First Time Watching | Facts About Slavery Never Mentioned In Schools (Thomas Sowell) 

For fear of being politically incorrect. Parents need more involvement to bring history to light.

As a former teacher, I can add that many - if not most - teachers are pretty stupid. They buy into what they’re fed in college schools of “education” which put a notably Marxist twist on everything. Everything from racism to climate change is spun to fit a distinctly left-wing narrative. Most teachers have little genuine passion for knowledge or sharing their interests with a young audience aside from the promotion of social[ist] issues.

They tell yoo this slavery shit to keep peeple divided. Yoo just doo not get it at all. Yoo R being indoctrinated. America relies on peeple being divided.

@@cliffordljacksonjr8020 No such fear exists. Sowell's stuff is nonsense and does not actually come from him.

@@ondolite3789 Of course you are smarter, wiser, and vastly more enlightened than the globally respected, proven economic and historical genius, Thomas Sowell! The audacity is monumental!

Debt/wage slavery

@@woahblackbettybamalam That too, though it often walks hand in hand with trafficking like in Dubai. Funny how everyone likes to bitch about China and N.Korea's human rights records while almost completely ignoring places like Dubai, who at this very minute have thousands of slaves building their gawdy skyscrapers!

@@woahblackbettybamalam That's not Slavery. You are willingly using Money that you do not have, willingly indebting yourself in order to buy things you can't afford, then willingly go to work to pay that stuff off. You can go live off the grid, the reason why you don't is because that life is 10 times harder than working a job and taking out loans willingly. Children as young as 5 would be needed to work around the homestead and work until they died of old age if they made it that far. Debt Slavery is nonsensical. Debt is you willingly getting yourself into debt, not like they are forcing it on you like Slavery is.

Slavery exists in larger numbers today than it ever has but mainly in Middle Eastern countries.

@@briansearle6868 I agree expect the willingly aspect. It's more so about being kept ignorant of it until you are so deep into it that it seems unnatural to be without and you cling to it as if it is the natural way. And then if you figure out "going off grib" you'd have to know the system so well that you can refute when the system makes a claim to your freedom because once enough people notice the system it would fall apart dethroning those at the top of the system that benefit the most from people's ignorance.

Trafficking just means illegal trade, hence drug trafficking.

@@Sagnus1 people dont call drug trafficking "trafficking". Trafficking referes to the trade of humans hence slavery

@@jasonbelcho8609 they literally do? "Trafficking" refers to any illegal trade. That's why the phrase "human trafficking" exists.

Trafficking is selling, transporting, or importing something, anything, illegally. It could refer to whatever noun you put in front of it hence, drug trafficking, human trafficking, organ trafficking, etc.

@@jawbone78 dude ik the fucking definition of it but thats not how its used by general public

Traditional k-12 education is designed to pump out factory workers.

Divide and conquer

board of education is as f'd as all the gov

True, has nothing to do with the school itself. This curriculum is taught at both the “best” and “worst” schools.

The reason why " this" isn't taught in schools is because it's a distortion of true facts, one being the "arrival" of slavery to the African continent via The Moors...as if there had been no slavery there before then. That's just one example but the main issue is that videos like this feature so called African people using European male talking points to seduce their own ethnic group! That is what Afro people should remember, indeed, all people as the similar tactics are being used on Latino radio!

Aye, for some reason us westerners seem to view Africa as some big homogeneous whole rather than a continent with vastly different countries, cultures, histories and peoples. A Yoruba is as different from a Maasai, as a Spaniard is from a Swede!

@@BeardyBaldyBob They have the most genetic diversity of all the continents.

especially south Africa

@@BeardyBaldyBob - Uhhh, speak for yourself? This "Westerner" knows damn well that Africa is a continent with its own diversity and complexities. Don't as-seem. ;-)

@@machtnichtsseimannUgh ffs! You understood damn well the point I was making. No need to be a pedantic ass about it to try and look clever....

You should feel guilty for hating white people for this

Absolutely correct.

You're a slave to your bank and government, house payments, taxes, car licenses and insurance, nobody is free.

