Thanks to brilliant.org/TheCynicalHistorian/ for sponsoring this video. Click the link to get 20% off an annual premium subscription Click "read more" for further info, corrections, and bibliography Thanks for watching! Please consider supporting the channel by buying merch: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian Or by donating to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian *[reserved for errata]* 9:10 - Muslims participated in a slave trade that included slavs by this time, but I was referring to their territorial extent. Saqaliba came from Byzantine and Viking slavers before the 11th century. Here’s an article on it: www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/what-does-the-slave-trade-in-the-saqaliba-tell-us-about-early-islamic-slavery/EDDD35D8FD593AB8D576D11550CF62C6 (thx drogenschlechtmhkay) 14:10 - black emperors are currently hotly debated, and I made it sound settled. In fact, it appears that more scholars agree that the Severans were more brown than black. But you may decide for yourself with this preserved painting of the family: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_family_of_Septimius_Severus__-Altes_Museum-__Berlin_-_Germany_2017.jpg Here are some related videos: 10 Common slavery myths: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R1FO9MqWugY.html comments response elaboration: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rzs62Y0qJ0o.html Project Africa video on Guns Germs and Steel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2OQmvRUdr3U.html *Bibliography* Ira Berlin, _Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves_ (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003). amzn.to/2tYB3ef David Davis, _Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World_ (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006). amzn.to/2KRoJpM _A Companion to Ancient History,_ 2 vols., edited by Andrew Erskine (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2009). amzn.to/3zrju5p Natalie Davis, _Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision_ (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002). amzn.to/2udiKkU Stanley Harrold, _Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War_ (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010). amzn.to/2xbEKSp
I would get it if a white person were to be making these claims as some way to protect their own ego. But why the fuck is a black woman defending this stuff and evidently taking this money from PragerU? It´s like if the dinosaurs voted in favour of the Chixculub asteroid.
Owens is capitalizing on general lack of competition for a right wing correspondent on slavery and racism. There are plenty of right wing Ashkenazi Jews, but how many had a grandfather telling stories of brave Nazi soldiers wbo rescued him from an AntiFa attic in Ukraine? They gave him a job and kept him safe from the reds. Fifty year later, U.S. welcomed me as a Soviet refugee, and made me a citizen after asking if I was ever a communist. I decided not to mention that I had it worse at the hands of fascist sympathizers. Then Candace and i can comment how wearing a mask is true slavery and holocaust from which only the GOP can save us. All part of my Truth in History Studies.
@@thebeast8429 but there had never been a system of slavery quite like the one used in America. Plus that argument is really a copout argument. It's like a thief that stole something from you saying that "people steal things" and "you're not the only one to have things stolen from them". Slavery happened over a century ago but many of the institutions that benefitted from it still exist and we still have issues stemming from the Jim Crow era of segregation. Some communities are still segregated along the same lines that existed 60 years ago. Slavery and Jim Crow is at the origin of it all.
@@thebeast8429there are some that do blame all white people but there are many that don't. Black people have also rewarded and praised white people for being empathetic to their cause. I also think that it's not really possible to know what most black people think. The media will typically show the most extreme cases. Same goes for white people. but we can gauge society by the things that are allowed to pass.
@@incubus_the_man hell they had a black emperor sure there were racists but Roman slavery was indeed based off of position, also slavery still is bad regardless
The “we didn’t invent slavery” is such a weird argument. The Nazis didn’t invent warfare or genocide but yet are the universal reference for both? I can’t go to a judge and use “I didn’t invent robbery” as an argument…
It is strange to hear such nonsense considering slaves were traded. You need a market for slavery to be a thing and Europeans/Americans were eager customers. Everyone involved was equally to blame.
I thought of this comment today watching Donald Trump's paltry attempt to elaborate on the pre election audio leak when asked about his " Pussy grabbing " penchant. He literally said we have had stars for millions of years and sometimes its fortunate and unfortunate ( that they grab pussy ) I kid you not. White Supremacy is narcissism played as a group sport
You got to understand that the Nazis can be separated from Germans the problem is that not many people can seperate slave owner from white person which causes a hateful divide that I've seen personally
@@kingdicehoi4lubu746 Eh, that's painting with a broad brush. Most people don't think all white people owned slaves. That's more of a far right strawman. In fact, they often believe it themselves - when people talk about reparations for slavery, where all previous slave owners should pay out to families of descendants on slaves, the Right begins screeching! But in reality, it wouldn't affect most white people - so as a white person, I don't mind reparations :) My family never owned slaves, so it wouldn't hurt me in any way.
"Africans did slavery too" okay, but in order to make money from those slaves, someone would need to BUY them. It was wrong to sell people AND wrong to buy people. "They did it too" doesn't absolve you of guilt.
Exactly. Also, people like Candacd will condemn black people for doing slavery too, but they'll sing the praises or white abolitionists and claim that "white people" ended slavery even though there were also a lot of black people who fought to end slavery, both in America and Africa. And they also seem to forget that those "white people" who apparently ended slavery, did so against the wishes of other white people. They weren't arguing with aliens. They were arguing with other white people who wanted to keep slavery.
There's also the fact that "Africans did slavery" seems to gloss over that Africa is a continent & not a country like America, Rome or what we now consider to be south Korean & there were entire countries, tribes & other civilizations within Africa that were against slavery from the get go.
