Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't I seen denunciation of the President's Day celebration?" responded a Black student, noting that the nation's founders' status as slave owners is rarely brought up when they are lauded for their historical contributions...
...CUNY professor meanwhile continued to allege that Jews were heavily involved in the slave trade even as he denied that Egyptians had used Jewish slave labor to build the ancient pyramids of Giza--a period of bondage that Jews commemorate with the holiday of Passover...
...without a basis in evidence, in carefully searched and articulated data and experience. So we must consider Jeffries' so-called theory of human groups (classified as Ice People and Sun People) as harebrain, and we must consider as equally harebrain his claim that major responsibility for the Atlantic Slave Trade can be laid at the feet of Jews...
Jeffries' charge of Jewish responsibility for the Atlantic Slave Trade is just utter ignorance. While some Jews were into slaving, the Atlantic Slave Trade was overwhelmingly a vile act by Christendom, not by Judaism. And, alas, Jeffries, if he took a moment to read rather than emote, might have added that another major component of the structure of slaving involved African societies themselves, or more precisely not the victimized agrarian African masses but the cynical ritual leadership and chiefly leadership sectors of African societies who manned the scaffolding of slaving--without guns at their backs but with myriad mercantile capitalist...
Jews, like the rest of us mortal humans, have done injury in this world, but the Atlantic Slave Trade was not their doing--it was Christendom's season in Hell...