@@johngillespie3409 - A slave has no choice in the matter... stop pretending that the things you DECIDE to do are somehow equivalent to slavery. Stop pretending that you can't get out of those things. Those are choices you make, and things that are voted into being. Pretending that your own choices make you a 'victim', or that it's (in any way) akin to slavery... is a virtue signaling master class. Just stop.

@@Mr.Ekshin decide to stop paying rent, I don't want to pay rent, nobody does, but what happens, you lose your house. Decide to stop paying taxes, what happens you go to jail. That is slavery.

@@johngillespie3409 - Don't rent... buy a place. And if you don't want to pay the bank, don't borrow their money. If you want lower taxes, vote for it, or move someplace where taxes are lower. Better yet, move to some uninhabited place where you're beholden to noone but your own wits. You are free to make these choices. You HAVE choices, and thus, you're not a 'slave'... not even close. Stop riding that pity train. Nobody feels bad for you.

Or they just don't talk about it... Like the open slave auctions in the town square happening in Libya now (after the US backed coup outed their leader Gaddafi leaving a power vacuum). Hilary Clinton famously laughed about this when she said "We came, We saw, He Died hahahaha" It's a smaller % of the total population, but there is a higher number of humans enslaved today than there ever was in history.

Actually it’s adoption

And they don’t even care about the color of skin …. Just about the $$$ coming in😢.

Slavery is the government

​@@alive2583lol

And more accurate would be the love of power. Money is only attractive due to the power that comes with it.

Agreed. It is very strange to watch people be educated on subjects that used to be taught. It always makes me wonder just what younger generations actually believe, incorrectly, about other subjects.

Agreed. The federal government took control over the education system in the late ‘70’s then the information disappeared.

They want to erase history and rewrite it.

The government run education system is doing what it was designed to do... Produce uneducated minions to work menial jobs.

Alex Haley's Roots did a lot of damage as it distorted the truth tremendously. As young people don't read anymore, but only watch video, they do watch Roots - The Slavery's Bible - but they never READ the truth. Kids used to grow up with mom at home and a boogieman father, that would punish them if they did their mother wrong. Which kept them from running wild. They learned lots of things at home. Today both parents work. Kids are dumped at pre-school. Only humans and cuckoos do this. Every other mammal takes care of their own offspring first and for all. Even birds with their dinosaur brains take better care of their offspring. Consequence is that school has to fill the void, thinning the educational time to learn hw to read, write, do calculus, etc. Every generation gets less attention from ther parents and learns less at school. Try to find someone over 50 who can't calculate how much change to give back. If an oldy has to pay let's say, $ 10,10 with a twenty dollar bill and doesn't want a shipload of small change, he'll add a dime to what he has to pay. Now try to find a youngster to understand that. Usually they shove the dime back and look at you like if you don't understand that the twenty is enough to pay the bill. As the phones became smart, our kids became stupid.

Not just that, pretty much all of Dubai and the modern cities in wealthy Gulf states were built with a modernized form of slave labor.

Thank you for pointing that out, I've been scanning the comments to see how many people realize slavery never truly ended it just has different faces now, sadly not many people seem to know 😞 if people would look into who picks the bananas, coffee and chocolate most people would be shocked how much slave labor produced products we buy every day.

Same thing happens in Saudi Arabia when young Africans go there for work.

Like x

Shit, there are farms in the US doing this to Mexican migrant workers - seize their legal documents.

Thomas Sowell, Carl Sagan, Strauss/Howe. All should be required reading

Amen.

I disagree. Just "Basic Economics" being mandatory in k-12 ABD college would solve most of Americans economic policies. If I were god emperor I'd institute that and first aid/cpr/aed

@@justaguy2365 Walter Williams as well

Right on skeleton.....

@@manolo5042 Nah, I've heard it a number of times before. Looked it up. Apparently Spanish philosopher George Santayana coined it. His quote was “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Those who do learn history are forced to watch others repeat it. Thank you for making the point that things are in fact better than they used to be.

Yuuuuuuup! There's a LOT of historical information that seems to have been covered up and forgotten about over time! So much vital information about true events throughout history that is neither taught, discussed, or even acknowledge! This causes an extremely narrow point view, and not one based on reality.

