Why Can't The Left Let Go of Slavery?
The British brought slavery to the New World and Americans ended it roughly 230 years later. Every black person descended from slaves owes a debt to their ancestors struggles. The abomination of slavery is the reason most black people are here, in the greatest country in the world. Im guessing almost every black American lives a better life than their counterparts in the modern-day Ivory Coast, where many slaves came from, and where today almost 50% of the country lives in poverty (African poverty, not American iPhone poverty), and the life expectancy for men and women is under 60 years. The poverty rate in Liberia, settled by liberated slaves, is even worse. Yet some people just cant let slavery go. Olympic hammer-tosser/headline-hustler Gwen Berry was pissed when the National Anthem was played after she won the Bronze medal and made it to the Olympic team, even narcissistically suggesting it was a set up against her. On #BNCLive @MzBerryThrows explains why she turned her back on the national anthem. She says, "If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem. The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America our blood being slain." Take a look at the lyrics. Just for fun, read that last part again while doing an impression of Jerry Seinfeld. Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps pollution! No refuge could save the hireling and slave  From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:  And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave  Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave. Berry suggested the line mentioning slaves doesnt represent black people. Shes probably right. It likely has nothing to do with black slaves in America. Berry states, If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem. The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America, our blood being slain.  No, YOURE History  Actual historians have debated the meaning of the line. Some suggest the author, Francis Scott Key, who wrote the poem turned song after the battle of Fort McHenry, is mentioning the former slaves who fought for the British in return for freedom. Some believe Key is taking a dig at the British for hiring mercenaries (hirelings) and kidnapping American sailors (slaves) and forcing them to fight for the British navy. Any way you slice it, its not about slaying slaves blood and piltering it all over the floor. Berry is either as smart as the hammer she throws or a genius trying to finagle a woke deal with Nike, which, ironically, is accused of using slave labor in China. Take a knee for that, Kaepernick. Perhaps because Nike doesnt throw deals to people who care about todays wholesale butchery that is black-on-black crime. Maybe its because slavery is, to the left, the ultimate get-out-of-responsibility-free card. How DARE you blame a 6th-generation descendant of slavery for the wildly out-of-proportion black crime rate. To some, victimhood can be very comfortable.