@@siphomnisi3842 wasn’t America supposed to be designing a more perfect union? Why shouldn’t we want to be better than countries that use slavery? Why are we exceptional in every other way, but because others had slaves, we were justified too?
@@krbrown948 Please explain to me how Prager U is educational and promotes learning about history and science? And doesn't reinforce people's beliefs and views?
@@joegallegos9109 well, it's not really an echo chamber if there are people with various views present. Why would a liberal come to a PragerU vid if they weren't trying to understand other people's views and thoughts. Problem is, this shit isn't just someone's opinion, this is just a vid trying to make white people feel like American slavery wasn't really that bad, which is some crazy shit but not really surprising nowing Prager.
@@liveking12 Exactly, it doesn't show a different perspective, or history that isn't discussed, just there to make certain people feel good about themselves and their beliefs
More people need to know how widespread the lying is and how to tell. I'm glad there are educated folks out there fighting against PragerU and similar liars.
How sadly true. Historians are now reactionaries... in the sense that they need to stop what they are doing and react to appallingly bad takes instead of charting new history. Damn the internet some days.
One of my favorite counters to people like Candass is asking what the equivalent of segregation/lynchings/discrimination have to do with other civilizations of the past or how African slave traders caused the U.S. to segregate for so long. Being shocked that Africans tribes had conflicts is like being shocked the French and British fought/conquered each other just because they were both "white."
You're exactly right. They bring up other countries and civilizations only to deflect attention from our own ugly racist history. It's all a smokescreen. ...."Nothing to see here, folks!"
exactly - she ignores all that other stuff on purpose - i do not even think she believes the stuff she saying - i bet most conservatives leaders do not believe the stuff they are saying
It’s so sad to see people trying to justify slavery. Those who try and say “sLaVrEY ISnt bAD!” are probably the most ignorant people you could meet and worst considering they are racist most of the time they try to justify it.
Bud black conservatives are still black. Thinking that their pigment is somehow altered when they aren't liberals is an incredibly racist thing to say.
On the Slavic parts of the video. "Slavs ... all white by the way" I'd like to point to the 1500 year history of Slavs not being considered "white" at least in the racial connotations of the word. My most favourite quote is that the Slavs are "an intellectually inferior race of obscure Asiatic origin". (Primary Chronicle, Cross and Showbowitz-Wetzor, p. 36. ). The word slave coming from the word Slav was debated as several other plausible origins were proposed but by now the historical consensus has pretty much come to the conclusion that the word slave most definetly came from the word Slav as medieval sources about Slavs are sometimes even unclear whether they mean slaves or Slavs as for a while they just used the same word Sclaveni (meaning Slavs), and its many variations, to mean both Slavs and slaves (Slavery After Rome 500-1100, Alice Rio). The word Slav (and its many variations in early medieval sources) either comes from the Slavs themselves or, if you believe Curta and some other Toronto School proponents, it was an ethnos given to them by the Greeks i.e. the Byzantines. The word slave which is derived from the word Slav, therefore, either came to France from the Greeks or from the Slavs that were enslaved and brought to France and called themselves Slavs. It could also be a combination of the two, hard to say. Than from France the word came to England due to the Normans. Also, Muslims, by far, were the largest owners of Slavic slaves as they preferred them for multiplicities of reasons. The numbers of Slavic slaves owned by Muslims could easily have been in the millions as attested to by the sheer amount of dirhams found all across Europe which we know, from multiple sources (e.g. Ibin Fadlan Voyage), were mostly used by the Arabs to pay for Slavic slaves (Dirhams for Slaves, Marek Jankowiak). However, Muslims, outside of very few occasions, never enslaved Slavs themselves (in the medieval period). They bought them from other peoples who did the enslaving, peoples like the Varangians (Norse/Vikings), various Western Europeans, various nomads like Khazars, and Slavs themselves most notably Bohemians. All this was an extreme oversimplification of a much larger topic which I plan to do a video on early next year so if you're interested (wink wink nudge nudge, shameless plug) subscribe to my channel :)
That's the rub when you talk about "white" people as a monolithic block isn't it? It perpetuates a melanin based division so simplistic and stupid even colonial and antebellum Americans rejected it. But now it is almost universally accepted.
Enslaving Bohemians... Interesting point. I never heard about it. I am really curious. Its probably missing not very known piece of our history. Can you kindly share some source? (Eng, Cz, Sk) I want know more about this topic. Thank you.
I think what's also funny about the slav comment is a few civil rights groups I've seen consider Slavs a people of color because of the whole history with slavery as you pointed out.
@@annexcendent8511 One of the papers I stated in the comment Dirhams for slaves. Investigating the Slavic slave trade in the tenth century , by Marek Jankowiak, is a good source for that. For the main primary source see Ibrahim b. Ya‘qub's work who talked about the importance of Prague as a slave market. For Bavarians buying slaves from Bohemia see Hammer, Carl I. A Large-scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages : Slaves and Their Families in Early-medieval Bavaria For a Czech paper on the Bohemian slave trade see OTROKÁŘSTVÍ V NEJSTARŠÍ ČESKÉ HAGIOGRAFII A HISTORIOGRAFII Bc. Lucie Uhrová
@@yourmom9951 I'd say that it was more a collective of people that ended slavery in America then just white people, I mean they legit had all types fighting in the civil war for it, so saying that white people ended slavery is not really accurate at all. They were involved in ending it yea, but like...there was also a ton of them trying to keep it around.