@@AndyHoke unfortunately you are correct

😆 I'm American and I love the scene at the end of "Amistad" that shows the British shelling that slave fortress. The officer is so dry and English as he repeats the command, "Fire.....fire....fire...............fire." 👏

We should apologize for not knowing in a way. Bad behavior, even in ignorance still causes damage to others.

Under certain circumstances we ( humans) are all capable of unspeakable things

How wonderful that western cultures fought so hard and led the way against slavery.

@@AndyHoke and then we vote in presidents who help create the Libya crisis of modern day slavery.

@@faychel8383 You believe the US created slavery. Flies in the face of history dude.

@@AndyHoke and when did I say I believe the us created slavery? Or do you deny Obama helped create the crisis in Libya? Or are you just illiterate? Because even perfect admits he messed up. And how did he not bring back modern day slavery if slavery auctions are literally back? How can you not see the irony that he was voted in by our citizens who benefit from western culture? How is that to be interpreted as “the us created slavery”? Your comprehension is terrible. “US President Barack Obama has said failing to prepare for the aftermath of the ousting of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi was the worst mistake of his presidency.”

If I can re-call the only involvement of U.S troops was to evacuate American citizens before the carnage. A small deployment of United Nation peacekeepers were the only soldiers there, led by a Canadian Commander, the Western world ignored the genocide. A large number of Pakistani peacekeepers were murdered.🤔

What was weird to you? Can you explain in a bit more detail please

@@kimyanchus582 are you actually going to pretend that you know anyting about the military's involvement across the world? America is operational every single day in 134 countries worldwide. Why don't you please tell us what else is going on genius. What because you didn't hear about it, it must not be? It is amazing the way people bare their ass to society with the things that they say and don't even realize they should be embarrassed for it.

@@yrntthelibswipedofftheeart16 Because our boys "just follow orders".

america didnt exspect anyone to survive Problem a few years before american soldeirs died in a shit down helicopter during a un peace keeping operation So america didnt want to get involved in rwanda they chose to stay out of a war And gave in To the idia that the genicide wasnt their buisness to stop The ameeicans chose not to give militery suport to stopping the genicide

Literally what you're doing. You're believing this bullshit, dishonest, lying video because you believe the source, not because it contains actual truth.

@@jawbone78agree to disagree brother

@@elevatedmemories4178 I don't agree to that! 😄

@@jawbone78 it’s your right to believe what you choose

@@elevatedmemories4178 that last comment was a joke (Simpsons reference). You do you, I'll do me.

Thomas Sowell is considered an Uncle Tom by African Americans. This whole video is misleading and makes excuses for Europeans treatment of blacks. You must not know much history if you think he's great.

Sorry, National treasures sometimes tend to fluff the nation they are treasures of, there was a civil war in one new country over sessasion which can be attributed to views on slavery among other things, slavery wasn't immediately abolished because of a war, a war that wasn't totally about slavery, in a small newly created isolationist country, less than half its current size. But this gets prime position in his talk, bigged up so to speak. In fact the only mention of the stopping of slavery in the whole peice,one sentence, that is misleading about the total motives of the civil war, excludes the bigger worldwide factors and slightly perpetuates the Abe Lincoln stopped slavery misconception, especially held in the USA. Would be better if he spoke on this of world issues and the stopping of slavery worldwide, and maybe, just maybe, at least mention the country that first abolished slavery in it lands, then in it holdings, then formed a naval force at its publics expense, entirely for the prevention of slavery, impelling other countries through might and strength to stop slavery, through force, cohersion and blockade. All before Abe Lincoln was even a politician. The United Kingdom did far more to stop slavery than anyone else, but Thomas Sowell (you know, being a US national treasure) fails to even mention that none US irrelevance here, he has better videos on the subject than this, which includes the important reasons for abolition.

@@antonytye3484 This is just one small reading from his book that contains info. about slavery. He goes into more detail about how slavery was ended and who was involved in the process in other videos. You might want to check out his channel before making certain assumptions.

@@antonytye3484 try reading his books, you do realize he has many books right?

