WHY DO BLACK RACISTS HATE WHITE PEOPLE?

by Samuel Orrin Sewell

 

WHY DO BLACK RACISTS HATE WHITE PEOPLE?

 

“Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history?” - Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.

 

WHAT HAS CAUSED AFRO-RACISM

PREMISE

I’ve decided to start this article with a question for my readers, and my first question is – Which would be safest?

· A black person walking at night in a white neighborhood?

· A white person walking at night in a black neighborhood?

· There would be no difference

The most virulent form of racism in our nation is black attitudes toward white people. How in the world did that happen? The purpose of this article is to explain the history of this seldom talked about reality.

 

HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON THE PRACTICE OF SLAVERY

 

I am unaware of any culture or nation on Planet Earth that has not practiced slavery. The initiation of the fight to end slavery on planet Earth was started by the English Empire. England banished slavery in their own country, including their entire worldwide empire, in 1833. Since the United States was not part of the British Empire at the time, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

 

So, the thousands of years of the world-wide practice of slavery was ended by white people in England and America. Have you ever read about or heard of a black leader thanking white people for ending slavery? And it isn’t just that the leadership in England and America proclaimed and passed into law that slavery was illegal, but it’s estimated that over 360,000 Union soldiers gave their lives in the American civil war to insure the freedom of black people in America — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history. Many more Union soldiers lived but were horribly maimed or have lost limbs.

 

I would like to believe that the Northern veterans of the Civil War would often hear black people say “Thank you for your service”, but I doubt that ever happened. Wouldn’t it be nice for black people to simply say “Thank you for ending slavery” rather than being full of hatred, calling white people names, starting riots and supporting socialist politicians who promise free stuff?

I wrote this little essay to help me clear up my own bewilderment about racial issues. I hope it will also be useful to others.

 

My brow is furrowed, and I have question marks colliding with each other in my brain. Oh, where to begin? Research is always a good way to reduce the number of question marks!

 

SO LET’S START WITH SLAVERY

 

I think it is safe to say that most people know white people did not start slavery. Slavery is an ancient institution, as old as the human race. I suspect that every ethnic group on the planet has, at one time or another, been enslaved or owned slaves.

 

The specific instance of slavery experienced by some American blacks had its roots in black tribal chieftains selling their own people to slave traders, or selling captured prisoners of war. In fact, raiding another tribe to sell those who were captured was a commonplace way for black chieftains to acquire wealth and power.

 

The slave traders were mostly Arabs. The Arabian slave markets sold black slaves to ship owners, who then transported their “cargo” to those who used slave labor. Of all 1,515,605 families in the 15 slave states in the US in 1860, merely 400,000 held slaves (roughly one in four), amounting to 8% of all American families. So, at the apex of slavery in the United States, only 8% of American families owned slaves, and some of those slaves were owned by black Americans.

 

For example, a black man, Andrew Durnford of New Orleans, was listed as owning over seventy slaves. According to Rachel Kranz: “Durnford was known as a stern master who worked his slaves hard and punished them often, in his efforts to make his Louisiana sugar plantation a success.”
 

In his statewide study of black slaveholders in South Carolina, Larry Koger found that the majority of black slaveholders appeared to hold slaves as a commercial decision. For instance, he noted that in 1850 more than 80% of black slaveholders were of mixed race, but nearly 90% of their slaves were classified as black. He also noted that a number of small artisans in Charleston held slaves to help with their businesses. Many people, black and white as well, sold themselves into slavery. Why? Because not being a slave was dangerous, they were hungry and homeless. For some people, both blacks and whites, slavery was preferable to danger, starvation and homelessness.

Robert M. Grooms, in “The Johnson Family: African-American Owners of White and Black Slaves,” has revealed the fact that blacks owned white slaves in America. He also notes that a legal precedent for life-long slavery in America was established by a black slave owner with regard to one of his black slaves.

 

WHERE IS THE “THANK YOU” FOR ENDING SLAVERY?

 

The initial motive for the Civil War was to preserve the Union, but that soon proved to be an inadequate motivator. Freeing the slaves became the more noble reason for war. A strong Christian influence was working toward ending slavery, and the abolitionist movement was gaining political power.

White people ended slavery, and only 8% of Americans owned slaves, and they were all in the South, and some of those slave owners were black and some people saw slavery as a solution to their own desperate circumstances. In spite of those facts, modern black leaders and many leftist politicians continue to blame all white people for slavery. Could that widely disseminated false accusation account for the fact that many black people hate white people?

 

My ancestors were Christian abolitionist. We lived in the Northern state of Iowa and yet black people in my home town blame most white people for slavery and overtly or secretly hate them. My family history of being leading abolitionists did nothing to ameliorate their hatred of me because I was white.

Black chieftains sold black slaves to Arabs. Arabs sold those slaves to slave traders. Slavery was a fact of life. Even free black Americans owned black and white slaves. Black Africans and Arabs made slavery possible. White Americans stopped slavery. Where is the gratitude on the part of blacks toward white abolitionists?

 

So, in summary, white people had a small part in supporting slavery in America. White people had a very large part in ending slavery. Blacks have not expressed their gratitude to white people!

 

Opening question answered –

 

The leaders, black community leaders and liberal and democratic politicians are responsible for black racism aimed at white people.