I wish people like Candace would understand that while yes we’re aware slavery “didn’t start with black people”, by no means does it make our history or our struggles any less important. I grow tired of people undermining the black American struggle. They use someone like Candace to feel less guilty because “a black person said it”.
I agree with people thinking it’s ok because a Black person said it I find that a little weird how there’s a different reaction based on color. But we also have to admit and learn about the fact that 10x more white people were enslaved by Black ppl in the North African slave trade the rest of the world is learning the opposite to the west and something that we were never taught in school or never see in the media is how Black people have been enslaved for 2000 years and still are enslaved by Arabs today! The slavery of Black ppl in Arab countries will never end if we ignore it and go on acting like only we in the west know what racism feels like. Anti Blackness is world wide.
@@OriginalBeauty-gp1oj The sole reason PragerU made this video is to hide the fact that the United States of America was founded on white supremacy. Starting with the genocide of indigenous brown people and immediately followed by the dehumanization of black people.
@@donyoung7874 The Alt-Right is Intense, i hope were all updated on that, using available Info-Sources to their fullest? Info-Sources like videos like 'Marjorie Taylor Greene Has DEEPLY Disturbing Views' by Telltale Fireside? PragerU was covered by so many, i dont think i have to say anything about that, but lemme say that Some More News is a good RU-vidr to be informed about all kindso f Issues, local or global. That Guy keeps you updated on Everything from Crops to LGBT.
As a Mexican, I think they forgot about slavery in the Americas prior to the Spanish conquest, in fact it's one of the reasons Cortés had it easier, because the enemies of the Aztecs allied with him to fend them off and defeat them, then Cortés turned on his erstwhile indigenous allies and practiced genocide with them
@Kosch GM Pinpoint it please, because all I hear her say is that it was only 9th century Muslims and later Ottoman Turks, who enslaved Slavic people. She doesn't mention Norse, the Italian merchants or other Slavic tribes, who also supplied the Middle East with Slavic slaves
@Kosch GM For once you are right. He should be blamed for it. He should not even be, such an unholy mixture should have never been born. I’ll have to rid my home of such imperfections.
@@martinp3166 There are so many omissions, but also some by Cynic here - 9th century Muslims did have access to Slavs through the Norse who enslaved them and sold them in places as far away as Persia, and later on North Africa. The Abbasids also used Slav mercenaries in this period, so saying they did not have access to them is nonsense.
My father was a child of southern Italian immigrants. He was born in 1930. As a young man, he was denied jobs because he wasn’t white. Some historians have estimated that as much as a third of the Roman Empire consisted of slaves. As an American of Italian descent, there are certain to be Roman slaves among my ancestors. Should I then compare myself to those people in the U.S. who are descendants of African slaves? Should I compare my middle class circumstances to those of economically distressed descendants of African slaves in the U.S. today and claim that everybody has an equal opportunity to succeed? The answer is “no”. African Americans have historically been treated differently because of the color of their skin. They continue to be treated differently today because of the color of their skin although there has been considerable improvement. Despite my slave ancestors and the discrimination my father experienced, nobody treats me as anything other than white. I don’t know why some people have a hard time seeing the truth of this issue.
dude when i started reading this comment i thought it was gonna go in a way different direction. thank you for understanding the bare minimum of racism
@@endersdragon34 All the republican's are. Else they wouldn't be republicans and it wouldn't take them till the same shit happens to them to suddenly have issues with it being done.
Other things Aristotle believed were true: - Men have more teeth than women. - Heavy objects fall faster than light objects. - Men's blood is hotter than women's blood. - The earth is the center of the universe. - The earth and everything in it existed for all eternity and will exist for all eternity. - Some animals spontaneously come into being from mud and earth; they don't reproduce. - There are a total of seven heavenly bodies, which are perfect and never change. - The heart is the organ of reason and intellect. - The function of the brain is to cool the blood.
Poor Rome, building an entire empire on the backs of horrifyingly brutalized slaves and not even being acknowledged for the effort all that mass-enslavement of defeated cities and tribes took... ;(
Yeah it's typical how when they talk about the history of slavery but leave out that difference European groups enlsaved their enemies like the Vikings and Romans. Here they only mention it when it's from outside forces like the Mongols or Turks
Wait. Let me get this right. The link for citations on “a brief history of slavery” goes to “what unites america.” I think that says everything you need to know about PragerU.
@Jordan Spencer...Clearly, you know nothing of history and are just as daft as Candice or maybe a good old fashion grifter...AGAIN, like she is if you don't know she just served up a big ol pile of horse manure in that video.
@@colterwall9481 Glad you can smell and see bs but unfortunately PissU is trying to reframe historical things in a conservative lens like that fascism is somehow left wing or that the real danger is from the left and not the neo nazi right wing ultra crazies.
“Egypt and Persia had slaves, Europe stopped it” All the Spartan helots that were constantly maimed and killed, sometimes for the lolz: are we a joke to you?
Although compared to slaves in say Athens Helots had comparatively more rights are they were tied to the land and could have families. Most other slaves didn't have that privilege.
@@666DarkTommy Athenian slaves can buy their freedom, Spartan helots don't. Anyone born from a freed slave is free, anyone born from a Spartan helot don't...