@@antonytye3484 There's a LOT he intentionally doesn't mention!!! Like when he said "back in the 1920's celebrities used to visit black cities like Harlem" for the great musical entertainment, but also because quote: "well back then it wasn't a jungle"! Um yeah perhaps it wasn't "a jungle" for them, but.... Is he really just going to pretend that monumental shit was happening at that exact moment in time he specifically pulled from? So the race riots, Rosewood, Tulsa aka black Wallstreet just aren't worth mentioning?

There were never slaves in Islam oh my god i busted my ass laughing.

England didn’t have slaves. English people participated in the slave trade individually and there were English slave owners in the Caribbean, but Slavery was outlawed in England as early as the 1200’s. There are several cases in which it was upheld in court that a slave, upon setting foot on English soil, was freed. England and the British Empire did more to end the slave trade than any other nation ever. Everyone talking about how the Empire and British colonialism was bad, we ended Slavery in every nation we colonised.

how did she react?

Boom! You history wrecked her.

@@realburglazofficial2613 So there was no slavery after 1200 what about surf them what about the king being able to kill whoever he wanted at any time Tell that to the Scotts and Irish

Not only that but when you add politics and religion to the mix everything gets worst

Resources are the roots to all evil 🤞🏽 If Africa had no Oil,gold,coal,diamonds,chrome etc All this wouldn't existed our rich soil made predators go crazee. Regardless of life there.. they had to benefit them no matter what. Luckily they succeeded only 1 black man owns a mine in Africa over 2000 + mines. 👏🏽 We paid the peace price still now we will take the blame 'we started slavery' i wish it was true but it's not. Africans before whites were enslaved by Arabs for 800 years they than joined forces with whites and handed us over 😂 let your Author keep feeding you with sweets I understand u far away from home myb it's for peace sake 🤷🏽‍♀️

Debt slavery one of the most common forms back in the day

If you buy made in China...

Thomas Sowell is paid handsomely by a racist right-wing think tank to spout their anti-black rhetoric.

Oy vey shut it down!

The biggest eye opener I found was learning 80 percent of slaves owners were Israelites. Makes you wonder why they employed whites to do the dirty work. Story of the colonialism, make whites do the dirty work so they can be blamed later on.

sad that "research" has become watching youtube videos from random sources.

@@shiftymenno At this point a random person has just as much credibility as the mainstream news...

Define "research".

If you have children, please look into the exodus institute. It’s a fully accredited online school that teaches all history. The good, bad, and ugly. They don’t follow political narratives Our daughter will be attending this upcoming year. Please do yourself, and your family this favor. God bless

That is a universal truth, from the beginning of time, and as long as there are people, will continue.

No, you haven't suffered little, tiny human. If you had then youd know that you're an evil thing, a human and you therefore must be destroyed. This is the only truth, learned by people who have actually suffered. You're soft. Easy life. Stop lying.

Sowell is not a historian, he is an economist... And the problem is his data may be sound, but a lot of his "facts" are his interpretations of his data. Definitely a "misses the forest for the trees" kind of guy.

Thomas Sowell is off when he talks about history completely off

Sowell is a certified🦝. There's a reason racist Trump supporters prop him up.

So true!! 💯

I may live a continent away and may not share a skin colour but, I care about the truth and the liberation of all peoples. I have a friend in the US and I am saddened by the shit that the media targets the community spreading fear and hate and mistrust. The media does that to all people's but it's sad to see her afraid to just go out and be herself because she shouldn't be afraid just because she was born a certain way. She is kind, smart and my life would be less if she wasn't involved with it and I keep reminding her that she can achieve anything she sets her mind to and she doesn't need to listen to anybody who tries to demoralise her just because she was born a certain way. We all deserve to live a fulfilling existence for as long as we are kind and courteous towards each other.

@@cynicalgothbrit2352 Preach it so the people is the back can hear you. Pure facts. I'm tired of the media and other organizations trying to tear us apart with bs notions of race and how you should feel about it. I just wish we could all see each other as people again instead of pawns in somebody else's narrative.

Another good book that I am reading right now is called White Gold by Giles Milton. It talks about the slave trade of white folks by the barbary pirates. It was huge back then.

