Paul Gilroy - What really ended slavery?

speech at debate 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade -- what really ended slavery? orgainsed by the Socialist Workers Party. Meeting was so full around 100 people had to be turned away

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[mikeyb1138]

400 years of SLAVERY (THE MYTH) 1607 1st state VIRGINIA + 400=2007? 1617 slavery starts + 400= 2017? 1776 Americas Independence + 400=2117? 1865 slavery is Abolished + 400=2265? hmmm how about.. 1865 - 400=1465? Columbus is only 14yrs old? 1776 - 400=1376? Columbus isnt even born 1617 - 400=1217? The Crusades?? 1607 - 400=1207? Ummmm "Medieval Times"??? DID I MENTION in 1808 England and America OUTLAWED SLAVE SHIPS..3 years later FRANCE..and by 1817 SPAIN TOO.

[adycousins]

The enslavement of africans by Europeans began in the mid 1400's and continued until around 1860's - thats about 400 years. You are a racist, and a revisionist. You're blocked. Now fuck of back to your Klan meetings.

[WONDAWOMAN]

The Black Panthers were not a Terrorist group. The FBI & CIA told you that they were because they actually had the balls to stand up to them & fight for the equality & rights & dignity of black people. Terrorist groups don't orchestrate breakfast programs so that children don't go to school hungry. Who were they terrorizing? The cops? The Black community was never terrorized by the BPs, they were HEROES INDEED.

[timetochilli]

i might add to gilroys points by saying muslims need to start a revision of their history and teach their children about their involvement in slavery and slave trades

[timetochilli]

@WONDAWOMAN some black panthers and the nation of islam collaborated with the kkk to segregate blacks mor ebecause they were more about black nationalism and segregation instead of martin luther kings version of equality and intergration. im actually writing a paper on it

[DrCruel]

@adycousins Actually the enslavement of people - Europeans, Africans, and Asians - was going on in the Muslim world long before the Europeans started trafficking in African slaves. Likewise, there were plenty of White European serfs in Europe when these Europeans bought into the Muslim slave system (which, incidentally, still exists).

To answer the question, it was industrialism made possible by capitalism that ended slavery. It is Marxism, especially in the PRC, that is bringing it back.

[mrhenryleopard]

@socamaestro

"You' obviously lack the mental capacity to see the distinction between slavery and the "slave trade",, or to decipher a simple url"

And you're no genius either, hence the reason why you put an apostrophe at the end of "you" and put in two commas after "slave trade".

"The racist targeting of people of African descent for incarceration is a perpetuation of slavery, and itself a form of CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR,...and MUST END!!"

Here we go again...

[socamaestro]

@mrhenryleopard

You' obviously lack the mental capacity to see the distinction between slavery and the "slave trade",, or to decipher a simple url:

hrw-dot-org/sites/default/file­­­­s/reports/us0508webwcover-d­o­t­-­pdf

Go get an education, sonny; you're making no sense.

The racist targeting of people of African descent for incarceration is a perpetuation of slavery, and itself a form of CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR,...and MUST END!!

hrw-dot-org/sites/default/file­­­s/reports/us0508webwcover-do­t­-­pdf

[mrhenryleopard]

@socamaestro

"Deal with the FACTS and STATISTICS and stop wasting other peoples' time with discussions about personalities and motives"

The motives of a Jesse Jackson follower are considerably biased. They'll twist facts and "statistics" in order to gain support.

I.E. The woman in the video who offered very little evidence of anything other than the past.

"And you can't ignore the past"

And you can't live in it either. Slave trade ended centuries ago. Just so you know...

[socamaestro]

@mrhenryleopard

Deal with the FACTS and STATISTICS and stop wasting other peoples' time with discussions about personalities and motives. (She dis and she dat...) And you can't ignore the past, since the conditions of incarceration are not much different from the forced servitude plantation system.

The racist targeting of people of African descent for incarceration is a perpetuation of slavery, ,...and MUST END!!

hrw-dot-org/sites/default/file­­­s/reports/us0508webwcover-do­t­-­pdf