@@666DarkTommy Dude, being a Helot was way, way worse than being a slave in Athens. They lived in constant of fear of Spartan death squads which would round up and torture anyone who breathed resistance. They would even randomly massacre innocent Helots to keep the population in a state of perpetual fear. Being allowed to have a family doesn't mean much if that family can be tortured and killed at any point for no reason.
Conservatives: "White people ended slavery." Also Conservatives: *proceeds to spout the Lost Cause Myth every time the virtues of abolishment are brought up.
And they get away with it because their base gobble up everything their televangelist pastor and Trump says. What more imformed people tell them doesn't count, of course, because they don't wear a stupid red MAGA hat like themselves.
I like how it's called "A short history of Slavery" but she doesn't even mention the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which was a very brutal, and probably the most well-known portion of that history.
@drakke125Channel Yes, she mentioned it in passing and she stresses how the cultures' slavery was far more worse which she tries to minimize the effects of the American system.
It was an automatic fail for both my high-school and college courses. Not citing sources MLA style was the end all to be all, right next to plagiarism, rightfully so.
This reminds me of one of Stephen Colbert's comments on The Colbert Report where he was "tallying up" white vs black accomplishments and went "Let's give white people 1 point for winning the war to end slavery, and another point for losing the war to keep slavery. Hmm, funny how there were no points for black people in that one." Except he said it as a joke.
@@samr6408 the union was ending slavery. The confederates were fighting for states rights and defending from the war of northern aggression. (Let's ignore what was the main state right they were fighting to defend, and let's ignore the change of narrative between these two sentences.)
@@dannyhuskerjay Never really heard fellow Slavs arguing about that.... I as a Slav actually couldnt care less from where the term Slav comes from, But thats just me
I dont get it. Even if "white people didnt invent slavery" and we concede to every other point on the grounds of race, it still wouldnt make slavery in the US less brutal or more moral. It especially doesn't excuse the practice of slavery in any other point in time. It's indefensible regardless of how you present it.
Prager U knows they don't need Sources. They know their audience don't care..and won't look. They know their audience is only looking for things that confirm their biases.
Funny how Candice comments on "Race Hustlers" yet the only reason she's even relevant with conservatives is literally because of her race and nothing else.
There are plenty of conservatives who are people of color that few Conservatives think of on a daily basis like Owens. Have you ever heard of Michelle Steel? Probably not. She's if anything more of an outlier than Owens cuz she's an Asian American GOP representative from California, the state you'd least expect a person of color to be a Republican. And yet despite that, she's virtually irrelevant to Conservatives. The primary reason Candace Owens is popular among Conservatives is cuz she's the Conservative version of AOC: an outspoken black woman with a bossy attitude. Not to mention she's part of the Daily Wire, a major conservative media outlet that gets millions of views daily, meaning people hear from her daily and spread the word on who she is. Yes, her being a black conservative plays it's part, but just remember it takes more than that to be on conservatives' radar.
I remember seeing a sculpture that was put at the bottom of a reef, depicting men and women in chains, and the title was "for those who chose death over bondage". I also have a friend who visited one of the slave holding prisons in Ghana and they said it was one of the most heartbreaking things they've ever seen. Especially how matter of fact the tour guide was about everything.
It's Eastern Rome, the pagan steppe nomads, and the Italian city states that enslaved and traded Slavs in the black sea for much of the time period following the 900s she's implying. Muslims didn't dominate the trade until 1. The conversion of the Golden Horde (whose trade was still facilitated by Italian traders) and 2. the expansion of Ottoman authority into the Pontic-Caspian steppe. A more relevant example of a Muslim slave trade (what she was really digging for there) would much more easily be found in the Caucasus or Africa. I guess her audience thinks Caucasian just means white person so it wouldn't work.
People constantly ship white and Caucasian though, like the choose ethnicity: white/Caucasian. That and Caucasian isn’t even an option for ethnicities selection sometimes and people will use white to encompass them all.
Owens also conveniently leaves out how it was European demand for slave labor that exacerbated slave raids in Africa. Europeans provided more incentives for African slavers which made slavery even more profitable for them.
There was already a slave trade within Africa since the middle ages. A lot of the slave traffic was redirected to the Atlantic once European demand increased.
OMG! I'm so glad you gave the actual definition of white, people look at me crazy when I say the white identity has little to with skin color because other Europeans were left out of that identity entirely, like Irish and southern Italians. It's a very new concept put into place to separate the have from the have nots. I'm glad you mentioned it.
I've said the same thing, some of my ancestors were in fact Irish and came to America during that time only to face discrimination that so many racists think was only reserved for "non-whites"
@@ToxicAudrithe Irish an Italians got to use the whites only water fountain an restroom an got the right to vote without being threatened with death...yeah I remember when Irish an Italians went thru that
@@nutboy93 Oh I’m sorry you don’t think you’re being just a little ridiculous? As though it was the Americans who really went out of their way to make slavery cruel? Stop.
It is telling that the focus is "slavery isn't about race" (true in a vacuum) and yet the first two points are "white people did not invent slaves" and "white people freed slaves." In the American context, it is sad that we view racism as the legacy of slavery and not slavery as the legacy of racism.