@@wolfen26 I've seen research on the Irish & Scottish slaves .. B4 the black slave trade. Basically once the black slaves were brought to the US for sale .. they were sold for much less money. Eventually the Irish & Scottish were no longer bought bc they cost too much comparatively speaking. But that's interesting about the pirates but makes sense. Haven't looked into that one yet. I think I saw a lil something a while back on how they'd kidnap men looking for work & put them below to work against their will .. basically prisoners. But that's all I've seen. Thnx for the info. Something I may look into later. 👍🏼🙂

@@ramonaalvarez7559 Oh yes, even the icelandic tribes were hit. Voices of the Past has an account from a man that was captured by the corsairs and sold as a slave in the Ottoman Empire slave trade. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M2EJChRdxL0.html

Yeeess! I told my family that if black folks were the first people, then we were the first sinners and murderers too...they didn't want to hear that.

The Bible is not history. The Egyptians never enslaved the Hebrews, the Hebrews did not build the pyramids, and the pyramids were not built by slaves. THAT'S A MOVIE!

@@feelthebern7662 lol stop! Countries still celebrate holidays that began in the Bible and I'm not talking about Christmas

@@tangieshogelola6898 No one is talking about holidays, i'm talking history. and yes the first homo sapiens came from africa. they were not the first sinners because god and sin hadn't been invented yet. homo sapiens have been around for over 100,000 years. Sin was invented less than 3,000 years ago. Some countries, like Japan, don't even have sin.

@@feelthebern7662 sure thing, fascist.

I read it at that age too. It was a brutal depiction, and while the person, Kunta, may not be real, what happened and how it happened certainly was.

The issue was people took the fiction and turned it into history....nonces.

The person he’s watching is saying that the effects of slavery shouldn’t be taken so literal because this one story was written and it’s viewers took the story as fact. That’s like saying Texas Chainsaw Massacre creates a horrible image of cannibalism because so many of the viewers think the story is true. No. Just like slavery, cannibalism is bad. Doesn’t matter if a story is written about it in fiction or not.

@@TheVGCommentaryno one here has said slavery was okay because Roots was fictional. the specific portion of the Roots story that Mr Sowell is saying is completely historically inaccurate, though, is the manner in which Kunta Kinte was captured. I was a child when I watched the movie and read the book, but I believe it portrayed the white slave traders running him down and capturing him like they would capture an animal for a menagerie in those days, killing anyone who fought back and got between the hunter and his chosen specimens. Sowell simply pointed out that this could not have happened because the white Europeans had no immunity to the diseases that were in the region, so they couldn't have captured the African slaves themselves. The people were being captured and sold by other African people. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre analogy isn't a valid one, as no one has ever taken it to be a documentary film. The John Jakes North and South Trilogy or the 1619 Project that everyone thinks is historical fact all of the sudden would be better comparisons of works of historical fiction with elements of actual history thrown in around the fictional main characters' lives.

Large parts of it was also plagerised from a book called "The African " by Harold courland a white man. Hailey settled out of court and that's when he said he wanted to create a myth for his people to live by . Roots set race relations back a long way because he had claimed it as fact and that kunte kinte was his ancestor which was debunked by genealogists.

They still have them for sale TODAY

Yep. I'm about as white as it gets, and even I have ancestors that were enslaved. Particularly my Slavic ancestors....which is where the word "slavery" originally comes from. People have ALWAYS sought to control those they perceive as weak, and that will never change....and unfortunately, NO race is immune to this evil.

I think the exact quote is 'the love of money is the route of all Evil', which is what you are saying 🙂

