07/31/2010 - 8:44 am
“…In fact, the Chinese are eating almost as well as the slaves in the Old South did.”
And that’s not nothing, seemingly according to the 1865 census. Meat and organic fish every night. A single person of any race could not do the 1865 slave grocery list in U.S. on $250 a week.
I never understood why blacks didn’t make the argument that they were immensely VALUABLE under slavery, and to the South, instead of keep going on about the oppression. Like, why not argue: without us, the South could never have fought off Northern bankers, and so without us, American ideals of freedom, liberty, etc., would not even exist. We made enough money for the South that people s/a Jefferson could even EXIST and write all that great stuff about freedom from banks. Without us, bankers would have taken over your sorry butts a lot faster, the way they have today.
If I was black, that’s what I’d argue. I would remind white Southerners all the time that, yes, freedoms and liberties are gone now, but just think if they hadn’t had cheap labor during the time they did (or whatever). The constitution and declaration and so on would have been steamrolled over so much sooner that PEOPLE WOULDN’T EVEN HAVE what they do now—-an occasional vague memory of it.
If anybody called me a “minority,” I would shriek, “in numbers only, you freak!” and not let them position me that way, as some oppressed victim type. I would tell them to shove it, and give me back the tax money from my paycheck.
But then, I’m not black. All “empowerment” talk is underwritten by the ideal of “disempowerment” (oppression, etc.). Real empowerment would be making a whole other kind of case about such matters.
#2 by Simmons on 07/31/2010 - 11:56 am
Of course black work habits will not be a problem in Africa the africans can be replaced by Chinese on a one for one basis.
There really is nothing to “liberal intellectuallism”, it being mostly gaseous, vaporous emissions that gather near a logical fallacy protected by taboo.
Without respectable conservatives to shriek and shout about the omnipotent left Leftism is mostly just silly shtick.
At takimag a respectable named Emmit Tyrell lets the cat out of the bag about respectability and liberals. No use linking since we cover it daily but it shows the relationship between a moron respectable named Fred Barnes and the cultists on the “journolist.”
Suffice to say America’s “elite” are cretinous morons.
#3 by Dave on 07/31/2010 - 12:33 pm
The entire nonwhite world is one giant “Indian Reservation”. How “Indians” self-interpret should be of no concern to us whites.
Nonwhites are always going to have some sort of story that explains themselves to themselves. My advice is to take the dangers you encounter on the “Indian Reservation” seriously, but never take what nonwhites think seriously.
Taking what nonwhites think seriously is just as ridiculous as taking the “patter” of anti-white whites seriously.
When I hear an anti-white white carry on his or her nonsense I am hearing nothing different than the conversations I hear from the developmentally disabled hospital cafeteria bus boy crew I encounter on the bus occasionally. I will give you an example of their conversations with each other. I witnessed the following Down ’s Syndrome people interactions on the bus recently:
A big drooling Down’s Syndrome kid named Roscoe yelled to another (big drooling) Down’s Syndrome kid named George: “Hey George! I hear you are going to join the army?”
George replied: “Yep, tomorrow I am going to join the army. You won’t see me around no more.” George continued: “That’s because I like to ride in them big green army trucks!”
Roscoe then replied back to George with real sincerity: “That’s good news because the army needs people like you.”
Suddenly I saw that George’s attention was grabbed by another issue: A big fat Down’s Syndrome girl was waddling down the street as the bus passed. Even though the bus was fully in motion and fully loaded with passengers, George got up from his seat, ran down the bus aisle toward the back of the bus, lurched over seats (that were occupied), muscularly forced the street side bus window open, and emitted the following deafening yell toward the girl (it probably could be heard throughout a five block radius):
“Hi Lulu!!!!!!”
Having the stunned attention of everybody on the bus, George then slammed the bus window shut and stomped dramatically back to his seat. I then heard Roscoe address George in a loud voice that could be heard throughout the bus: “George, you are such a thoughtful person. I bet you made Lulu’s day!”
Witnessing this hilarity, I thought to myself: “These are Marxists talking to one another.”
We need to our minds around Down’s Syndrome to get our minds around Marxism. Both are part of the same phenomenon.
That is why it is very important when you encounter an anti-white white, just think to yourself, Marxism (anti-white whites) and Down ’s Syndrome simultaneously go together.
When you do that, you are beginning to get a realistic handle on Political Correctness.
#4 by Simmons on 07/31/2010 - 3:08 pm
Dave we are channeling, kind of creepy.
Well meaning aquaintance of mine was in the gym last week when he noticed an average black man (not a thug) wearing a big lettered Obama shirt.
He proceeds to tell me he felt it was “racist” of the black man to wear that shirt.
So I took a deep breath and told him to think of said black man as “Corky” and never mind him, but who to mind is the person that inflicts the “Corkys” of the world upon us. Wide eyed realization moment upon him.
#5 by rdc75 on 08/01/2010 - 6:13 am
I disagree, slavery was probably the institution that caused the most harm to Whites in America (not just in the USA but also in the rest of it, especially Brazil)
Slavery brought blacks to America in the first place. Blacks were not even able to settle Madagascar (South East Asians did that – but it seems that they too imported slaves. They are now negroid-mongoloid hybreds who talk a south east asian language, I think Polynesian), they would have never made it to America.
The importation of slaves was a desaster FOR WHITES everywhere it happened: In Haiti, Whites were killed without exception during riots triggered by the French Revolution. In Jamaica and some US-cities, the Whites left by themselves because they could no longer stand the crime. In Brazil, Cuba, the blacks have mingled with the Whites which produced the typical brown poor country. In the old Confederacy it has given the North a reason for war.
Can you name a country that practiced black slavery and is better off because of it?
Slavery was a disaster everywhere. Actually one might even argue that the war against the South has prevented worse for the South because even though the North has burned, looted and destroyed, at least it ended slavery which reduced the black birthrate which was highest during slavery.
Now, don’t think that I’m with the liberals here, I don’t think that Whites should be ashamed of slavery, I think they should be proud that Whites abolished it. If the greeks would have abolished slavery, they would not have become the mongrels they are today. Same goes for the Romans. Same goes for the Protuguese in South America. Same is true for the Brahmans in India.
Even the harshest anti-miscegenation laws cannot prevent the mixing of the races, India had probably the most harsh anti-miscegenation laws thinkable (their religion not just supported them, their whole religion was BASED on them) and they did not work.
Slavery is a sin that sooner or later causes big harm to the masters, not the slaves.