Yeah. The reason the US kept up the enslavement of blacks for so long was basically racism. They hated black people and didn't want them to be members of society of equal standing. While the 'North' faction may have generally been against slavery, most of them weren't extremely passionate about the issue nor cared enough to actually effect any change. Even then, most of them didn't want blacks to have equal status or participate in their society. I've noticed that most 'incorrect' beliefs people hold are usually held because they want to believe those things are true, rather than them acting in bad faith with malicious or manipulative reasons. They don't want to believe certain groups of people they identify with or like were responsible for terrible things. Or, alternatively, they don't want to believe certain groups of people they don't like were actually responsible for good things. Because to do so means that beliefs they hold are actually wrong. Just like any other thing even tangentially related to politics, often times people do not have a proper understanding of the thing and instead just interpret it to fit with their beliefs and/or worldview. You hate white people? Then whites are especially evil and the grandmasters of slavery (I have seen people say things like this before IRL and online). You want to take pride in your southern heritage? Then you choose to believe the people who incorrectly say the civil war was about states rights (these are the people who aren't racist but still wave the Confederate flag) instead of the correct/real reasons it happened, so that you can continue believing 'your' group in the past weren't 'evil'. You are extremely, probably overly, proud of being 'black', but there aren't many/any widely know historically significant things ancient African civilizations have done that are known in the western sphere? Then you start believing wackos when they start claiming that the Samurai were actually all black because it makes you feel good (these people are hilarious but also sad). The thing about slavery in general and American slavery is that it is a complex issue that has a lot of history and nuance to it. And there are groups all over the political spectrum that hold an oversimplified and/or incorrect understanding of the issue because it confirms their beliefs and view of how the world is and was.
@@liarwithagun it’s more accurate to say that for there constitution to make sense and their ideas if freedom to not be hypocritical, they had to teach that these people weren’t equal as human, and that’s why the race was considered no more than animals
I love how Candace completely ignores the Haitian Revolution (completed in 1804), which preceded both the American Civil War and the subsequent US abolition of slavery in 1865, and the British Empire's abolition of slavery in the 1830s.
Also, the French revolutionary (Jacobin) government abolished slavery -- in the 1790s -- in response to the first phase of the Haitian Revolution of the demands of the revolutionary alliance of enslaved and free black Haitians. Unfortunately, Napoleon reestablished it.
Sorry to keep commenting, but Candace's effective erasure of the immense sacrifices of black Union soldiers -- who had to fight like hell to be allowed to serve, then serve in segregated units for lower pay than white soldiers and deal with racist bullshit from their white comrades in arms -- is absolutely disgusting and despicable. She should really be ashamed of herself.
In 1707 General Maitland of Britain at the time attempted to intervene in Haiti although great disease helped with terrible losses for Britain relented from taking Haiti on behalf of the Ancient French regime. Haiti also delivered the great Napoleonic France its first defeat after Batay Vertye.
@@SithStudy Egypt is literally in Africa so no, it’s not. If she said black people you might have a point and that’s definitely what she meant but it’s not what she said.
@@marcon6806 nope. She is trying to minimize the severity of the atrocities that were committed during the Transatlantic Slave Trade by pretending it was not unique (which is was) and then she talks about all the „bad brown people who enslaved and cannablized each other“ by then saying it was actually white people who were the first to abolish slavery. She is a bigot and a talking mouth for white supremacyY
@@bajabl Europeans didn't start slavery . . . Do you know nothing of the British crusade to end slavery around the world? Europe was one of the first continents to widely get rid of slavery, not the first to try to abolish it at all.
@@marcon6806 I want you to listen to yourself. Why would anyone give recognition to the oppressor for stopping the oppression they practiced? Also yes advocacy did help put an end to slavery in Europe, but the practice mainly ended due to it just not being a financially viable practice anymore, due to constant slave revolts in the Caribbean’s and especially since we were in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.
Prager U's own web page says they are "Changing minds through the creative use of digital media" it says NOTHING of making any attempts at truth or accuracy. Given this video of thiers, I'd say they are VERY creative...they certainly created a lot of thier own facts.
Prageru: "my source is i made it the fuck up" Honestly i love asking these guys for sources only to either be ignored, given a link to infowars, or be given an article that directly disagrees with them.
A minor correction: Septimius Severus (the Roman Emperor you mentioned) was not black. He was of Carthaginian (thus Phoenician/Canaanite/Semitic) origins. Not white, but not black either. I'll post the source later, I'm on my phone atm
What she really wants to say is white Christians ended slavery. But she ignores the other group of equal a god-fearing Bible believing Christians who are convinced that God had endorsed slavery.
Maybe people need to understand that the Bible is also a product of it's time, among many other things, and not cherry pick currently non applicable laws that only had specific uses even when they were first put to paper!?
Thank you for calling Aristotle ignorant. Not because I think he wasn’t a great mind but it’s because I believe it’s okay to call people out regardless of their education, philosophy, etc.
Crazy how that works. The truth is, conservatives want to preserve a past that didn’t exist so they have to bend the facts and truth to their narratives.
