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We start with a, I mean, slavery. That's a really big one, and, um, and that's kind of where it begins. I think it's an appropriate place to begin because this is, we're told, right, the original sin of, uh, America's kind of original sin. Nicole Hannah Jones would tell us this, the whole reason America was formed. Right. Exactly. And, and it, if you go, it, it touches everything. You look at the, to your point, I mean, you look at the ICE agitators in the street. Um, it doesn't take that long. It's only a few degrees of separation to go from there to get from there to their narrative about slavery. I mean, this is what they think gives them the moral right, the moral justification to just do whatever they want, to go protest in the churches if they want to, because America was built on slavery and it has no right to exist. And, uh, every white American carries somehow that legacy, that guilt in their blood for slavery. And so you can treat them however you want.
And, uh, and then when you, when you look into it, you realize that, well, that's, that's totally absurd. Starting with the fact that, and this is how we begin the series, where we begin this episode, is, um, you know, let's look at this on a global scale before we get to the really particular subject of slavery in America. What about the global? What did slavery look like on a global scale? And it turns out that, you know, of course, slavery was a, a global institution across the entire world for many thousands of years. It's actually kind of fascinating that even these civilizations that never came in contact with each other and disagreed about most things, came to the very different conclusions about most things, still came to the same conclusion, basically, that it's okay to own people. And that's whether you're in Asia or Europe or you go to the, the, you know, the new world, you go to the Americas. Uh, again, these are civilizations that were, uh, thousands of miles apart, separated by thousands of years. And yet they all had slavery. You know, this is, this is a, so if, if the, if the guilt of slavery could be passed down in the blood to modern people, then we all carry it, you know, without exception.
It was everywhere. And the slave trade that resulted in some number of slaves coming to the United States of America funneled slaves all over the Americas in a way that the detractors of the United States seem to conveniently forget. Here's another clip from episode one. It's 51. Historians and political pundits spend a lot of time talking about the transatlantic slave trade, the 350-year period in which an estimated 12.5 million slaves were brought to the Americas. But what we don't learn in school is where those slaves actually went. Just under half of them, an estimated 5.4 million, went only to Brazil, and many more went to the Caribbean. 1.2 million went to Jamaica. More than 900,000 to St. Dominique and 889,000 to Cuba. The grand total of slaves brought to the future United States was about half the number brought only to Cuba. 472,372, or 3% of the total. The ones who came to the 13 colonies were the lucky ones. In the context of global slavery, getting put on a ship to New Orleans was really a best-case scenario.
I mean, that's incredible. And it dovetails perfectly with a point you guys make in the series, which is as follows. I'm quoting here. In the 1860 census, at the very height of slavery, there were 393,975 slave owners in the US. Out of a total population of over 31 million. That translates to about 1.2% of the population. The vast majority of American whites never owned any slaves, which is not at all the narrative we are fed in third and fourth grade and every grade thereafter, all the way to our 50s.
Yeah. And not only did, you know, of course, the vast majority of Americans never owned slaves, but also America only had slavery as an institution for 90 years of its existence as a country. You know, for, for 90 years of the existence of the United States of America, uh, about 90 years, slavery existed. And, um, and you, you look at other, other countries across the world that had slavery as a legal institution for thousands of years. I mean, slavery was a legal institution in some places in Africa until the mid-20th century. I think, I think it was finally abolished in like 1980 in the, in the last, uh, African country. So, and the point of all this, obviously, because the response from the left will be, and always is, when I talk about this, that, yeah, well, two wrongs don't make a right. That, that doesn't mean that it's okay that America had slavery. Obviously, that's not the point. The point isn't that, uh, that it was okay for Americans to have slaves. The point is that it's historically incoherent to pretend that America has some kind of special guilt for slavery. Because when it comes down to it, guilt is shared by every country. But America's slavery relation with slavery was, if judged against other countries at the time and other regions of the world, much better and lasted, uh, for a much shorter period of time.
So this is not, um, of course, the only thing they mislead our children on. No matter what school we're sending them to, there's always a little bit of ideology that creeps in and infects the lesson plans. And history is like ripe for the exploitation. And I mean, like virtually all of the history teachers do it. Um, this actually, I don't know that this is a history class where this, this came out of, but there was just in the news. Um, hold on a second. Where was it? My, my team will, Oh, it's Iowa. It's in Iowa, of all places, where there was an audio tape that broke, Matt, from a kid. A kid obviously who's probably not supposed to have his or her phone in the classroom, sneaked it out and sneaked it on to record this ideological teacher in Iowa. Hello. On the subject of Renee Good, this ICE agitator who wound up on the wrong side of an agent's gun after she tried to run him over. Here it is. SP 47. But what you need to understand is that she was told to leave the area and so she was turning her vehicle away. She weighed two other vehicles and they were leaving. And she was turning away and the officer stepped in front of her vehicle, raised his gun and fired a shot at point blank range into her vehicle. And then as she drove away, he turned and fired two more shots at point blank range and shot her in the head. AND THAT COULD HAVE BEEN YOU.
And keep in mind, she had broken no law. Oh, no. She was simply following orders to leave a scene. Anybody here, the Manson Police Department can shoot you. Are you okay with that? Okay. Now, you and I both know the number of factual errors that are in that little dissertation are too many to count right now. But the, the point is the crazy ass indoctrination. It's, it's one thing to know it's happening and it's quite another to hear the anger, the guilt she tries to slap on them, the, the terror. Let me just give you one point. In the law, I learned this point as a young law student who was on the moot court team and I had done this in a moot court tryout and I learned first, first day of law school as I tried out for moot court. You are not allowed to make the jury feel for fear for its safety in your closing argument as a prosecutor. You can't say this guy's a rapist or a murderer and if you don't find him guilty, he's going to come out and rape or murder you or someone you love. That's not okay because you really do need to be fair to the defendant and need to make sure the jury is in a fair position to make a, a good decision. That's the last thing she wants of her students, that they remain in a fair and objective position to make a good decision. She just wants them swallowing her propaganda, Matt.
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