None of this had to do with greed or the love of money, really. It has to do with mankind's love of power over another by whatever means, whether it be money, force, violence, deception, or the likes... many people may love money and the power it has to do things constructive for humanity like producing jobs that give people purpose and the ability to live a better life and provide for their family or friends or to create providence. The simplistic ways we have all been taught to view money or power that has jaded all of us in some way to have views of concepts like money, power, armaments, technology and so on as negative aren't telling of the whole story. Loving money, like guns, etc., is not inherently evil or bad or destructive as the people using these tools determine whether or not these tools can be used constructively or in a destructive manner. One might say, "How can a gun be used constructively?" As a manner of self-defense or a deterrent to those who might harm another in a destructive manner is how a gun can be constructive. Before guns, people could be easily enslaved, property seized, for any reason as simply as speech not accepted by the regional power. As for the love of money? Those who have worked very hard to accumulate wealth in order to create a better life for their family, community, town, city or nation would be an example to how using the love of money in a constructive manner even if the intention wasn't solely there initially, it may come to that as a bi-product of that said individual eventually as people can evolve over time in their own ways. Personal transformation over the span of one's life is an incredible potential for our existence. A person, may start loving money for the sake of selfishness and blindly seeks ways to accumulate money then as time passes, that person grows to see how their own greed created better lives for all of the people around them and realizes what they created formed a net good for all of those around them. Most of life is grey, not black and white. Therefore, we should be open-minded in our thoughts and actions concerning all of these concepts that have negative connotations attached to them by many in our society. Ayn Rand got it right when describing how people being self-serving and self-reliant can and does serve the greater good unintentionally. The story of the women's suffrage movement illustrates this very well. The Mormons wanting to hold political power in Utah decided to give women the right to vote mostly for selfish reasons yet the way it turned out was it empowered eventually all women to gain a foothold in American society. Now, here we are. Similarly, Lincoln primarily entered the Civil War wanting to keep the Union together over economic reasons primarily, and ending slavery was just an added feature to the winning of the war. Lincoln knew a divided America would make it easy for the European nations to corrupt the States and return them to colonial times, taking advantage of the weaknesses. Thanks for inspiring me to express my thoughts on this matter and though anyone may not agree with my ideas, I am also not set in my ways but it can lead to all of us thinking differently about a variety of topics and in no way am I saying I am right or wrong about all of these subjects, just being able to have the discussion helps me and hopefully many to expand their thinking in order to grow and evolve as better people through out this experience we call life. Thank you for understanding my lack of concern for being grammatically correct! 😉😂👍🤙😁

There were empire there like the Mail, Kongo, Songhai. European nations toppled those empires to create instability in those regions

There it is, well said

Thomas Sowell should have been the first black president and Larry Elder his VP.

Most important scholars today? No he isn't. His writings are superficial and subjective. He cherry picks and makes excuses while indulging in victim blaming. Just another right wing grifter telling racist white people what they want to believe.

@@A_Black_Sheep94 Lol

@@nathanpfeifer864 Sorry you don't think black people should be in politics. Hope you'll get over that racism one day.

@@A_Black_Sheep94 Sorry you are a dope who thinks they know me and will defend toxic bullshite to 'defend' their station in life. I know more about the black experience than you do so I'm sitting here laughing as you try to 'educate' me. Stay in your lane.

Ja even if its not true atleast a black man said it for peace sake 👏🏽

I feel ya, girl. I think when most people say they "don't see color" they mean they don't assume things slash judge people by it. It's literally impossible, unless you're blind, NOT to "see" color. LOL Much love, fam. ❤️🤍💙 Take care.

The love of money is the root of many kinds of evil --not all. Think about it.

@@timcarr6401 It is a quote from scripture. I was correcting the Manet and meaning in which it is often misquoted.

@@klb9142 1 Timothy 6:10 in modern Bible translations has it rendered like the NIV :"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."

Man made money, therefore, money is not the root

Money exposes a person's real nature.

Right on..

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was run and dominated by J | 3 | W | S

It's a misconception that Egyptians kept slaves. While there is a little evidence of the practice, there were laws on the books against it. Hollywood has misinformed a lot of people about that period of time. Even in the case of the pyramids, evidence shows that the people that built them were free Egyptians paid very well for their work.

This video was completely misleading and avoided the truth. The Egyptians did not enslave people to create the pyramids. The bible is not history.

Human nature hasnt changed.

Believe it or not they’ve found slaves likely didn’t build the pyramids. The selected crews and people that built the pyramids were believed to be chosen specifically and considered significant because of the job and paid wages and lived comfortably. Just wanted to point that out. Only because it’s incredibly interesting to learn.

The Vikings were also known for their cruelty. They were, above all, robbers. They left behind a desolation. They mostly raped and killed women and children, and they took men as slaves who they would exploit to death. The fact that the Vikings are romanticized in written history as "brave fighters and righteous conquerors" is a completely different matter.