This is a common misconception born from mistranslations. It is condemned as a practice in Exodus 21:16 “Now one who kidnaps someone, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall certainly be put to death." Slavers are also condemned wholesale in 1st Timothy 1:10, "for the sexually immoral, homosexuals, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching". All places in the Bible where it "justifies" slavery are cases of purposeful mistranslation for the purposes of advancing the evil practice (which sadly some modern translations have chosen not to update their wording to account for). In those cases, the translation should be the word servant. In the Old Testament, these laws are dealing with contracts, debts, , betrothals, the integrating of foreigners into the people, and things of that sort. As for passages like Philemon which people use to say the Bible is pro-slavery this is as stated the word servant, based on context. To suggest that Philemon enslaved his own biological brother (something even the Romans wouldn't do) is as offensive as it is stupid. The fact this idea has become mainstream shows how lax the church has gotten in teaching doctrine. If you wish to learn more on this topic I recommend copying the following into your search engine of choice: "A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument George Bourne". It is the first thing that will pop up for you. Hope this proves of use to you. May God's grace, mercy, and wisdom be upon you and those that you love!
@@tokyosoldier9116 The Bible predates the Quran, and of course a lot of the older Abrahamic scriptures heavily influenced the third of the Abrahamic religions, (Islam)
Her parents and grandparents must be proud of her, not the least because of her employment by the people who really wish there would still be slavery in the states.
"If we didn't invent it, we can't be held responsible for it." That seems to be the general drive of their narrative. That, and "everyone else was doing it too," which is just primary school level infallible arguing. What is Candace's stance on corporal punishment in schools? Should teachers be allowed to beat another parent's child for behavior that singular teacher deems inappropriate or undesirable? If she said yes, could we then blame her for "inventing" the leather strap and yard sticks to beat children with? Or would she argue that the practice was inhumane and damaging to an entire generation of young people, and we're a better society for having gotten rid of the practice? Would she agree that pressing for greater student protections in the classroom and at home would lead to a healthier, happier, more productive student body in the future? If so, why would she not agree that civil rights for racial minorities be pushed forward too, if it meant that future generations had greater opportunities and better living conditions? There's such an aversion to discussing history that depicts the US as a willing participant in an abhorrent practice, especially one that has dictated how American society functions today. We still thrive off forced labor to this day, both at home through exploitative practices of the working poor, as well as the outsourced slavery of international trading partners using literal slave labor to produce the goods we consume. PragerU and their dedication to educating through omission is like watching the movie Pocahontas as a kid - we see the ending as some Disney-fied fairytale where John Smith sails back to England, and Pocahontas' tribe is left proud and intact, and they all live happily ever after, but even as a nine year old, you're barely aware of the Native community, but you wouldn't consider them a thriving nation living side-by-side with you in your hometown. That dissonance is jarring, and for some they'd rather stick to the movie ending and leave it at that, while other kids watch it and think, so what happened after that, and why aren't they around today? Obviously Dennis Prager is uncomfortable or unable to correctly and convincingly answer those kinds of questions.
Yeah would love to see one because i remember my history prof told us that and she basically said that most things we think of as just something eternal like shall we say calories is something that is more or less a more recent thing.
@@miat9039 White Supremacist would be mad to find out their ancestors were labeled as yellow race(reference to hair of Western Europeans) by the Ancient Greeks Aka the people they simp for 24/7,while Jews and Arabs were labeled as white by those same Greeks 🤣.
Yes, and because of the legacy of our shared history, and modern day policies, it's problematic. But I don't think the distinction of black and white or etc. is, in and of it's self, a bad thing. If it were not used to justify slavery and second-class citizenry then loaded-words would just be descriptive terms i.e. your white-skinned, black-skinned, light-skinned, brown-skinned etc., and we'd probably still use short had words. Words that held those meanings like cracker, negro, mixed, Hispanic, Latino, chink what have you. They wouldn't (necessarily) be slurs without the legacy of slavery and racial-discrimination. In fact discrimination wouldn't likely be a loaded word. I know race is a new concept, but it doesn't matter, because it's tied to our history of abuse and struggle. So while the history of race is a great educational video fro people to see, the net impact of that history on the words we use today would, likely remain very similar. People keep on inventing new racially-discriminatory, loaded-words and terms (like thug, gangster, hillbilly, redneck, white-trash, etc.). I think a video like the one you're suggesting, could have some small impact on the way people use those newer words, but there is already rigorous black, brown and white scholarship on those issues by figures like Killer Mike and in the form of documentaries on a verity of discriminatory practices.
It really is amazing (ie depressing) how just a mere five minute PragerU video can be filled with so much inaccuracy, half-truths, and blatant lies that it takes an *edited* 55 minute video by an actual historian to debunk it all. Respect and appreciation for this video and this channel.
@@imyourfriend1680 everyone knows that, and nobody is trying to deny the barbary, and/or Arab slave trade. We’re talking about the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Most people with even a rudimentary understanding of world history know about what you “found out”, and it’s not the “gotcha” you think it is. It’s called a whataboutism, and one doesn’t cancel out the other.
@@MetaDHedge28 There is a difference between conservatives and American Republicans. Unfortunately for American conservatives, PragerU is a very accurate depiction of what the Republican party has become.
Interestingly, Russia is in fact mostly in what is considered Asia geographically, although this fact hardly matters because that entire huge area has been dominated by Slavic Europeans for at least the past 200 years. Still, the "Russians are not white" argument has at times been invoked to serve particular (usually white supremacist) agendas. When Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War of the first decade of the twentieth century, white supremacists claimed that Japan's victory didn't count as a nonwhite victory because the Russians were "half Mongoloid" and thus no higher on the racial scale than the Japanese.
