Michael Harriot on “Black AF History” and America’s “incompetent” white Founders | Salon Talks

[@yasmeenbowie6638]

Great interview thank yall❤

[@eugenemorrow2918]

They should really read up on the Saharan slave trade sometime. Most of the male slaves were castrated.

[@janelfields2284]

Usually when someone tries to move discussion away from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade they do it divert. The Trans Saharan Slave Trade that went on from the 7th-20th Century was also Anti-Black chattel slavery. All forms of slavery, including today’s trafficking is abhorrent & we should strive to learn about them & prevent them.

[@jshyoungblood]

Racism and slavery are two different things. Moreover, what does this have to do with anything? It's like telling a German Jewish person about other genocides.

[@janelfields2284]

It’s been my experience that when someone tries to move discussion away from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade they do it divert attention away from Systemic Racism so they’ll bring up examples like the Trans Saharan Slave Trade that went on from the 7th-20th Century. It was also Anti-Black chattel slavery. All forms of slavery, especially modern day Global Human Trafficking, is abhorrent & we should strive to learn about it, prevent it & stop it from reoccurring in the future.

[@eugenemorrow2918]

I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the perpetually aggrieved.

[@ninadaly7639]

WRONG. They change the subject because they are so sick of hearing about it from people who have no idea what they’re talking about!! It’s a WASTE OF TIME!

[@louisaaugustine9839]

Love Michael, I will be getting the book and the audio version

[@sharongillesp]

American history is dirty and brutal and cruel . . . But it’s also beautiful because of those who had to live and struggle under that brutality, yet SOMEHOW - managed to create beauty. They were the ones who imagined the TRUE possibilities of the Constitution and the humanity of Christianity - of hope and determination. Black Americans are the true DREAMERS. . . They are the ones who’ve forged any greatness in America by understanding the ultimate truth . . . HUMANITY FOR ALL. . . . as it moves and evolves across the globe.

[@ninadaly7639]

You are delusional. You are a “dreamer” alright. Become a doer and your life will be better!

[@careytitan9097]

Juan Garrado was a black Portuguese Conquistador who invaded Cuba. It was also the Portuguese who started the Atlantic slave trade and brought the first African slaves to the Americas in the 1600s. When the Portuguese sailors first established trading links with coastal west Africa, they found an existing African slave system that could be turned to their advantage, so started shipping African slaves. On August 20, 1619, a significant event unfolded in the British colony of Virginia. “20 and odd” Angolans, who had been kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in Virginia and were subsequently purchased by English colonists. So Mr. Harriot's statement that '' The English brought slaves to America'' is wrong, they purchased them from the Portuguese. It was the Portuguese who started the Atlantic slave trade in 1444, England joined it in the 1600s and later fought to end it too. The white slave trade trade was much older than the African slave trade. So slavery was ended for both whites and blacks.

[@BethLuv]

Carey you are really upset. Michael spoke correctly that Europeans brought the first African slaves to the US. That's nothing to be upset about.

[@careytitan9097]

@@BethLuv I am not upset, Arabs had been buying African slaves from African slave traders for 2000 years before European Portuguese got in on the act, that is a fact but they only ever chat about European slave traders to fit their biased narrative.

[@buckboyd2564]

What does AF stand for?

[@theresagosha201]

They’re always coming up with some new stuff way before they’re finished with the present stuff 🙄🤨

[@KOKAYI69]

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[@bbbartolo]

Still miss his regular column at The Root, the wit, the neologisms ("wipipo,"), running gags (mayonnaise, potato salad, seasoning, etc) You gotta respond to current events with withering scorn, and he was the best at that.

[@terbospeed]

Somehow the literal horde of people who follow this relatively unknown author around and leave senseless comments on his videos inadvertently prove that he must have something important to say. I can't find any other reason for the vitrol.

[@loveoverhate1357]

🖤🙏🏿

[@colejohnson3705]

LMAO

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

But whiteness still rules. How do you account for that?

[@michelej9496]

Abolitionists, freedom fighters, warriors and unsung heroes fought like hell for a better way of life for their people. Not many presently have the spirit of our forebears to protect the gains that their blood, sweat and tears made. Therefore, power is in the hand of the enemy.

[@BethLuv]

White supremacy is literally murder.

[@annsullivan3178]

What are you talking about? I was educated in the same system..I learned that African tribes captured and sold other African tribes and sold them to Europeans..the first slaves from Africa didn't get here til 1619..the puritans got here in the early 1600s..most of those were indentured servants who were white..I was taught the rebel south refused to free the slaves and slavery was abolished up north by 1800..the Civil War was bloody and violent and huge numbers of white men died ending slavery in the US..this practice continues in Africa though

[@louisaaugustine9839]

You are so missing the point! The US version of slavery was chattel slavery, which meant your children and your grandchildren were slaves. You were treated as property because of your skin colour. If you are going to comment please know what you are talking about

[@sharongillesp]

@@louisaaugustine9839 Yes! Exactly! Slavery has been practiced all through history . . . but NOTHING as DEPRAVED & BARBARIC as American chattel slavery. Separating parents from their children? Selling new born babies to the highest bidder? To do who knows what with/to the child? Sex slave? To “rent out?” And you don’t have to wonder where such behavior originally came from . . . EUROPE!

[@brianpeppers7455]

Chattel slavery has been going on for thousands of years, everywhere on earth. You are delusional to think the US system was the first or the worst. @@louisaaugustine9839

[@nikkilee4789]

@@louisaaugustine9839 I believe white people who make these comments are trying to make themselves feel better and/or shift the blame. When they look at history and its truth, they realize that they are the ones who spat at, murdered, raped, killed, slaughtered, lynched, hung, demonized other ethnic groups of people to make themselves the "supreme" race... when in reality when they see their reflection all they can see are a bunch of lying, depraved, bereft, murdering, thieving people.

[@chuckemeade]

Indentured servants were not slaves, and 1619 is the early 1600's. U.S slavery continued until 1864 which made the U.S the second to last western nation to abolish the practice the last was Portugal in 1888. Africa is not a country which nation/nations still pratice slavery?