@@nugzarmikeladze has nothing to do with the fact that the Russian have been invaded or have incounterd by Asian step people and influenced by them. In The European part of Russia with exception of low influence from northern cities. If they may not look like it much you can say the same thing from the Bulgarian and the Hungarians lol
This is why most ppl in the black community , no matter what political stance/ social status, despise Candice Owens. She truly sells out her own community and downplays our struggles for her own personal gain whatever that may be. And what kills me the most is the fact she is a victim of racism , which has a relation to this topic, and yet she can spew out this crap.
@@quark_E yeah i’ve heard she only rlly spews out right wing things but i’ve followed her for a lil bit now and she spits out her own stuff based on how she perceives it which is my point she might b right wing biased but she speaks from her own option in support of something u get what i mean
One of my largest cringes was when Owens brought up how the US fought a war to end slavery. I'm surprised you did not bring this up. Lincoln and the north initially did not fight the war to "end slavery." They were trying to preserve the union and attested the Confederacy did not have the right to secede from the country. The issue of emancipation did not come up until three years into the war.
Also describing the civil war as the US "fighting a war to end slavery" more like "half the country rose in open rebellion over the prospect of even just limiting slavery." You don't get to just take credit for the more moral side of a civil war in your country and pretend like the other faction were utterly alien to the country and just kind of dropped out of the aether one day.
That’s right. It was a pragmatic choice. It also highlights the evil of government, but I’m sure you’d prefer we not take that lesson away. Anyone that understood the Civil War understands the government is never moral; it is violence. Period. The South was recognized as doomed prior to secession, precisely because of slavery. That big bad capitalism was destroying slavery, because it was far, far, FAR more profitable to pay one man to operate a machine than it was to buy 9 slaves, pay to feed and care for them, and pay an overseer to watch them. The South was so economically backwards that it was still behind as recently as the 1960s. The north industrialized because the incentives demanded it. Slaves were, and are now, an exceedingly unprofitable venture. They are obviously very unproductive, and because of their existence, industrialization is delayed. No slave owner would want to put a slave to work with expensive machinery; he has every reason to sabotage it. What should have happened is to let the southern Democrats go; and then watch as they become an 1860s version of North Korea. Just like Korea, blacks would be incentivized to flee to the freer nation. It didn’t happen because government is violence, that’s the only language it speaks.
@@TheSpicyLeg it’s actually far cheaper to feed a man than pay him wages, as to pay a man wages you have to pay him above the minimum whilst with a slave then you have to give them only the minimum
Even the "Slavs... All of them white" is inaccurate. In the 9th century eastern Europe would have been home to migratory people's, many of whom would have had ancestors from across Central Asia. Additionally "Slavs" weren't considered wholey white by a large portion of Western Europe until the mid-twentieth century. And the concept of whiteness as a racial category didn't exist in the 9th century. Also THAT MAP of historic slavery completely ignored the slavery of antiquity, the very basis for the Roman and Greek republics and empires which many Western chauvinists claim is the basis for their culture.
This is what always annoys me about using the modern ideas of "race" for premodern time periods. The concept of overarching "races" like "white", "black" etc didn't exist at the time, the designation of people into "races" is more a product of the early colonial era. During the Middle Ages and earlier time periods, people would have identified themselves only with their ethnic group, tribe, or *at most* a shared religion. And when race did become a thing, nobody could seem to agree on what characteristics would allow you into the "white" club, as Benjamin Franklin famously complained about the immigration of "swarthy" Germans into the US who would dillute the "white race".
@@starmaker75 less then 80 years if you were born in Germany, and your mother would have risked punishment for “Blutschande“ for having you, and if caught while pregnant with you, you would have been aborted forcefully. All this horrible shit is not that long past as we prefer it to be... and we should not pretend as if time made us immune to this.
@@hannajung7512 yeah it fucked up on how some people really didn’t wanted someone being part Slavic. Also funny my mom is Germanic(Swedish and German).
@@starmaker75 yeah, the Nazis were particularly about this. This is the part the allied forces did not speak enough about: the German genocide was not only on yews, the war in the regions east of Germany was a genocidal war, ment to erase and subdue the “Slavische Unterrasse“ (slavic under race, the Nazi term, not mine) and use the land as “living space“ for the German people. The war in England and in France was bad, but nothing compared to the horror show that Eastern Europe endured. And today white supremacists march in Russia and Poland and many other Eastern Europe countries, as if “European“ had allways included their people, too. In the nineties German Neonazis considered Slavic people still as less then, the same assheads now “greet their Russian brothers“.
@@SidheKnight Is he definitely an Arab? The province was called Arabia, but I don’t know if actual ethnic Arabs as we know now lived there, I was under the impression they moved north later, during the 600s, but I might be mistaken.
@@baronofbahlingen9662 That's what the wikipedia article says at least, that the current historic consensus is that he was ethnically arab. (And it provides a bunch of sources I haven't verified yet).
I don't even understand the point of bringing up other historical examples of slavery. Is this supposed to make it sound like actually American slavery wasn't that bad or something? It sounds like trying to defend the Holocaust by pointing out that lots of societies through history were antisemitic.
@@marcon6806 American Chattel Slavery was unique in it’s brutality in it’s short time in comparison to all other forms. Also that it was specific to 2 races and one basing their justification of it on superiority. American slavery bred white supremacy. No one cares you’re getting tired of hearing about white people’s involvement in it. Especially when a lot of white people these days don’t want to even acknowledge how bad it was. The mental part was equal to or worse than the physical. It has an effect to this day and it was by design to.
"Slavery has always existed. It is just the way of the world. Slavery worked for ancient civilizations and is working for us. There is no need to change it." You know what I call this line of reasoning? A conservative mindset.
I think she wanted to say black people but even then there are source that prove that there were black dynasty in ancient Egypt at some point. So what was her point exactly?
About a good 80% of the dynasties in Egypt where African, the rest were invading forces. Of course we can’t forget that the people south of them also adapted their culture, known as the kushites, who were probably the darkest group of Africans on the continent even today.
@@garyphisher7375 According to the genetic studies of Ramses III and his son Pentawer, both indigenous ancient Egyptians of Royal blood were tested E1B1A which is clearly a Negroid Ydna Haplogroup. Can you site your source they were Arab or are you just another racist trying to spread a narrative black people have never had or built anything?
Funny how so many people forget that Candace Owens was originally running an "Anti Trump" website...but it didn't make her any money..so she switched gears... She is the living embodiment of Grifting. Lol
@Jack McCabe Candice? Open minded? You've got to be kidding. She even got called out on Rogan for having set opinions without knowing the first thing about the subject. Her opinions are all based on the current stance of Republican supporters. She wouldn't understand nuance if several forms of it kicked her in the arse from multiple levels.
People also forget that she sued her school in a landmark case in her hometown for...WAIT FOR IT...WAYCISM. So, she literally made 💰 off of race. Making HER a race hustler.
Thank you for helping me see the fallacies that has doused PragerU. I used to watch their videos religiously (I know I know). And you helped me break out of it. You stopped me from being a crypto.
As a person with some very conservative values, Ben Shapiro, PragerU and friends all push me farther left every time they open their awful manipulative mouths.
I’m glad to hear this. I consider myself a progressive, but the recent shift in both parties have driven me to the center. It’s starting to feel like I don’t belong anywhere in either ideology. We get saturated with the loudest voices from the worst of them making it feel like the worlds gone mad.
There are two things in this world that really pet my peeve: arbitrary injustice and the perpetuation of historical falsehoods P.U. often does both of these things in the same breath
Okay but can we talk about how that last part sounded like the words of an abuser? "That's not racism, you are not a VICTIM of racism, right? Why call yourself a VICTIM, like you are WEAK or something?"
She has abusive tendencies. I grew up with women like her, and as a black male, I can verify that she has the kind of head tilt that I've seen and been witness to in MANY CHURCHES. LOTS. And they don't talk about people like her being well dressed abusives.
Yeah, I had an administrator tell me once to "stop playing the victim!" And she was an abusive cword if ever there was. And besides, I was being deferential, not a victim. They want it both ways, don't be a victim, but don't be defending yourself with any kind of bass in your voice. What? Quietly wait in the corner and nod and smile?
One of these days Prager U is going to make a video praising Woodrow Wilson and Cypher will have to do a ten part mini series consisting of three hour videos 😊
26:00 As someone with Haitian descent. When i watch this video by Candace Owens . I almost punked. And what’s worse is her fans actually beleive her. 😖😖😖 it’s insane
8:30 she talks about places where slavery existed. Doesn't mention Europe but then goes on to talk about Slavs in the next sentence 😭 27:57 Union soldiers carrying shotguns 😂😂😂
I know for a fact that Candace Owens knows better (especially with the NAACP acting on her behalf), but I think she is so deep into her grift she can't get out and has to embrace it.
"The murderous Persian empire" You mean the one with complete religious tolerance, a decentralized and autonomous provincial structure and no slavery? The one that freed the Jews from Babylon and helped them in the construction of the 2nd temple? Something ain't adding up...
Nono, that's not what the documentary 300 said, you must be clearly getting your source from a leftist history book. Otherwise, how would the Persians have employed such terrible monsters as shown in the documentary, if they were so benevolent?
@@Feminismisfornobody Specifically because they conquered their immediate neighbors, as patrolling the neighborhood and putting down slave insurrections was the primary duty of a Spartan hoplite, I would add lol
Being iranian I'm very thankful you said that we didn't have slavery back then ( or at least less of it ) and also pointing out how they want to blame the Muslims in the Prager U video, not often people actually give a crap about how good Persia was ( not perfect obviously, but not a horrible place ), Persia ( Achaemenid Empire at the time I think ) is always seen as the country who lost to Greeks
Yo when she said muslims, I said i'm done the video is about racisim, race and color not about religion and she only said muslims as if there were no slavery in christianety and judaism she is literally islamophob and she is talking as if slavery is okay she is literally stupid
She has literally made a hustle for herself by selling and regurgitating what her fellow ideological, European descendants want to hear. Actually "selling water a whale".
Loved your video. She has also made dubious claims such as the Southern Strategy & party realignment being a myth and that Hitler wasn’t a nationalist. She made these claims when speaking to some Congressional committee a few years ago, which was covered by C-SPAN. Her fans, oddly enough, hold up that appearance as an example of her “brilliance,” despite it being nothing more than a collection of poorly researched talking points.